ICCS lecture | Jan. 15 | 16:00 CET

We kindly invite you to the second ICCS lecture this academic year, presented by Dr Geneviève Susemihl, on Thursday, 15 January 2026 | 16:00 CET/ 07:00 PT/ 10:00 ET, virtually via Zoom. The lecture is co-organized with the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking countries. Dr Susemihl will be speaking about her book Claiming Back Their Heritage: Indigenous Empowerment […]
Highlights from the 10th PACS Congress

On September 17-19, the University of Silesia in Katowice hosted the 10th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. An international community of Canadianists met to exchange ideas, engage in debates, and share their exciting and diverse research in the field of Canadian studies. The overarching theme of this year’s congress—“Healing, Well-being and Care: Canadian perspectives”—invited scholarly reflections on […]
Call for applications: ICCS-CIEC awards and scholarships

We invite you to submit applications for the ICCS-CIEC competitions. Details for each open competition can be found under “Scholarships and Awards“. All required documents (in English or French) should be sent to PACS by email (ptbk@wa.amu.edu.pl) by November 3, 2025. We would like to remind you that ICCS-CIEC does not accept applications from individuals. […]
Recruitment for the webinar series “What is happening in Canada?”

On behalf of the International Council for Canadian Studies, we would like to invite all MA and PhD students in Canadian Studies to participate in the webinar series organized by Dr. Jean Michel Montsion at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, Toronto, with the participation of the Centre for Indigenous and Critical […]
Festival of Canadian Cultures – student and doctoral scientific conference

The American Studies Student Association of the Jagiellonian University cordially invites you to the eleventh edition of the Festival of Canadian Cultures and the student and doctoral scientific conference entitled Buy Canadian / By Canada: Canadian National Identity and the Export of Canadian Values. The event will take place on 4–6 November 2025 at the […]
Lecture by Dr. Lindsay Thistle on national contexts in Early Canadian and Irish plays about WWII (Zoom, June 23)

PACS is happy to share the invitation to the lecture by Dr. Lindsay Thistle organized by Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’Etudes Canadiennes. Title of the lecture: “But There’s Always a War Somewhere:” National Contexts in Early Canadian and Irish Plays About WWII The lecture will take place on Zoom, June 23, 2025, 11-12 EST. Meeting ID: […]
10th PACS Congress

On behalf of the organizers, it is our pleasure to invite you to the 10th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. The Congress will take place on September 17-19, 2025, at the University of Silesia in Katowice. The theme of the Congress is “Healing, Well-Being, and Care – Canadian perspectives.” Read the Call […]
Professor Cheryl Suzack at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia in Katowice

In April 2025, the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia in Katowice, along with the Trans-Indigena Research Team, will host Cheryl Suzack (Batchewana First Nations), Professor of English & Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts & Science and Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her research focuses on American and Indigenous law […]
Professor Anna Branach-Kallas elected President of the International Council for Canadian Studies

It is with great pride and joy that we inform you that on June 14, 2024, prof. dr. hab. Anna Branach-Kallas–a long-time president of PACS and a renowned scholar–was elected President of the International Council for Canadian Studies, “a not-for-profit organization composed of 23 member associations and 5 associate members in thirty-nine countries, dedicated to […]
New book by Joanna Antoniak

It is with great pleasure that we inform you about the release of Joanna Antoniak‘s monograph Faces of Immigrant Fatherhood: Portrayal of Immigrant Fathers in Selected Asian-Canadian Diasporic Fiction (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, 2024). Joanna Antoniak’s Faces of Immigrant Fatherhood is an attempt to determine how immigrant families – and immigrant fathers in particular – […]