Welcome to the online home of IUS/Canada, a region of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.

Please join us for our next two IUS conferences:

  • The IUS Canada Conference at Carleton University in Ottawa, 21-23 October 2022
  • The IUS International Conference in Reston, Virginia, October 2023

IUS Canada 2022: Registration

Registration Form

Download the IUS Canada 2022 Registration Form. Fill it out and return it to okros@rmc.ca. Return your payment with the registration form, or pay online using the form below.

Pay Online

Fee Options

IUS Canada 2022: Hotel

Rooms are available at the Conference Hotel, the Lord Elgin, 100 Elgin Street, Ottawa at a discounted rate of $199 plus taxes and fees per night. Reservations can made at: https://reservations.travelclick.com/12200?groupID=3566738
By phone: 613-235-3333
By email: groups@lordelgin.ca


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

Area Coordinators

Kingston: David Last,

Ottawa: Brian McKee,

Winnipeg: Rick Linden,

Calgary: David Bercuson,