[Commlist] CFP: Canadian Communication Association 2026 conference

The Canadian Communication Association invites submissions for our 
annual conference, to be held from June 2-4, 2026, hosted by the 
Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Windsor 
in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Windsor holds significance for the CCA. As Michael Darroch notes in his 
essay “Borderline Cases: Crossing Borders in Canadian Communication 
Studies, 1960s–1980s 
<https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/am-darroch/release/2>,” the idea to 
form the Canadian Communication Association was first proposed at a 
conference at the University of Windsor in 1978. “Windsor thus played an 
important but underreported role in establishing the CCA as a 
cross-nation initiative for the field of Canadian communication 
studies,” Darroch writes. We look forward to meeting in Windsor to 
continue our almost-fifty-year tradition of gathering for research and 
knowledge exchange, stimulating conversation, and connecting with 
colleagues from across the country. Situated across the river from 
Detroit, on the US-Canada border, Windsor offers a geographically 
significant place from which to consider a range of timely questions in 
Canadian communication studies. We welcome researchers at all career 
stages to submit abstracts for presentations on the following topics, as 
well as others that contribute to communication, media, culture and 
digital technology scholarship in Canada and globally:

*Possible Topics: *CCA topics include, but are not limited to: Age, 
ageism and technology * Audience studies and media ethnographies * Black 
communication and media studies * Climate communication * 
Communications, community and creativity * Communication ethics; 
communication and media theory *Creative, ICT and cultural industries 
*Development communication * Empire, colonialism and communication * 
Environmental and energy communication * Food communication * Games 
studies * Global media and international communication * Health 
communication * ICTs, big data and society * Indigenous media studies * 
Intercultural communication * Journalism and news * LGBTQ communications 
and queer theory and media studies * Non-verbal communication * Media 
materialities and infrastructure studies * Media activism and social 
movements * Media ecology * Media philosophy * Media arts * Media and 
communication history * Media, cultural and ICT policy, law and 
regulation * Organizational Communication * Political communication * 
Political economy of communication *Professional communication * Public 
relations, marketing and advertising * Race, ethnicity and media * 
Research-creation and media practices * Representation, identity and 
culture * Rhetoric * Sexuality, gender and media * Social media and 
society * Telecommunications * Visual communication * Work, labour and 
class in communication * Youth, children and media-culture

*Submission Deadline*: December 1, 2025, via: 
_https://www.openconf.org/CCA2026 <https://www.openconf.org/CCA2026>_

**

*FEES, MEMBERSHIP & REGISTRATION: *For this year, the CCA is trialing a 
combined conference registration fee and membership model. All those 
accepted to present, including co-authors and roundtable participants, 
will pay a “presenter” conference fee which, for academics and graduate 
students, includes a 1-year CCA membership (community members presenting 
on roundtables are not required to pay a CCA membership fee but must 
register for the conference). Non-presenting attendees may opt for a 
“non-presenter” conference fee that does not include a CCA 
membership. Information on fees and registration dates will be posted to 
our website and sent to all accepted presenters: 
_https://acc-cca.ca/index.php/conference/cca-2026-june-2-4-windsor/ 
<https://acc-cca.ca/index.php/conference/cca-2026-june-2-4-windsor/>_

*FORMAT: *In-person


For full call for papers, see: 
https://acc-cca.ca/index.php/conference/cca-2026-june-2-4-windsor/ 
<https://acc-cca.ca/index.php/conference/cca-2026-june-2-4-windsor/>

Nicole Cohen, Associate Professor

Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, 
University of Toronto

*CCA Conference Chair and Vice-President *(_nicole.cohen /at/ utoronto.ca) 
<mailto:(nicole.cohen /at/ utoronto.ca)>_

Kyle Asquith, Associate Professor and Department Head

Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor

*CCA Conference Local Arrangement Coordinator *(_kasquith /at/ uwindsor.ca) 
<mailto:(kasquith /at/ uwindsor.ca)>_



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