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New blog post: Daniel Macfarlane on border waters and competing nationalisms: http://ccusb.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/guest-post-daniel-macfarlane-on-border-waters-and-competing-nationalisms/ Daniel Macfarlane is a visiting scholar for 2013-14 in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. He was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies at Michigan State University for 2012-13. He received his PhD in History in 2011 from the University of Ottawa. In this guest post,... More

Call For Papers Conference website This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most seminal events in modern American poetry, the Vancouver Poetry Conference 1963. Following the publication of Donald Allen's prescient The New American Poetry in 1960, Warren Tallman and Robert Creeley gathered together a number of the New American poets (including Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Allen Ginsberg) in Vancouver for three weeks of poetry rea... More

University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Graduate School Inaugural Conference for Academic Year 2013-2014 Writing Beyond Borders   The University of Manchester, 20th September 2013   Opening Keynote Speaker: Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus (Religion and Theology, Manchester) Closing Keynote Speaker: Dr Claire Chambers (English Literature, York) This conference aims to examine the ways in which reading, writing and researching li... More

Call for Proposals, Food Across Borders CALL FOR PAPERS Food Across Borders: Production, Consumption, and Boundary Crossing in North America Recent criticism of our global food system has obscured a longer, and still healthy, tradition of food cultivation and circulation among nations.  Our own national diets are a product of long-existing agricultural empires across the North Ameri... More

Second international Culture and the Canada-US Border conference University of Nottingham, 20-22 June 2014 Keynote Speakers: Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo Call for papers The Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network is pleased to invite proposals for papers or panels addressing topics related to cultural production, c... More