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WSCA 2025 Submission Call for Papers and Submission Information
We are excited to have you submit your work to the 2025 Western States Communication Association’s annual convention in Albuquerque, NM. Click below to view important information about submitting to the convention along with each of our interest group calls for papers.
CSCA 2025 Convention – Now Accepting Submissions!
The CSCA 2025 online submission site is open and waiting for your submissions! We hope that you are all planning to join us as we work on Widening the Scope from April 1st-6th at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Please visit the CSCA webpage and click on each Interest Group to view calls for papers and panels under Recent News.
Directions for creating a profile and submitting papers and panels can be found by clicking Online Submission Directions at the bottom of the 2025 Call for Submissions page at the CSCA website.
If you have any questions, please contact CSCA 1st Vice President/2025 Primary Planner Dr. Jeffrey T. Child at jeffrey.child@unlv.edu. We look forward to seeing all of you in Cincinnati!
Deadline for Submissions: October 5, 2024, 11:59 pm CDT
SSCA 2025 Annual Convention Submissions Open!
The Submission portal for the 95th Annual Southern States Communication Association Convention and Undergraduate Honors Conference is scheduled to open July 21, 2024. The conference will be held at the Hilton Norfolk The Main in Norfolk, Virginia April 2-6, 2025. The conference theme is "Anchors and Anchoring Communication." SSCA seeks papers, panels, roundtables, and poster presentations that examine how communication attracts, attaches, secures, supports, anchors, and/or de-anchors individuals and communities. Submissions are due by 11:59 pm Pacific on September 15, 2024. The general conference call and the individual division and interest group calls may be found on the SSCA website at https://www.ssca.net/convention-information. Papers,panels, roundtables, and poster proposals may be submitted via XCD conference website at https://www.xcdsystem.com/ssca/member/. For more information, contact the conference planner, Dr. Patrick Wheaton, SSCA 1st Vice President, at ssca2025norfolk@gmail.com.
Call for Submissions
116th Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention
“Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions”
Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, NY
March 26-March 30, 2025
Submission Deadline: October 16, 2024, 11:59pm PST
Known as the “City of Good Neighbors” for its welcoming and supportive community, Buffalo will be the site for the 2025 annual convention of the Eastern Communication Association. For the first time in 23 years, ECA will be held in the great state of New York! Please join us at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo from March 26-30, 2025, for the 116th ECA annual convention.
The Hyatt Regency is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Buffalo within walking distance to the waterfront, KeyBank Center, Buffalo Naval Park, Buffalo RiverWorks, Canalside, and Shea’s Buffalo Theatre. The property offers several amenities for guests, including on-site dining, a fitness center, and a business center.
The 2025 convention theme is Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions. In our ever-changing world, contemporary problems and issues need to be addressed with creative solutions. Communication Studies scholars and practitioners are well-positioned to offer theoretical and practical insights to address contemporary problems. First Vice President’s Special Programming will focus on the communication surrounding contemporary problems and potential solutions in various areas including social justice, Artificial Intelligence, higher education enrollment, undergraduate and graduate program development, curriculum changes, current political climate, health disparities, and workplace communication issues, among other areas. I encourage submissions that interrogate the following:
- How can Communication Studies scholarship, teaching, and practice provide creative solutions to contemporary societal, environmental, geopolitical, technological, and economic problems?
- How can we best prepare undergraduate and graduate students to address these contemporary problems with creative solutions?
- How can we extend Communication Studies scholarship, teaching, and practice to settings and situations outside our traditional contexts?
The 116th ECA convention will feature paper sessions, panel sessions, short courses, poster sessions, and roundtables. The 2025 convention will also feature the Basic Course Conference. This will be an exciting opportunity for all individuals who teach or direct the introductory communication courses at their respective institutions to engage with each other by sharing innovative basic course research, pedagogical strategies, and program initiatives.
I consider it an incredible honor to serve you and our incredible Association as the 2025 Primary Convention Planner. I am very excited to work with Interest Group Planners and my convention planning team to plan a wonderful ECA 2025. I certainly hope you will join us for a wonderful convention in Buffalo!
Jordan Atkinson, Ph.D.
University of Kansas
Convention Acceptance Notifications: January 2025