Central European Association for Canadian Studies - Association d'Etudes Canadiennes en Europe Centrale

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Welcome to the website of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies

A bit of history

The CEACS brings together university teachers, researchers and students from the Central European region (interpreted broadly) who are doing work related to Canada. It traces its roots to the first meeting of Canadianists from this part of Europe in Budmerice, Slovakia, in May 1995 and the organization of the 1 st International Conference of Central European Canadianists in Brno, the Czech Republic, three years later. For the next five years, a Central European Steering Committee for Canadian Studies guided the activities of Canadianists in the region, leading up to the foundation of the association in the summer of 2003. The first CEASC general assembly was held on 2 May 2004, and less than a month later the organization was admitted to the International Council for Canadian Studies as an associate member.

Current activities

At the present time the association has around 165 members, coming from Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia and Slovenia; a few individuals from from a scattering of other countries. Within each country, a wide range of activities is carried out by individual universities and centres and at the national level. The CEACS/AECEC executive bodies help to coordinate these activities, providing information for all members through a webpage and listserve and devising a wide range of new initiatives for the region. Every three years the association holds a major international multidisciplinary conference. It is also responsible for the publication of the proceedings of these conferences as well as of the annual Central European Journal of Canadian Studies. Information about activities of the CEACS as a whole as well as what is happening in the various countries in the region can be found on this website.

Organization and official bodies

The CEACS operates on the basis of its Constitution, which can be found by clicking here. Two bodies guide the association’s activities, the Executive Council and the Executive Committee.

The day-to-day affairs of the association are the responsibility of the Executive Committee, made up of the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer as regular members, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Central European Journal for Canadian Studies as a non-voting member.

President: János Kenyeres (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), adbenna@mikroweb.hu

Vice-President: Diana Yankova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) yankova@nlcv.net

Secretary: Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), blake.jason@guest.arnes.si

Treasurer: Don Sparling (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), sparling@rect.muni.cz

Editor-in-Chief: Katalin Kurtosi (University of Szeged, Hungary), kurtosi@hung.u-szeged.hu

The Executive Council, which meets once a year and is made up of representatives from virtually all the countries in the region, sets the main policies of the association and acts as a check on the activities of the Executive Committee. The current membership is as follows :

Bulgaria: Reni Yotova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria), reni_yotova@hotmail.com

Croatia: Evaine Le Calve-Ivicevic (University of Zagreb, Croatia), levaine@hotmail.com

Czech Republic: Petr Kyloušek (Masaryk University, Brno), kylousek@phil.muni.cz

Hungary: Judit Molnar (University of Debrecen), molnarj@tigris.klte.hu

Romania: Rodica Albu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania), rr_albu@yahoo.co.uk

Serbia and Montenegro: Vesna Lopicic (University of Nis, Serbia), lovevuk@bankerinter.net

Slovakia: Maria Rupprechtova (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia), maria.rupprechtova@fphil.uniba.sk

Slovenia: Michelle Gadpaille (University of Maribor, Slovenia), michelle.gadpaille@uni-mb.si

Membership

Members of the association are grouped in “national chapters”, each of which selects the country’s representative on the Executive Council. Individuals wishing to become members of the CEASC should get in touch with their representative. The application form for membership can be found by clicking here.

Enquiries

Enquiries concerning the CEACS should be sent to the CEACS: ceacs@phil.muni.cz.