CASDW | Past Conferences

Every year in late May-early June, CASDW organizes a bilingual, 2- to 3-day conference at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (formerly known as The Learneds). The Congress itself is organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Here you will find links to the programs and Web sites of some of the past conferences.

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Past Conference Programs

Year	Themes	Location	Program Chairs	Keynotes
2009	The Territoire/Places of Writing Studies in Higher Education: Canadian and International Perspectives. See the conference program [PDF]	Carleton University, Ottawa	Heather Graves and Roger Graves, University of Alberta	Judy Segal, University of British Columbia; Chris Thaiss, University of California-Davis; Kay O'Halloran, National University of Singapore
2008	Writing Beyond Borders—Writing Studies Across Disciplinary and National Borders See the conference program [PDF]	University of British Columbia, Vancouver	Heather Graves and Roger Graves, University of Alberta	Anthony Paré, McGill University Anne Beaufort, University of Washington-Tacoma Vijay Bhatia, City University of Hongkong
2007	Writing in Changing Communities--Communities Writing Change See the conference web site [HTML]	University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon	Doreen Starke-Meyerring, McGill University	Janet Giltrow, University of British Columbia Charles Bazerman, University of California Michele Knobel, Montclair State University, & Colin Lankshear, James Cook University, Australia
2006	Writing in the Knowledge Society See the conference web site [HTML]	York University, Toronto	Doreen Starke-Meyerring, McGill University	Catherine Schryer, University of Waterloo Ken Hyland, University of London, UK Jeff Grabill & Bill Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University
2005	Paradaxes of Citizenship See the conference program [HTML]	University of Western Ontario, London, ON	Amanda Goldrick-Jones, University of Winnipeg	Carl Herndl, Iowa State University
2005	Communicating Knowledge from the Social and Human Sciences to the Public: Perceptions, Practices, and Perspectives (A Special Interdisciplinary Conference) See the conference web site [HTML]	University of Western Ontario, London, ON	Céline Beaudet, Université de Sherbrooke; Pam Grant-Russell, Université de Sherbrooke; Doreen Starke-Meyerring, McGill University	Greg Myers, University of Lancaster John Willinsky, University of British Columbia
2004	Confluence:Ideas, Identities, Place See the conference program [PDF]	University of Manitoba, Winnipeg	Amanda Goldrick-Jones, University of Winnipeg	Laura Gurak, University of Minnesota
2003	Conflict and Cooperation See the conference program [DOC]	Dalhousie University, Halifax	Céline Beaudet, Université de Sherbrooke	Lil Rodman, University of British Columbia Mary Jane Curry and Theresa M. Lillis, The Open University (U.K.)
2002	Challenging Boundaries See the conference program [DOC]	University of Toronto	Céline Beaudet, Université de Sherbrooke	Christine Räisänen, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
2001	Language, Culture and Society: Text in Social Context See the conference program	Université Laval, Québec	Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University	Rebecca Burnett, Iowa State University
2000	See the conference program	University of Alberta, Edmonton	Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University	Heather Silyn-Roberts, University of Auckland, New Zealand

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