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<div dir="ltr"><i>Please share with your graduate programs for wider circulation (and apologies for any cross-posting). </i>
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<div>Dear all, </div>
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<div>On behalf of the graduate organizing committee, the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary invites submissions for its 2026 Graduate Conference (April 30th-May 1st, 2026). </div>
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<div><i><font color="#ff0000"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Deadline for submissions:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u>Friday, February 27, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. MST.</u></b></font></i><br>
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<div><b>Conference Theme: Shifting Ground</b></div>
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<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Department of Communication, Media and Film (CMF) Graduate Conference organizing committee invites submissions for its annual multidisciplinary graduate conference
held at the University of Calgary (Calgary, AB).</font></div>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Rapid change, resistance, and disruption shape how knowledge is produced, circulated, and understood. Whether encountered at the level of theory, practice, within institutions,
or in everyday life, scholars and citizens alike face obstacles that demand adaptation.<span> </span><i>Shifting Ground<span> </span></i>invites participants to reflect on how academic research and media responds and reflects when familiar infrastructures
fall into disarray. To (re)see current, past, or future problems in a new light, scholars employ a wide range of methodologies and innovations, inviting connection to the collective memory.</font></div>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The CMF Annual Graduate Conference welcomes papers and media submissions that explore adaptation, recalibration, and reorientation across communication, media, film,
journalism, social science, and the humanities. We encourage submissions that examine how meaning is negotiated under pressure, how progress can be reimagined, and how new possibilities emerge by shining a light where it’s most needed.</font></div>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Our conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that unites rather than divides, while supporting critical, reflexive, and imaginative scholarship. We are
committed to decolonizing knowledge creation and sharing, and to grounding our work in a feminist ethic of care, accessibility, and inclusivity.</font></div>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We welcome:</span></div>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:17.12px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Traditional paper presentations</font></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:17.12px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Visual and media-based submissions</font></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:17.12px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Research-creation projects</font></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:17.12px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Community-based research</font></li></ul>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Location:</b> This in-person conference will be held at Mohkinstsis (Calgary), within the traditional territories of the Treaty 7 Nations – the Siksika, Piikani,
and Kainai of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut’ina, and the Stoney Nakoda Nations (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations– and the Métis Nation within Alberta (Nose Hill Métis District 5 and Elbow Métis District 6).</font></div>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Dates:</b> April 30 and May 1, 2026</font></div>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Cost:</b> The conference is free to attend. Participants are responsible for travel, accommodation, transportation, breakfast, and evening meals.</font></div>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Included:</b> Coffee/tea/water and lunch on both days</font></div>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Open to:</font></b></div>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:17.12px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">All active graduate students</font></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:17.12px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Undergraduate honours students considering graduate school</font></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:17.12px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Graduate students who have graduated within the past year</font></li></ul>
<div style="color:black;margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Deadline for submissions:</b> <b><u>Friday, February 27, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. MST.</u></b></font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submissions (your project’s title and 250-word maximum abstract explaining the project’s connection to the conference theme) will be accepted through the<span> </span><span style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><u><a title="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsMi1PNtOtm6pl8Qrb311dJTycYw2pNQSNpmILp8uRglMCKQ/viewform?usp=preview" id="m_8615611314022464187gmail-OWA3d4d440b-9383-e2b5-f57b-ad48b706c3de" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsMi1PNtOtm6pl8Qrb311dJTycYw2pNQSNpmILp8uRglMCKQ/viewform?usp=preview" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);margin:0px" target="_blank">CMF
Conference Submission Portal</a></u></span>.</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you would like to receive conference updates, including a link to the conference website when it is live and a reminder one week before the submission deadline,
please sign up here:<span> </span><span style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><u><a title="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0bEHtj-KBAHos5br6Nh_RoSyVm4PaFSxXT12mydIDdjcGVQ/viewform?usp=preview" id="m_8615611314022464187gmail-OWA4a3016f8-b9d9-5ca2-b56d-54e268548d6b" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0bEHtj-KBAHos5br6Nh_RoSyVm4PaFSxXT12mydIDdjcGVQ/viewform?usp=preview" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);margin:0px" target="_blank">Mailing
List</a></u></span></font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284">Questions? Please contact at:
<a href="mailto:CMFgradconf@ucalgary.ca" target="_blank">CMFgradconf@ucalgary.ca</a> </div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284">Thank you!</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 8pt;line-height:1.284">Sam</div>
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