I don't think anyone on my flist is in Montreal (besides
eacherown), but if you are, or if you just want to know what's going on in the academic anime-sphere, check out this event being hosted by Concordia University next weekend:
Experiencing Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games The keynote speaker is Otsuka Eiji on Saturday, and on Sunday there will be papers by Ian Condry (on Miku!), Thomas Lamarre, Ueno Toshiya and Thomas Looser, among other fine scholars. I'm going, and I'm pumped!
Now if only I can manage to finish all the marking/exam writing/lecture prep that needs to be done before I go... O.o