Welcome to the online home of IUS/Canada, a region of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.
Two Important Updates
Please note two changes for the IUS Canada conference. First, dates have been adjusted: panels will be conducted Sat 24 and Sun 25 Oct – so no panels on Fri 23rd and last panels on Sunday will end at 1700. We will commence with a conference dinner Fri 23rd. For those travelling, please note to adjust your plans as required. Second, the venue has been amended to the University of Ottawa Social Science Building: FSS on campus maps. Additional conference information will be provided to registered participants.
The Call for Papers for the 2026 conference is now available.
IUS Canada 2026: Registration
Registration Form
Download the IUS Canada 2026 Registration Form. Fill it out and return it to [email protected]. Return your payment with the registration form, or pay online using the form below.
Pay Online
Dr. Franklin (""Frank"") Pinch (Past Chair, IUS/Canada and Board/Council Member, and Associate Editor, Armed Forces and Society) congratulates Bonnie Vest outside Yo Hall, on the Royal Military College of Canada campus, upon her being selected for the 2008 Graduate Student Award that bears his name. The Award was presented by current IUS/Canada Chair The Franklin C. Pinch Award is presented to the IUS Conference participant judged to have presented the best Graduate Student paper for that year, and consists of both a Certificate and $500.00. Ms. Vest, a doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Buffalo, New York, who plans to work in the area of military anthropology. is the second such recipient (the first was Elizabeth St. Jean, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada). The Vest paper is entitled Cultural Stereotypes, Nationalism, and International Peacekeeping: The National Guard in Kosovo.
Alan Okros,
IUS/Canada Chair
Canadian Forces College
Vanessa Brown
IUS/Canada Conference Program Chair
Canadian Forces College