California American Studies Association (CASA)

04/25/2022

Join us for the upcoming virtual CASA Conference, which is focused this year on research, activism and writing.
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Friday April 29th from 9am - 11am.
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Zoom Meeting ID: 856 2099 9495

https://csulb.zoom.us/j/85620999495

09/20/2021

We are starting to plan our one day CASA conference for Spring of 2022!

We are hoping to be able to hold a hybrid meeting, with both virtual attendance and in person (at CSUF) gathering as an option on Friday, April 22nd 2022 - save the date!

05/10/2019

Congratulations to our 2019 Jackie Donath Prize winner for the best paper delivered at our annual meeting by a graduate student: John Gove (San Diego State University) for his paper, “Activism on the DL: The Gay Liberation Front at San Diego State.” Bravo, too, to the runner-up, Tim Trevor (Long Beach State University) for his paper, “Fighting Dogs and American Identity: The Cultural Evolution of the Pit Bull Terrier, 1870-1920.” Honorable mention to Quinn Anex-Ries (University of Southern California), “Detached Vaginas: The Racial Effects/Affects of the Fleshlight” and Isaac Rooks (University of Southern California), “‘We Wouldn’t Stand a Chance’: A Revisionist Ecocritical Assessment of Hitchcock’s The Birds.”

04/16/2019

Thanks to all who joined us this past weekend for a very awesome CASA conference! More photos to come soon; here’s one of keynote speaker Scott Kirashige delivering his talk to a packed room Saturday morning!

02/13/2019

Our 2019 conference program is here! http://amst.fullerton.edu/casa.aspx

02/06/2019

We're getting excited for this year's CASA conference, April 12-13 at SDSU. Speakers include Gustavo Arellano Miranda, Scott Kurashige, George J. Sanchez, and Andy Wiese. Panel topics include Academic Activisms, Animal Studies, Art & Identity in California, Borderlands, California Dreamscapes, Cold War Politics, Diasporas, Hollywood Horror, Latina Feminisms, Sexuality, Science and Race, Tourism, the Los Angeles History & Metro Studies Group, and People's Guide to Orange County. See you there.

01/17/2019

Tomorrow is the deadline for proposals to CASA. We look forward to reading yours.

Friday, April 12, 2019 - 9:00am to Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 2:00amThe Program Committee for the California American Studies Association invites proposals for our annual meeting, to be held Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, 2019, at San Diego State University. This year’s theme is Localisms, ...

01/03/2019

Join us at our 2019 conference in San Diego. The deadline for proposals is January 18. Scott Kurashige will be giving the keynote address and other panelists will include Los Angeles History & Metro Studies Group and People's Guide to Orange County, among others.

Friday, April 12, 2019 - 9:00am to Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 2:00amThe Program Committee for the California American Studies Association invites proposals for our annual meeting, to be held Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, 2019, at San Diego State University. This year’s theme is Localisms, ...

11/14/2018

Great news: the keynote speaker for our spring 2019 conference will be Scott Kurashige.

Friday, April 12, 2019 - 9:00am to Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 2:00amThe Program Committee for the California American Studies Association invites proposals for our annual meeting, to be held Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, 2019, at San Diego State University. This year’s theme is Localisms, ...

09/18/2018

The call for papers for CASA 2019 is here. Our conference, "Localisms, Regionalisms, Nationalisms, Internationalisms," will be held April 12-13, 2019, at San Diego State University. Please share this call for papers widely.

Since it was founded in 1981, CASA has always been an open, inclusive regional organization devoted to promoting the field of American Studies, particularly in California. Our annual conference regularly welcomes undergraduate and graduate students, K-12 educators, college and university faculty, an...

05/19/2017

We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2017 CASA Jackie Donath Paper Prize is Najwa Mayer (Yale University) for her paper “Securing Punk(s): Building a (Feminist) Taqwacore Culture of Dissent in the War on Terror.” We received many quality submissions this year and thank all of those who shared their work with us at our meeting in Long Beach last month.

05/18/2017

During his keynote at CASA, David Roediger discussed Joan C. Williams's "White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America." His review of her book, "Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?," has now been published by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

David Roediger on “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America.”