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Subject: Canada-US Border Conference: registration open
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 22:22:40 +0000
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From: C.J.Barter [[log in to unmask]]
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Registration is now OPEN for "Straddling Boundaries: Hemispherism,
Cultural Identity and Indigeneity", the inaugural international
conference of the Culture and the Canada-US Border research network.

May 24-26 2013

Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

KEYNOTES: Margaret Noodin, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Guillermo Verdecchia

For more details and to register, go to:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/algoma.html


<http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/algoma.html>
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"Straddling Boundaries"

Where border studies in North America has hitherto focused primarily on
US engagement with Mexico to the south, the CCUSB network seeks to shift
border discussion North to the 49th parallel, and to investigate the
representation of the border in both American and Canadian culture and
cultural production.

As part of a series of CCUSB events, this conference will intervene in
familiar border discourses, which have expanded out of the social and
political contexts of the US-Mexico border, while the Canadian border
with the USA has tended to be overlooked-prior to 9.11 at least-as
'passive'. The conference will be an opportunity to develop further
border-specific conversations within Hemispheric and Transnational
Studies, drawing attention to the ways in which cultural production
at/on the Canada-US border both corroborates and unsettles that
narrative of 'passivity', and highlights the nuances and exigencies of
US-Canadian relations, as well as Canada's unique place in the cultural
history of the Americas.

Algoma University is a small progressive university in Northern Ontario
overlooking the Canada-US border, providing an ideal location for the
staging of this conference. The strategic location of the Twin Cities of
Sault Canada and Sault Michigan on the St. Mary's River is the site of a
rich international history linked to border issues, including those
surrounding indigeneity and the border, the cross-fertilization of
cultural identity, and the culture and 'architecture' of post-9/11
security and surveillance. The Algoma campus is located on the site of a
former Indian residential school, and now includes Anishinaabe programs
through Shingwauk Education Trust. For the 2013 CCUSB conference we will
have the option of accommodation on site so that participants can enjoy
the campus. For further details, visit: http://www.algomau.ca


Catherine Barter
Research Network Administrator | "Culture and the Canada-US Border"
School of English, University of Kent, CT2 7NX