With special thanks to Dr James Kennedy and the Centre for Canadian Studies at Edinburgh University, the BACS Council is delighted to confirm the details of the 50th Anniversary Conference being held in Edinburgh from 24 to 26 April 2025.
BACS 2025 explores the challenges and the opportunities facing Canada at the beginning of the 21st century. The past 50 years, for instance, have been pivotal in Canada: multiculturalism is now entrenched and a defining Canadian characteristic, sovereignty referenda in Québec have changed the political landscape, and Indigenous resurgence places Canada’s first peoples at the heart of the national conversation. More, the very real challenges of climate change for all Canadians, but most especially for Arctic peoples, and Canada’s settler-colonial legacies continue to shape contemporary realities.
With a view to exploring these, among other social, political and cultural realities, ‘Canada: Past, Present, Future’ invites reflections not only historical, but also on how Canada will move forward in the coming decades in response to challenges and opportunities – domestic, climactic and geopolitical.
Conference programme | The draft conference programme is available at this link.
Registration | Registration is via Eventbrite using this weblink.
To register for the conference please click on the Tickets tab and choose from the following options:
- Conference package (except conference dinner) | £220.00 (£110.00 concessions)
- Conference day rate, Thursday 24 April 2025 | Free
- Conference day rate , Friday 25 April 2025 | £120.00 (£60.00 concessions)
- Conference day rate, Saturday 26 April 2025 | £100.00 (£50.00 concessions)
- Conference dinner | £55.00
- BACS membership for non-attendees | £10.00 (£5,00 concessions)
- BJCS 2025, online only | £25.00 (£12.50 concessions)
- BJCS 2025, print and online | £50.00 (£25.00 concessions)
Please note:
- Conference registration includes BACS membership for 2025. Membership can also be purchased via Eventbrite for anyone not attending the conference.
- The British Journal of Canadian Studies can be purchased for a reduced rate via Eventbrite.
- Accommodation is not included in the cost of the conference. For accommodation suggestions please see below.
- Attendees entitled to the concessions rate include students, retirees and the unwaged.
- PhD students and early career scholars (within 3 years of their PhD) who are presenting a paper at the conference are also entitled to the concessions rate and can claim reimbursement of the remaining cost of the conference after they have delivered their paper.