This panel foregrounds lived, social, and racialized experiences of border crossing and cross-border belonging.

• Olivia Schmidt
  Brock University
  Student Experiences of Race, Citizenship, and Border Crossing in the Niagara Region
• Nir Hagigi
  York University / Carleton University
  Maghrebi Jewish Migration, Montreal, and New York as Diasporic Hubs
• Alison Jenkins Jayman
  Independent Scholar
  Different Visions, Different Burdens: Women's Perspectives on Public Health Insurance in Ontario and New York

This panel begins the historical arc without making Friday morning “the history block.” It links America 250, Loyalist landscapes, early US–UK–British North America relations, and the Atlantic political economy.

• Claire Campbell
  Bucknell University
  “Natural Productions and Advantages”: Loyalist Landscapes in a Revolutionary Era
• Patrick Callaway
  University of Maine-Presque Isle
  The Problem of Provisions: Trade and the Year without a Summer in Nova Scotia
• Fr. Thomas Murphy, SJ
  Boston College
  Not a monster I search for to destroy: John Quincy Adams and British North American Autonomy, 1814–1829

This panel turns to contemporary political structures, Arctic security, international relations, and the unsettling of older Canada–US assumptions.

• John W. Bessai
  Independent Scholar
  Staging Sovereignty in the North: Canadian Arctic Security Policy and the Canada–U.S. Relationship, 2025–2026
• David J. Rovinsky
  Independent Scholar
  Beyond Oil: Alberta Separatism, Culture War Politics, and the Unsettling of the Canada–U.S. Continental Order
• Chris Kirkey and Amy Sotherden
  SUNY Plattsburgh
  Canada, the United States, and Political Leadership in the International Community

This panel brings together historical and institutional work on religious networks, accreditation, and cross-border community formation.

• Soren M. Hessler
  Emory University
  The Persistence of U.S.-Canadian Transnational Accreditation and the Canadian Schools' Lunch
• Brittany Goetting
  University of Pikeville
  Baptist Women, Religious Print Culture, and Transnational Protestant Community in Northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes
• Brendan Shanahan
  Yale University
  Canadian Connections: Transnational Nativism, Blue-Collar Immigration Politics, and the American Protective Association in Late Gilded Age Detroit

Francophone panel: language, identity, and international / economic relations are key themes.

• Christina Keppie
  Western Washington University
  L'Acadie moderne — Building a False Narrative?
• Claire-Marie Brisson
  Harvard University
  A Continental Language: Teaching French as Cultural Diplomacy Between Canada and the United States
• Bendreff DesilusTentative
  Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Universidad La Salle México
  Le rôle du commerce transfrontalier dans les relations économiques entre le Canada et les États-Unis

This panel brings together media, regulation, and cultural identity across the border.

• Christine Cooling
  York University
  Canada's Online Streaming Act, Cultural Sovereignty, and Canada–U.S. Trade Relations
• Hailey Baldock
  York University
  Circulating Obscenity: Media Flows and Moral Regulation Across the Canada–U.S. Border
• Andrew C. Holman and Eric Weeks
  Bridgewater State University
  Elbows Up: The Hockey Metaphor and Canadian Political Culture

This panel centers on environmental change, food systems, resource politics, and regional life.

• Brian Payne
  Bridgewater State University
  Whose Fault, Whose Responsibility?: Understanding Poverty in Canada during the Great Depression
• Owen Temby
  University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Shrimp, Redfish, and Fishery Transition: Quebec and the U.S. Gulf Coast in Comparative Perspective
• Mark McLaughlin
  University of Maine
  Building Bridges of Interspecies Meaning: Human-Animal Relations as Environmental Indicators in Postwar New Brunswick

This panel joins Indigenous studies, border studies, settler colonialism, and disciplinary reflection.

• Jenni Makahnouk
  McGill University
  What's with All the Cryptids in the Mid-Atlantic? Discourse Analysis of the Scary Beasts Squonking Around the Woods
• James Hundley
  Rowan University
  Border Studies, Settler Colonialism, and the Future of Canadian Studies
• Devan Blackwell
  ACSUS Emerging Scholar
  STATIC TERMS: Film, Pedagogy, and Canada–U.S. Communication

This panel brings together philosophical and political reflections on Canada, identity, ideology, and the Early Modern North Atlantic World.

• Eric Wilkinson
  University of British Columbia
  Pierre du Calvet: Philosopher of New France
• Andy PostTentative
  University of New Brunswick
  An Ideological Borderland? Competing Visions for Newfoundland during the American Revolution, 1763–1784
• Joseph McGinn
  St. Stephen's University / Curtis Institute of Music
  National Identity and “Primal” Experience in George Grant's Philosophy

This panel gathers papers concerned with textuality, heritage preservation, and community.

• Jeanne Minahan McGinn
  Curtis Institute of Music
  Inside Outposts: Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station
• Brian George ThomasTentative
  Wayne State University
  Paper Borders: Franco-American Collections and the Politics of Heritage Preservation

This panel links Quebec and Alberta, political ideology, and political memory.

• Alexandre Couture GagnonTentative
  University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Conservative Policy Ideas in Québec and Alberta: Domestic Diffusion or Transnational Borrowing?
  With Daniel Béland, André Lecours
• Alexandre TurgeonTentative
  Université Laval
  The Future of the Quiet Revolution

This panel ties together the rise and fall of the federal NDP from the 2011 election to the present, social trust and accessibility, and changing US-Canada relations.

• Jayantha JaymanTentative
  St. Lawrence University
  Canada's Shift Away from Consenting to U.S. Hegemony: Assessing Structures of Power
• Charles DeshaiesTentative
  SUNY Plattsburgh
  Wasn't that a Party? The Riches to Rags Story of the New Democratic Party in Canada, 2011–2026
• Scott PirothTentative
  Bowling Green State University
  Social Trust and Accessibility in Curling Clubs