ACCUTE Conference 2010

Page last updated March 5, 2009

The draft programme for the 2010 conference is now available. Conference participants and session organizers are asked to check their entries for accuracy and for scheduling conflicts, and to report any problems to the ACCUTE office before March 12th.

The CFPs for the ACCUTE general sessions, the member-organized sessions, the joint association-organized sessions, and the Christianity and Literature sessions are now on the website. Click here for the 2010 Call for Papers.

The 2010 ACCUTE conference will be held at Concordia University, May 28-May 31, in conjunction with the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Each year the Congress has a special topic. For 2010 the theme is “Connected Understanding – Le savoir branché.” While ACCUTE will feature special sessions addressing the Congress theme, we welcome proposals for sessions, and paper/proposal submissions, on a wide variety of topics.

Information on the ACCUTE conference is provided on this website.

Please visit the Federation website for Congress information.

About the Conference

Each year ACCUTE organizes a conference featuring nationally and internationally recognized scholars, and papers by researchers from many parts of Canada. This conference takes place at the annual meeting of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (formerly known as the meeting of the Learned Societies). The Congress brings together scholars, teachers, administrators and graduate students associated with more than 100 scholarly and professional associations.

ACCUTE's conference usually runs for four days, and features multiple sessions in a wide range of fields, from Medieval Studies to Postcolonial Literatures. The program also regularly includes sessions on professional and pedagogical concerns, as well as joint sessions with a number of other scholarly associations.

ACCUTE's Annual General Meeting takes place at its conference, and is open to all members in good standing. Major policy initiatives and changes in administrative structures, budgetary policies, and ACCUTE's constitutional mandate are discussed at each year's AGM.

ACCUTE’s annual Call for Papers appears in the September Newsletter and CFPs are also posted on the website. There are four categories of CFPs:

  1. The “general” ACCUTE call for papers. All papers/proposals falling within the mandate of the organization, or addressing the interests of its members, will be considered. Submissions are made to the ACCUTE office, following the procedure described in General CFP.
  2. Member-organized sessions on special topics. Submissions are made directly to the organizer of the session, following the procedure described in Member-Organized Sessions.
  3. Joint-organized sessions, proposed by another scholarly organization, usually (but not always) another member-society of the Federation, meeting concurrently at the Congress. Submissions are made to the officer/organizer of the sponsoring organization, following the procedure described in Joint Sessions.
  4. The Christianity and Literature Study Group is an affiliated society, which conducts its sessions at the ACCUTE meeting. Submissions are made directly to the organizer(s), following the procedure described in Christianity and Literature Group.

The ACCUTE conference also features Executive-Organized Sessions related to professional concerns, pedagogy, and professional skills. Occasionally there is a CFP for an Executive-Organized session, but usually the speakers participate by invitation.