CAAS Conference

CAAS 2011, “Aesthetics of Renewal”: plenaries and new deadline!

We are pleased to announce the plenary speakers for the 2011 conference, “The Aesthetics of Renewal or ‘Everything Old is New Again,’” sponsored by CAAS and Carleton University: they are Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, and Anthony Stewart.  We’re very excited and look forward to some terrific conversations! We are also very pleased to announce that some more space has… Read more →

CAAS 2011, “The Aesthetics of Renewal”; Deadline 15 February 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS The Aesthetics of Renewal or “Everything Old is New Again” 3 – 6 November, 2011 Ottawa, Ontario Carleton University’s Centre for Research in American Studies invites submissions for the annual conference for the Canadian Association of American Studies to be held in Ottawa, Ontario from November 3rd – 6th, 2011. This year’s theme is: “The Aesthetics of… Read more →

CAAS 2010 Live blogging

Do you write a blog?  Are you attending Health/Care/Nation, the 2010 CAAS-sponsored conference?  If so, let us know if you would be interested in live blogging the event. If you’re tweeting, please tag tweets about the conference with #CAAS2010 so that everyone can take part in the conversation (CAAS doesn’t yet have an official Twitter account, but you can find… Read more →

CAAS 2010 – Hotel Information

Hotel registration information for the 2010 CAAS conference in Windsor is now posted on the conference website.  Hope to see you all there–and hopefully we will again find some guest and/or regular CAAS bloggers for the event–and maybe to help us update this blog more regularly afterwards? Stay tuned!

Health/Care/Nation Deadline Extended!

A quick post to say that the deadline for abstracts for “Health/Care/Nation” has been extended to April 28th!  See the CFP here: http://uwindsor.ca/caas2010/call-for-papers. For the Canadians out there, you know how important it is for our conference organizers to be able to submit as full a program as possible in our SSHRC conference-grant proposal: getting one of these grants allows… Read more →