Annual Report of the Centre for Canadian Studies (2025)

This document summarizes the activities of the Centre for Canadian Studies for the year 2025. The Centre is administered by a board of five members who meet three times a year.

The Battle of Eccles Hill. This illustration features men of the 50th volunteer battalion in battle against members of the Fenian Brotherhood.

The Battle of Eccles Hill. This illustration features men of the 50th volunteer battalion in battle against members of the Fenian Brotherhood. Online at Canadian Military Heritage, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

1. Activities of the Centre

The Centre has been part of a collaboration between NILAS (Nordic Institute for Latin-American Studies, Stockholm University) and SINAS (Swedish Institute for North-American Studies, Uppsala University) that began in 2023. The goal of this collaboration is to organize joint activities, including conferences, workshops, and publications. A joint workshop for PhD students was held on 18-19 March 2025 at Uppsala University and it will go on in March 2026.

The Centre has had contacts with the Swedish Authority for Higher Education regarding the preparation of a visit by the Swedish university rectors to Canada, which will take place in March 2026.

The Centre also contributed to disseminating research outcomes through the publication of four articles in The Conversation:

  1. Premat, C. (2025). How Mark Carney and King Charles understand the power of performance. The Conversation.
  2. Premat, C. (2025). Malgré Trump et l’inflation, la dualité linguistique demeure un enjeu dans la campagne électorale. The Conversation.
  3. Premat, C. (2025). “Kuei, je te salue » : il n’y a pas de réconciliation possible sans récit partagé. The Conversation.
  4. Premat, C. (2025). ”Pas dans ma cour » : les deux faces du nimbyisme québécois. The Conversation.
  5. Premat, C. (2025). Cent quarante ans après sa pendaison, le métis Louis Riel divise. The Conversation.

2. Summer Course 2025

In its fifth edition, the summer course “Introduction to Canadian studies” was held. 51 students were enrolled, and 20 students took their credits, which shows the constant interest in this course.

3. Conferences

  • Utrikespolitiska institutet, ”Kanada – Europas nya bästis?”, 10 april 2025,
  • “Mischief and Trans-Indigeneity: Rethinking Indigenous Narratives through Kent Monkman’s Miss Chief Eagle Testickle”, Conference in Montreal (Décoloniser la comparaison: Lectures transautochtones des littératures contemporaines du Canada et du reste des Amériques, 22 May 2025)
    https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.30762104
  • The international conference of 17-18 June 2026 (10th anniversary of the creation of the Centre for Canadian Studies) has been announced and will have around 20 participants from Canada, France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Italy. A specific event will be organized with the cooperation of the Canadian embassy in Sweden.

4. Publications

5. Interventions in media (covering of the Canadian election)

Last updated: 2025-12-17

Source: Department of Romance Studies and Classics

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