Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 — Friday, March 17th, 2017 |
| Time: | 8:30 am — 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, 2nd floor conference rooms |
| Audience: | Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty |
| Cost: | TBD |
Why do past, present and future realities captivate and fascinate?
The 12th annual Communication Graduate Caucus (CGC) conference, Imagined Realities, invites us to explore how discourses and representations provide us with roadmaps into potential futures. When imagination enters communication, we get a sense of creativity, of playfulness and of persuasion. Imagination implies innovation, invention and the potential for transformation; but imagination also contributes to our ongoing anxieties, assumptions and fears of the unknown. We imagine realities in the present to grapple with the uncertainties of the future as well as recollect stories of the past. Other times we imagine to attain a feeling of escapism or fantasy. Imagining is perpetual, but often fragmented and immaterial. Imaginative thoughts reveal the gap between lived experiences and perception, revealing the disconnect between theory and practice.
The 2017 CGC Graduate Conference invites us to critically reflect on how past, present and future imagined realities impact the way we navigate and conduct our lives. The conference theme, Imagined Realities, encourages submissions examining a broad range of topics and themes such as cultural memories, myths and narratives, the politics of storytelling, analyses of identity formation and the self, and tensions between the natural environment and emerging technologies.
The conference offers an opportunity for graduate students to present their work, receive feedback, and compete for the Canadian Journal of Communication Student Paper Prize. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to network with colleagues from across the country. Full details on the call for conference proposals can be found here. The deadline is JANUARY 07, 2017
2017 CGC Keynote:
“Sonar and the eco-sonic imaginary” – DR. JOHN SHIGA
Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of Professional Communication at Ryerson University, and Carleton Communication PhD Alumnus
How sonar has played a pivotal role in producing the ocean environment as an object of knowledge. Dr. Shiga will explore how an archaeology of sonar might inform the emerging elemental approach in media studies.