We are pleased to announce that the submission portal for the 2025 CASCA Conference (May 7-19, 2025 in Montreal) is now open. Please note that the deadline for submissions of proposals (for panels, individual papers, roundtables, and posters) is January 12, 2025. More information…
We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of Culture, CASCA’s biannual and bilingual electronic newsletter. This issue, entitled “50th Anniversary of CASCA”, is composed of a special publication co-edited by Christine Schreyer and John Wagner, about 50 years…
The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus Professor at the Université Laval Department of Anthropology, where she taught for more than 30 years. Since 1982, she has…
We are very happy to let you know that the new issue of Anthropologica 66.1 is now available on our website. The issue includes the thematic section “Global Vaccine Logics” with special guest editors Janice Graham and Oumy Thiongane. Congratulations to the…
Dear CASCA members, We are now welcoming nominations and self-nominations to fill out five vacant positions in the CASCA executive board starting in May 2025. The positions available in this coming cycle are President-Elect, Treasurer, Francophone Member at Large, Communications…
Culture is CASCA’s bi-annual and bilingual electronic newsletter. We are currently accepting articles and discussion pieces, news items, event announcements, and book notes for the Fall 2024 issue. In this issue of Culture, we invite CASCA members to continue the…
Over the past year, the CASCA Labour Committee has been conducting a research project on precarious labour in Canadian anthropology. This is an issue with great importance for our scholarly association and the discipline as a whole. Our preliminary report,…
The CASCA Executive supports the CASCA 2024 LOC statement, "A statement from the CASCA 2024 Conference Local Organizing Committee in our support for student protestors,” as posted in the conference website.
Two members of the CASCA Executive Committee will finish their terms at the May AGM: Emma Varley will step down as Past-President, and Rine Vieth will finish their term as MAL Anglophone. We thank them both for their passion for…
Dear colleagues, The CASCA warmly invites applications from members to serve as the next Chair or Co-Chairs of the CASCA Medical Anthropology Network! Especially welcome are medical anthropologist candidates with a history of CASCA membership and involvement. Led by Co-Chairs Dr. Pam Downe and Dr. Sylvia…