My blog post was written on Saturday just before the banquet, after two days of great panels. Alas, technological problems delayed posting to today. Enjoy! It’s hard not to notice the prevalence of masculinity at this year’s conference. On Sunday morning, I’m going to continue this trend with my paper on urban crisis and shifts in ideal manhood. My highlighting this fact… Read more →
I was a bit too ambitious, it seems, in hoping to blog every day. Yesterday (Saturday) was a full day–especially if you count the great brunch I had with some friends from London (which I do!). In the conference world, though, I saw the wonderful panel, “Crises of Race,” and then ran off to my own panel on Apocalyptic narratives…. Read more →
Jason here. The conference has begun and is already terrific! I was at the panel “Screening Emergency,” with a series of excellent papers on a wide range of films (including some gothic content, fittingly enough for Friday the 13th). We also just had our executive meeting, where we decided, among other topics, that our next conference will be in Windsor,… Read more →
Well, test blogging at this point, anyway. Over the weekend, and for a day or two after, we hope to have a series of posts, blogging the conference as it happens! Excited, aren’t you?! 🙂 I’m actually on the plane, heading to London, and getting funny looks for doing this. So, more, including guest bloggers, later. –Jason
Now available at Canadian Review of American Studies Online Canadian Review of American Studies – Volume 39, Number 3 /2009 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/thm323240524/. This issue contains:
Next week’s CFP post will be pre-empted by the CAAS conference in London, ON. I’m hoping to offer some blogs about the conference, and maybe a few attendees will help out! If you’re going to be at CAAS, and would like to blog the conference, let me know! CFPs follow:
Well, there’s nothing especially Hallowe’en-y about today’s post, but it is midterm time for many of us, and that can be scary in a lot of ways… CFPs follow.
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