Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border, by CCUSB co-investigator Gillian Roberts, is now available from McGill-Queen's University Press. From MQUP: The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border. But in contemporary Canadian culture, the border has multiple meanings, and imbalances of cultural power occur both a... More
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Registration is now open for Theorising the Canada-US Border, a two day CCUSB symposium taking place 15-16 May, 2015, in Paris, France. The symposium is the last of a three-year series of CCUSB events, which have taken place in London, Algoma, Niagara Falls, Nottingham and Calgary. To find out more information and to register for the symposium, please visit the website, here: http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/paris/ The event is free to attend and refreshm... More
Proposals are invited for a interdisciplinary conference, Canada in the Americas, to be held October 2 and 3 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Papers should address the relationships of Canada to those spaces and territories normally considered as belonging to Latin or South America and the Caribbean. Possible topics include the flow of cultural influences and artefacts between Canada and other regions in the Americas, patterns of North-South migration, ... More
16th December 2014
The 50th Annual Conference of the Canadian Sociological Association will be held from Monday, June 1 through to Friday, June 5, 2015 as part of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, this year taking place at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario. The Call for Abstracts is now open. Full details here: http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-conferences/call-for-abstracts/ CCUSB... More
CFP: Queer Frontiers in Canadian and Québécois Literature. The concept of frontier is most productive in thinking about queer experience. The spatial frontier separates the invisibility of private intimacy from the visibility of public life; the freedom and security of queer districts (for instance, the Village in Montreal, Church Street in Toronto, and Davie Street in Vancouver) from the h... More