With an entrenched mythology related to peacefulness and cooperation, a popular global reputation for model livability (alongside being boring), and historical crime rates amongst the lowest in the world, Canada cannot be said to seethe with a sense of murderousness. Its genres of storytelling, however, conjure an alternate […]
2014 John Douglas Taylor Conference: Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies May 30 – June 1, 2014, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Call for Papers (Deadline: November 15, 2013) Cultural Studies has become a prominent concern in recent scholarship from and about Africa. Those theorizing the field of […]
Call For Papers American Circuits, American Secrets September 18-21, 2014 /The Banff Centre – Banff, Alberta in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary Meeting ofThe Canadian Association for American Studies According to a top-secret 2009 National Security Agency report leaked by now infamous former NSA and CIA employee Edward […]
*Deadline approaching: 1 November 2013* Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/nottingham.html 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 […]
The Page: Visual and Material Literature 2014 Department of English Graduate Student Conference University of Ottawa 14-16 March 2014 Robert Darnton’s 1982 characterization of the growing field of book history as “interdisciplinarity run riot” in many ways continues to describe the state of the field in 2013. […]
