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
Calls for Papers/Other Conferences
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
CCUSB SYMPOSIUM: Theorising the Canada-US Border University of Kent at Paris, 15-16 May, 2015 Border theory tends to be associated with the multiple strands of mestizo/a lived experience in the Mexico-US borderlands. But how far can site-specific border theory travel, even within North America? To what extent do the insights of Mexico-US border theory—including notions of hybridity and the accommodating spaces of los intersticios in the borderlands&#x... More
9th September 2014
Editor in Chief: Prof. France Houle, Université de Montréal, Canada Email: ijmbs.editor@gmail.com The International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (IJMBS) is pleased to announce a call for papers for its third issue in 2015. IJMBS aims to bring together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners to advance knowledge and improve practice and methodologies in a broad range of issued related to migrat... More