Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) invites panel and/or paper proposals for its upcoming 28th conference on the theme of “Ethnic Dynamics and Immigration in a World in Flux”. There is little doubt that the world we are living in is going through a major transformation, driven by powerful economic, political, cultural, and social forces, and reflected through many unprecedented developments at global, regional, national, and local levels. This includes new wars, economic rivalry, cyber-attacks, redrawn political maps, electoral surprises, the rise of populism, new resistance movements, new technology, and so on. Some have begun suggesting new names for this emerging world, from ‘new world order’, to ‘cyber world order’, to the ‘post-liberal era’, and so on. This transformation has had undeniable implications for international Immigration, as well as race and ethnic relations, in many different countries, including Canada; and it calls for new theorizing efforts to understand it and to ameliorate the serious problems that come with it.
October 9-10, 2026
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta
Call for Proposals: March 1, 2026