CCUSB are pleased to announce that registration is now OPEN for our second international conference, “Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption and Reception Across the Canada-US Border”. The conference takes at the University of Nottingham, from the 20th to the 22nd June 2014, featuring keynote speakers Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo. You can register and pay for the conference, and book accommodation, via the Univers... More
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REGISTRATION OPEN | Security, Immigration, and the Cultures of the Canada-US Border: Saturday May 31st, Niagara Falls. The "Culture and the Canada-US Border" (CCUSB) research network are pleased to announce a second one-day workshop, on the theme of border security and immigration, to take place on Saturday May 31st 2014, at the Sheraton at the Falls Hotel, Niagara Falls, NY. The event, hosted in conjuncti... More
Crossing Borders 2014: A Multi-Disciplinary Student Conference on the United States, Canada and Border Issue Please see this Call for Papers from our partner institution, the University of Buffalo (deadline 21 Feb 2014): UBCrossingBorders2014.pdf. More
Now available from Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border, edited by Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup. From WLU Press: The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contribu... More
Tuesday 7 January 2014 10.13 GMT Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday he was confident that TransCanada Corp’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline would be eventually approved by US authorities. US President Barack Obama is set this year to decide the fate of the northern leg of the proposed project, which would carry crude from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to the US Gulf Coast. Obama is under... More