Here you will find links to the CFPs for and details about future CAAS meetings, and to previous conferences sponsored by CAAS.
Future Conferences
CFP: Remembering Percy Walton: A Roundtable on the American Studies in Canada
As we approach what looks to be a hotly contested and globally impactful presidential election in the US, many Canadians are considering with some dread the political, economic, and cultural implications of a second Trump term. As many commentators have noted, while American cultural production skews progressive, entrenched political sensibilities have lurched reactionary in recent decades, engendering a political landscape given over to right-wing populism, autocracy, Nativism, the cult of personality, misogyny, the systemic judicial rollbacks of civil rights, widespread conspiracy mongering, and the like—so much so that even a Harris victory may not signify fully resuscitated democratic norms. (And who knows how or when or whether election results will even be settled?). What might these deeply unsettling developments mean for Canadian scholars and students of American life, let alone ordinary Canadians? This roundtable on the past and future of American Studies is dedicated to the memory of the late Percy Walton (1957-2024). longtime editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. We are indebted to Percy’s unstinting advocacy for the discipline, her generous and inspired pedagogy, her unflagging feminist commitments, and her wide-ranging scholarship across many aspects of American literary and popular culture.
Organizers: Jennifer Andrews (Dalhousie) and Art Redding (York)
The call with submission info will appear on the ACCUTE page: https://accute.ca/2025-call-for-papers/
Past Conferences
2024: On Bothering (Concordia University in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke)
October 4th-6th, 2024
Program: 2024 conference program
2023: West by Northeast (Online)
September 22-24, 2023 / Online
Program: 2023 conference program
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