Registration is now open for the 2014 CAAS-sponsored conference American Circuits, American Secrets. Registration fees are as follows: Early rates (on or before Sunday, June 29, 2014) Graduate student: Registration $100 + Meal Plan $225 = $325 Regular delegate: Registration $175 + Meal Plan $225 = $400 Regular rates (after Sunday, June 29, 2014) Graduate student: Registration $200 + Meal… Read more →
Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception Across the Canada-US BorderUniversity of Nottingham, June 20-22 2014.Keynote Speakers: Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo.“Cultural Crossings” is the second international Culture and the Canada-US Border conference. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, CCUSB is an international, interdisciplinary research network dedicated to studying cultural representation, production and exchange on and around the Canada-US… Read more →
The Canadian Association for American Studies is announcing the opening of this year’s competition for the annual Robert K. Martin Prize for the best monograph written by a current member of CAAS. This year’s prize will be for books published with a copyright date of 2013. The postmark deadline for submission is 23 March 2014. All current members and those… Read more →
Organized panels and individual submissions are invited for the “American Circuits, American Secrets” Conference, to be held in spectacular Banff, Alberta, September 18-21, 2014. The deadline for proposals has been extended to February 14, 2014. Please consult the attached CFP, and see our submission guidelines at www.circuitsandsecrets.com. We welcome approaches to this timely discussion from all disciplines, fields, and historical periods,… Read more →
CAAS is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2012 Robert K. Martin book prize and the Ernest Redekop Essay Prize were announced at the 2013 conference in Waterloo Ontario. For past winners, please see the prizes page. 2012 Winners Robert K. Martin Book Prize Winner Jeannine DeLombard, for In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic… Read more →
* Deadline approaching: November 1 2013 Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/nottingham.html Second international Culture and the Canada-US Border conference University of Nottingham, 20-22 June 2014 Keynote Speakers: Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo Call for papers: The Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network is pleased to invite proposals… Read more →
On October 11-12 York University is holding a conference, “New Directions in US Studies: Re-imagining the 1950s and 1960s.” Seven panels will examine developments in the fields of history, sociology, literature, political science, as well as in art, film, and music. Professor Paul Buhle from Brown University is the keynoter. The conference also celebrates the recent establishment of a US… Read more →
Dr. Randy Martin, Chair of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts. Thursday, October 24th (time TBA). “Risk Remade: Social Logics of the Derivative” Making money for its own sake has been the watchword of capitalism for centuries. But money-making entails risks and those risks needed to be kept at bay. Finance would play the part of this… Read more →
CAAS CONFERENCE 2013 OCTOBER 24 – 27, 2013 HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO AT THE CROWNE PLAZA, KITCHENER, ONTARIO Sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies “Total Money Makeover”$: Culture and the Economization of Everything Economic models now occupy a central place in the analysis of American culture. The “hegemony of economic explanations of cultural practices” (Koritz 1999)… Read more →
We have a few important announcements we are pleased to share with you: 1. Registration is now open. Sign up here. Please note that fees go up if you register after September 15, 2013. 2. Hotel booking is now open. Reserve early to take advantage of the conference rate of $114/night plus HST, available if you book before Sept. 24,… Read more →