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Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand
The Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ) is an interdisciplinary organization which recognizes and encourages interest in Canadian Studies and aims to promote greater understanding of Canada at all educational levels and in all disciplines. The majority of the Association's 200 members are academics engaged in researching and teaching about Canada. Support in the form of grants and awards is available for teaching and research in a number of areas, particularly the social sciences and humanities, and for work of a comparative nature. To stimulate and support interest in Canadian Studies among potential academics, the association also funds Postgraduate Travel Awards.
The association's main activities are its scholarly journal, Australasian-Canadian Studies and its biennial conferences. ACSANZ also organizes regional mini-conferences and participates in Canadian Studies conferences, seminars, and other activities conducted at various universities.
ACSANZ receives support from the Government of Canada, through the Canadian High Commission in Australia. The Government of Canada and the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) also provide a range of grants and awards designed to promote research and teaching in Canadian Studies.
The next conference will be held in Brisbane on 1-3 July 2008.
ACSANZ has so far held thirteen biennial conferences, the most recent was held in Dunedin, 11-13 April 2006 on the theme "Canada and Australasia: Globalization, nations, cultures and borders".
Other recent conferences have been held in Sydney, 23-26 September 2004 and Canberra in 2002.
ACSANZ was officially launched at its inaugural conference held at Macquarie University in 1982. It had been preceded in 1981 by the Australian Association for Canadian Studies, established by Dr. Peter Crabb (Macquarie University) and Professor Kenneth Wiltshire (University of Queensland). The association was one of the founding members of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS).
The proceedings of the first two conferences have been published as Theory and Practice in Comparative Studies: Canada, Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, 1983) and Regionalism and National Identity: Multidisciplinary Essays on Canada, Australia and New Zealand (Christchurch, 1985). The proceedings of the 1995 conference were published jointly by the ICCS and Carleton University Press as Canada-Australia: Towards a Second Century of Partnership (Ottawa, 1997). Selected papers from other conferences have been published in the Association's scholarly journal, Australasian-Canadian Studies (previously Australian-Canadian Studies).
ACSANZ Constitution
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