Health/Care/Nation

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 →

CAAS CFP: Health/Care/Nation Conference (Deadline 10 April 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS Health/Care/Nation Sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies and the University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario 14-17 October 2010 During 2009 fears of “death panels” clashed with calls for universal coverage, as President Barack Obama encountered an increasingly heated debate about health-care reform. In this moment the very definitions of the terms health and care and their… Read more →