[Commlist] 2020 SFU CMNS Grad Conference: Research and Possibility Beyond Communication Studies

*Call for Proposals: 2020 Simon Fraser University Communication Graduate 
Student Conference*
*Deadline Extended: New Deadline 15 March 2020 (PST 11:59 PM)*

*All You Need Is… *
Research and Possibility Beyond Communication Studies

SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver, BC
14 May 2020
Located at the intersection of a number of academic fields and engaging 
with concepts and phenomena that affect our perception of the world and 
our daily lives, communication studies is well-positioned to generate 
invigorating debate, out-of-the-box research, and anti-status-quo 
critique. In a context in which digital technology casts a shadow on 
democracy, transnational capital’s power grows exponentially, and the 
voices of citizen-activists become fainter as algorithms gain agency, 
how might we conceive of creative and critical research as an agent of 
possibility? Taking stock of contemporary social, political, economic, 
and environmental conditions, it is easy to get the impression that we 
are riding a collective train that is gathering speed en route to a dead 
end. What alternative possibilities can communication scholars produce, 
highlight, and call for through research?

Drawing on the interdisciplinary potential of communication studies, the 
2020 SFU School of Communication Graduate Caucus Conference aims to 
generate conversation by highlighting the ways in which graduate-level 
research can address, challenge, and rethink the issues and stakes of 
our times. Twenty years into the new millennium, we ask graduate 
students in communication studies and associated disciplines: How might 
we conceive of research as a motor of possibility, or, vice-versa, of 
possibility as a motor of research? Through this conference, we hope to 
create a space conducive to cross-disciplinary dialogue, engaged 
critique, creative proposals, and provocative re-imaginings from 
graduate students across Canada.

The organizing team encourages graduate students across the globe. We 
are now accepting proposals for papers (presentations), panels, 
workshops and roundtables that examine the following keywords (but not 
limited to):

  * Communication studies
  * Research
  * Possibility
  * Creativity
  * Critique
  * Imagination
  * Alternatives
  * Creative methodologies
  * Interdisciplinarity
  * Pedagogy and communication


Please submit a 250-word abstract, exclusive of references, for 
15-minute paper presentations, presentation of in-progress research 
(MA/PhD), GCMA capstone projects, term papers, and participatory 
presentation formats to (sfucmnsgradconference2020 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(sfucmnsgradconference2020 /at/ gmail.com)> no later than *March 15, 
2020 (PST 11:59 PM)*.

We are pleased to announce that we just confirmed a fantastic keynote 
speaker, /Margret Grebowicz, a feminist environmental philosopher/, is 
coming to our event. We look forward to your many interests.

*Margret Grebowicz* explores the cultural aspects of environmental 
problems and solutions in her writing and public speaking. She is the 
author of Whale Song, The National Park to Come, Why Internet Porn 
Matters, Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway, and numerous 
academic articles on topics in animal studies, science and technology 
studies, and feminist environmental ethics. Her recent essays, in venues 
like The Atlantic and The Philosophical Salon, cover topics from the 
Himalaya and Chernobyl to interactive dog feeders and artificial 
insemination of bees. She has worked as a professional jazz vocalist in 
New York City and as a philosophy professor at the University of 
Houston-Downtown, Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, and the 
University of Tyumen, Russia. She lives on a windy hilltop in northwest 
upstate New York, where she delights in the weak WiFi. Her book in 
progress, Mountains and Desire, will be published by Repeater in 2020.

/** The guest lecture is open to the public (Time and Location - TBA)./

Key Dates:
*15 March 2020: Extended deadline for abstract submission (PST 11:59 PM)*
27 March 2020: Corresponding authors notified of decisions
14 April 2020: Deadline for presenters to confirm participation in 
Conference
7 May 2020: Conference registrations close (RSVP recommended)
14 May 2020: Conference starts in Vancouver, BC

General Inquiries:

  * Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte (mbourche /at/ sfu.ca) <mailto:(mbourche /at/ sfu.ca)>
  * Hyejin Jo (hyejinj /at/ sfu.ca) <mailto:(hyejinj /at/ sfu.ca)>


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including the Squamish (Sḵwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil ̱ -Waututh (səlilh 
w̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations.


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