Category: Calls for Papers/Abstracts

24th Annual Graduate Symposium on Music

The Society of Graduate Students in Music at Western University is pleased to announce the 24th annual Graduate Symposium on August 25th and 26th.

Call for Papers, Presentations, and Lecture–Recitals
The University of Western Ontario
August 25th-26th, 2023

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joanna Bosse (Michigan State University)

This year, WUGSOM will be held virtually and in person. August 25th will be dedicated to virtual presentations and August 26th will be in person with a virtual option. Attendees who are able to join us in person will be invited to a reception following the keynote presentation.

Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes and lecture-recitals forty minutes. A ten-minute question period will follow each presentation. Submissions should include a title, a 350-word abstract (please leave out any identifying information), and your preference for a virtual or in-person presentation. All abstracts will be evaluated anonymously and should be suitable for publication in the conference program.

Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2023
Please email your submission to: 2023wugsom@gmail.com

Any questions or concerns can be sent to Donna Janowski: djanowsk@uwo.ca

Further information will be posted to the conference website as it becomes available: https://www.sogsim.com/conferences

23rd Annual Western University Graduate Symposium on Music- Call for Papers

The Society of Graduate Students in Music at Western University is pleased to announce the

23rd annual Graduate Symposium on Music (WUGSOM)
August 26 – 27, 2022.

Keynote:
“Rules, Rites, and Respect: Performing Black Moroccan Music and Culture.”

by
Dr. Maisie Sum
Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo

WUGSOM will continue to hold the conference online. The program committee invites graduate students from all institutions and disciplines to submit proposals for papers on any aspect of music, including but by no means limited to music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music education, composition, and performance. They welcome papers on any topic and encourage a diversity of excellence in research across many fields.

The deadline for submission is Friday, June 30th, 2022 at 4:00 pm EST.

Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, with a 10-minute question period. All submissions must include the title of the paper and a proposal not exceeding 350 words. Proposals should not include supplementary materials or figures and should not include your name or other identifying information. Please send submissions using the form available at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSee-M8f6Q_ZxznZLMgqoRDhtaqEAck8AIY9kyv3Vlvbe2jonw/viewform.

Further information will be posted to the conference website as it becomes available: https://www.sogsim.com/conferences


Queer Research Day 2021 – Call for Papers and Presentations

The Sexuality and Gender Research Group at Western University will be holding the eleventh annual Queer Research Day on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. This will be an online conference, so presentations need to be in a format that can be read or otherwise displayed effectively on Zoom. The group welcomes 15 – 20 minute oral presentations, in particular, but is also interested in other types of proposals, including artists’ performances, film screenings, musical events, and other forms of queer work.

Registration is free, but you will be required to register in order to receive the Zoom invitation. More information on registration will be available shortly.

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to participate or just to attend. If you are interested in presenting, please email a short abstract with title or a brief description of your paper or other proposal to Wendy Pearson (wpearson@uwo.ca). The group hopes to include presentations on a wide variety of topics from a broad range of disciplines. The deadline for receiving proposals is April 14, 2021.

Envirocon 2021 Call for Abstracts

Western University invites graduate students to submit abstracts for presentations and speed talks for the 2021 EnviroCon research conference.

The following is copied from The WIRE:

EnviroCon is an annual interdisciplinary conference organized by the Centre for Environment and Sustainability. It offers an opportunity for graduate students to present their work to a diverse audience of researchers focusing on environment and sustainably issues. We welcome students from any and all departments and disciplines.

The virtual conference will take place on March 26, 2021, and there are no fees associated with this event.

Presenters and attendees are required to register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/envirocon-2021-tickets-140285171725

Abstracts can be submitted HERE (deadline for abstracts is February 26, 2021).

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Questions can be directed to uwoenvirocon@gmail.com.

Western University Graduate Symposium on Music

21st ANNUAL

WESTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society of Graduate Students in Music at Western University is pleased to announce its 21st annual Graduate Symposium on Music (WUGSOM), August 14th – 15th, 2020. This year Dr. Charles Garrett (University of Michigan) will deliver the keynote address titled ““Our AI Lets Humans Take Control”: Popular Music and Collaborative Artificial Intelligence.”

This year WUGSOM is going virtual! The conference will look quite different from what it is usually as it will be held entirely online. To make the conference more manageable as the organizers navigate this new digital format, submissions for this year’s symposium will be limited to only graduate students at Western. Though this will be a significant change of pace from previous years, it also presents new opportunities and organizers are hard at work developing ideas for how to best take advantage of the digital format and the more intimate scale.

The program committee invites Western graduate students of all disciplines to submit proposals for papers on any aspect of music, including but by no means limited to music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music education, composition, and performance. They welcome papers on any topic and encourage a diversity of excellence in research across many fields.

The deadline for submission is Friday, June 19th, 2020 at 4:00 pm EST.

Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, with a 10-minute question period. All submissions must include the title of the paper and a proposal not exceeding 350 words. Proposals should not include supplementary materials or figures and should not include your name or other identifying information. Please send submissions in MS Word format (.doc or .docx) to wugsom2020@gmail.com. In your cover email, please include your name, program, year in program, and preferred email address. Further information will be posted to the conference website as it becomes available: http://sogsim.com/conference-2020/

Organized by: The Society of Graduate Students in Music, Western University, wugsom2020@gmail.com

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24th UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference

Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia invites graduate students from all disciplines to participate in the 24th annual UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference held on May 5-6, 2020 in Vancouver. The conference provides graduate students and junior scholars with an opportunity to discuss and share ideas, receive feedback, and network with peers.

Submissions are invited from students from any discipline that fits with the theme, Changes in Law Over 25 Years.

Topics: Papers may be on any topic, including (but not limited to): Technology and the law; International law; Environmental law; Indigenous law; Law and race; Feminist law

Deadline: March 15, 2020

Submissions should include the title of the paper, a 250-word abstract in English, the author’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation. We welcome submissions from current graduate students and folks who have recently completed graduate studies (up to one-year post-graduation). Papers from JD or LLB students may also be considered.

Please send your submissions via email to ubclawgradconference@gmail.com by March 15, 2020. Applicants will be notified if they have been offered a place at the conference in March 2020 via email.

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Call for Abstracts – EnviroCon (Western)

The Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) invites graduate students to submit abstracts for morning oral presentations (12 mins), afternoon speed talks (3 mins), and lunchtime posters on research related to environment and sustainability for this year’s EnviroCon research conference at The University of Western Ontario.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
submission deadline extended to February 28
papers | posters | speed talks

The conference will take place on March 13, 2020, and there are no fees associated with this event.

Register: Presenters and attendees are required to register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/centre-for-environment-and-sustainability-envirocon-2020-tickets-91316968511

Questions can be directed to uwoenvirocon@gmail.com

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Call for Abstracts: ‘Building Bridges’

Upcoming conference at the University of Toronto Mississauga: 

BUILDING BRIDGES: NAVIGATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GRADUATE STUDENTS AND VULNERABLE OR MARGINALIZED PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES

April 9, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm

Building Bridges has been designed as a series of workshops encouraging discussion, research, and cross-community engagement between current and future professionals in health care, law, policing, criminology, and forensic science, and the individuals or communities at risk of interactions with such.

Conference sessions are focused on both the consideration of vulnerable persons and/or marginalized communities in research and practice, as well as the consideration of graduate students as individuals in conflicting positions of privilege and precarity. Graduate students will be introduced to managing the stresses of graduate school and prebuilding resiliency, specifically in future positions where there may exist a high-risk of direct or vicarious trauma. In addition, attendees will partake in discussions surrounding current practices and future outlooks regarding interactions with vulnerable persons and/or marginalized communities in the aforementioned fields, and become familiar with the skills beneficial for such. Overall, the aim of this conference is to generate a stronger, more nuanced, and more empathetic understanding of vulnerable and marginalized peoples and communities, and facilitate movement towards positive interaction through further outreach, research, and education.

While the target audience is graduate and professional students in the fields of l aw, health care, policing, criminology, and forensic sciences, early career researchers and working professionals in the aforementioned fields are encouraged to attend.

Submission of abstracts for poster presentations from students whose research involves working with vulnerable and/or marginalized peoples and communities is invited. Deadline – February 28, 2020.

Please visit the website for further information: https://buildingbridgesutm.wixsite.com/buildingbridges

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Interconnections 2020: in/between – Call for proposals

The Queen’s University Department of Sociology invites paper proposals for

SGSA Annual Interconnections Conference: In/Between
Rose Innovation Hub (Mitchell Hall – Queen’s University, Kingston ON)
March 27 2020

The Queen’s University Sociology Graduate Student Association (SGSA) invites researchers to consider the in/between. With this theme, we seek to provide a space for researchers to critically examine classification, categorization, and the experiences of being caught in and between these processes. This theme also brings attention to those who transcend categories, and those at the margins. We especially encourage work that seeks to mobilize research for social empowerment.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
· Media, Information, & Surveillance
· Criminology, Policing, and Law
· Social Justice, Power, and Resistance
· Feminism, Queer Theory, & Intersectionality
· Critical Race and Indigenous Studies

We especially encourage research and papers in progress that focus on indigenous and/or queer studies. We also welcome participants considering alternative presentation formats for scholarly and artistic projects. Teleconferencing options for presenting will also be available upon request.
Participants will be able to receive feedback from faculty and peers – this is an excellent professional development opportunity in a supportive environment.

All graduate students and upper-year undergraduates are invited to submit and/or attend! Whether you have a project that is completed or is a work-in-progress, we encourage you to submit a project title, 250 word abstract, any technology requests, and contact information in a word document.

Please email your submission to sgsa.conference@gmail.com by February 24 2020.

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Women in International Security – Canada

Women in International Security- Canada is looking for women-identifying and non-binary graduate students to present at their 13th Annual Workshop, themed: Future Security Challenges Facing Canada: Vital Insights from Women in International Security in Toronto from May 7-8.

They welcome graduate students who are doing work on pressing global issues (such as human rights, climate change, political violence, gender and politics, etc.) to leverage their research expertise and insights to the Canadian or foreign policy context. 

Deadline for proposal submissions: February 24, 2020.

Submit abstract (100-200 words) to workshop@wiiscanada.org.

Papers should fall within the workshop’s four main themes:

1) New and Emerging Security Threats (e.g. space conflict, cyber and AI, climate change, arctic security, migration and borders, etc.)

2) Complex Conflicts and War (e.g. terrorism, hybrid warfare, civil wars, international interventions, great power conflicts, etc.)

3) Gender and Security (e.g. women, peace, and security agenda, gender issues in the military, GBA+, intersectionality and politics, gender-based violence, etc.)

4) Security, Justice, and Law (e.g. international and national legal questions related to conflict, terrorism, and security, borders, etc.)

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to present in front of and receive feedback from experts from academia as well as practitioners from the military and leading consulting firms, among others. There will also be an opportunity for the top presenters to publish their work as either a paper or policy brief in a special edition of the leading Canadian foreign policy journal, International Journal. Travel stipends will be provided for out of town presenters. 

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