Here you will find links to the CFPs for and details about future CAAS meetings, and to previous conferences sponsored by CAAS.

Future Conferences

2023: West by Northeast

September 22-24, 2023 / Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Past Conferences

2022: Reanimations (Online)

October 28-30, 2022 / OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

Program: 2022 conference program

2021: CAAS Great Divides (Online)

October 22-24, 2021/ University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Program: 2021 conference program

2020: CAAS Symposium (Online)

October 16 & 23, 2020 / Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

Program: 2020 conference program

2019: CAAS Symposium

October 25-27, 2019 / Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Program: 2019 conference program

2018: Alternative/Mainstream

October 12-14, 2018 / St. Mary’s University, Calgary, Alberta

Program: 2018 conference program

2017: Uncertain Futures

October 27-29, 2017 / OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

Program: 2017 conference program

2016:  Homeland Insecurities

October 21-23, 2016 / Fredericton, New Brunswick

Program: 2016 conference program

2015: CAAS  sponsored four panels at the 2015 American Studies Association annual meeting

October 8-11, 2015 / Toronto

2014: American Circuits, American Secrets

Banff, Alberta / September 18-21 2014

Program: 2014 conference program

2013: Total Money Makeover: Culture and the Economization of Everything

University of Waterloo / October 24-27 2013

2012: Geographies of Promise and Betrayal: Land and Place in US Studies

York University and the University of Toronto / October 25-28, 2012

2011: The Aesthetics of Renewal

Carleton University / Chateau Laurier / November 3-6, 2011

Program: 2011 conference program

2010: Health/Care/Nation

University of Windsor / October 14-17, 2010

2009: States of Emergency: Crisis, Panic and the Nation

Centre for American Studies, University of Western Ontario / November 13-16, 2009

2008: American Legacies

Memorial University of Newfoundland / August 13-16, 2008

Program: 2008 conference program

2007: The Americas— Drawing the Lines

Montreal, Québec / November 8–11, 2007

2006: American Exceptionalism

Queen’s University / October 19–22, 2006

Program: 2006 conference program

2005: America and Violence

Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design / October 6 – 9, 2005

2003: Authenticity and Contention

University of Manitoba / October 17-19, 2003

Program: 2003 conference program