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With the recent critical and commercial success of the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, and the newly released adaptation of Alias Grace, myriad audiences are (re)discovering Canadian Margaret Atwood. This rediscovery follows on the heels of Alice Munro’s 2013 Nobel prize for literature, and suggests that conditions are favourable for reinvigorating an interest in Canadian women’s writing that goes beyond the established, now-canonical writers like Atwood and Munro.

ACSUS is delighted to share with you the news that two of its nominees were awarded 2017-2018 Graduate Scholarships from the International Council for Canadian Studies.  Our recipients of this prestigious scholarship are:

Christopher Green, of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)  for  Modern Northwest Coast Native Art, 1960-1990.

The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University invites applications for a non-renewable two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Applicants should have a recently completed Ph. D., or be near completion by the time the appointment takes effect on 1 July 2018, subject to budgetary approval. Prospective candidates should have an active research program in a field relevant to Canadian Studies.

The Mid-Atlantic-New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS) is currently accepting papers from all academic disciplines for the 37^th Anniversary Conference to be held at the Conference Center at Lake Placid, New York between October 26 and 27, 2018. More information on the conference will be available at www.maneccs.org. The conference hotel is the Lake Placid Hampton Inn & Suites at Hilton.

The ACQS is thrilled to announce an Emerging Scholars Colloquium to be held in conjunction with its 2018 biennial convention.  With the participation of the Association Internationale des Etudes Québécoises (AIEQ), we plan to host a pre-convention series of panels for graduate students whose research touches on Quebec, Francophone Canada, and Franco-America.  Acceptance into this colloquium is competitive, and the scholars chosen will benefit from close connections with other graduate students as well as from mentorship from senior scholars who will be affiliated with the colloquium.