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…
Dear CASCA members, We are very pleased to announce that this year’s winner of CASCA’s Weaver-Tremblay award is Carole Lévesque (Professeur titulaire, Institut national de la recherche scientifique). Dr. Lévesque’s Weaver-Tremblay lecture – entitled “Contributions de l’anthropologie engagée aux études autochtones :…
Dear CASCA members, We are delighted to inform you that the latest Culture Vol.18, No.1 - Sedimented Histories, Vital Trajectories/Histoires Sédimentées, Trajectoires Vitales, is out! You are welcome to check it out here. Please let us know if you have…
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Maggie Cummings (University of Toronto) and Dr. Abra Wenzel (Carleton University) for being selected as this year’s recipients of the CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence — Dr. Cummings in the permanent faculty category and Dr.…
Please join us in congratulating Carole Therrien (PhD Candidate, Carleton University) who has been awarded the 2024 Richard F. Salisbury Award, given each year to an outstanding PhD candidate, enrolled at a Canadian university, for the purposes of defraying expenses…
Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee Award 2023 Prize Announcement The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee is delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 award is Michael J. Hathaway for What a Mushroom Lives For, and the runner-up is Christopher Krupa for A Feast…