Conferences

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