Conferences, Workshops, Grants, Positions

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Calls for Papers/Conferences/Talks

SAGCSC Conference 2026 Call for abstracts
Emerging Insights into the Social: Advancing Multidisciplinary Conversation’s About the Future
The Sociology & Anthropology Graduate Student Caucus (SAGSC) Conference Committee at Carleton University welcomes submissions to its 9th annual graduate student conference, a hybrid event taking place on March 25. The committee aims to provide an academic platform where graduate students across disciplines may share their unique empirical research and theoretical insights.

This conference is multidisciplinary and invites submissions from all Carleton graduate students whose research involves a critical examination of the social. Broadly speaking, this includes any research that involves relationships, structures, and shared ways of living within a community or broader society. The goal of this conference is for graduate students to gain experience sharing their work in front of an academic audience. Therefore, we welcome presentations on uncompleted projects, including sharing of preliminary findings, outputs from arts-based methods, as well as presentations on completed research.

Submission Information:
Please submit a 200-word abstract about your 15-minute presentation with brief 50-word biography and contact information in a Microsoft Word document by January 31, 2026, to: sagsc.cu@outlook.com. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance by February 20, 2026.

If you have any questions, including if you are unsure if your topic fits within the call for submissions, you can reach out to us at sagsc.cu@outlook.com

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Call for Papers: Inclusive Health Systems & Health Equity Symposium

Building Inclusive Health Systems to Advance Health Equity across Canada
March 25, 2026
Health equity starts with systems built on inclusive policies and accessible services, and attaining high quality healthcare in a timely manner as needed (Statistics Canada, 2025). Yet, many Canadians continue to struggle to access the healthcare they need, nationally. Equity-deserving communities are particularly hard hit by health care access. For example, previous data from the Canadian Community Health Survey found that people with disabilities, racialized immigrants, and 2SLGBTIQ+ Canadians were more likely to report unmet health care needs than the general Canadian population (Pucchio et al., 2025; Lin & Fang, 2022; Hickey et al., 2023) Collectively, they faced barriers to access primary and specialist healthcare, including prolonged wait times to get access to the health services they needed, a lack of resources to afford services, and discrimination in health care settings (Pucchio et al., 2025; Lin & Fang, 2022; Hickey et al., 2023). Moreover, reluctance to use health services can vary across different ethnic groups due to cultural barriers, stigma, and systemic racism (Chiu et al., 2018). Therefore, we must consider the compounding effects of intersecting social determinants of health and the unique barriers community members face in accessing the Canadian healthcare system as we transform our health systems for greater inclusivity.

The aim of this symposium is to bring together emerging graduate students, researchers and professionals attempting to address health inequities through research and policy. It begins with the question: What does building an inclusive health system look like for all Canadians? We invite graduate students from across Canada to present their work addressing inclusive health system transformations, including those that focus on patient/client outcomes, professional research, and policy reform. Key question areas to consider include:

How do we account for intersecting forms of marginalization and discrimination that equity-deserving groups face that exacerbate healthcare inequities?
How should health system transformations take place in urban settings, where accessibility to healthcare may be limited by longer wait times, unavailable physicians, or transportation costs?
As we map out the development of more inclusive health systems, how do we ensure sustainability in the transformations?

The symposium will take place on March 25, 2026, at the Toronto Metropolitan University, within the “Dish With One Spoon” traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas, and Haudenosaunee peoples. This year’s symposium will feature a keynote by Dr. Michelle Murti, the City of Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health and leader of Toronto Public Health. A professional research panel will also be conducted in the afternoon, to welcome diverse perspectives and engaging discussions from community and public health leaders.

Awards and prizes will be presented at the symposium. Students will vote on the Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Presentation.

The following prizes will be awarded:

Best Paper Award:
- $500, which includes a five-session mentorship with a researcher to support the paper through to publication
Best Poster Award:
- $300

How to Apply
We welcome students to submit abstracts for both completed and working papers that align with the symposium theme. To apply for the symposium, please submit a document with the following by February 20, 2026 by 5 PM EST:

Paper title
Abstract (300-word limit)

Indicate whether you would like to present an oral presentation (20-min max) or poster presentation.

Submissions should be emailed to: doe3@torontomu.ca

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WAGS Conference Call for Submission

The Western Anthropology Graduate Society (WAGS) is organizing our 13^th annual Anthropology Graduate Student Conference on March 14th, 2026, in the Scholar’s Lab. This year’s theme is Teaching and Learning Anthropology: Translating our Knowledge to Public Spaces.
Please take a look at the call for abstracts and the poster. Those interested in presenting, please submit a 250-word abstract in the following form:
https://forms.gle/csw273pGYrPbc3JH8

Additional details of the conference themes and possible presentation formats can all be found in the previous form.
The abstract submission deadline is February 14th, 2026.
Lunch and coffee will be provided. Do not hesitate to reach out with any questions (uwoags@gmail.com).

We look forward to your submissions!

Sincerely,
The WAGS Conference Planning Committee
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CORA JOURNAL – Call for submissions

Full details here.

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Call for Proposals: CASCA 2026 (Halifax, May 20–23)

Dear CASCA members,
We’re now happy to share the CASCA 2026 Call for Proposals!
(please see the details here)

CASCA 2026 will take place in person at Saint Mary’s University in Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia) from May 20–23, 2026, under the theme Resurgence | Résurgence | Minowawsowakən.

We warmly invite submissions for panels (up to five papers), individual papers, roundtables, posters, and workshops. We hope you’ll consider proposing a session or sharing your work—this will be a wonderful opportunity to connect in Halifax.

Each session will be 90 minutes in length – panels and roundtables can include up to five contributions. There is a button on the website that will take you to the submission portal or you can access it directly through the following link:
Submissions

Deadline: February 21, 2026 (no extensions; late proposals cannot be considered).

More information is available on our conference
website. We can’t wait to read your proposals!

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Call for Papers – Annual Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies Student Colloquium 2026

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uOttawa CarletonU Student Conference for Northern Research

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Visiting Scholar Lecture – Cyber Warfare in Ukraine, Gaza, and Into the Future
You are invited to attend an upcoming session in our Visiting Scholar Lecture Series titled:
“Cyber Warfare in Ukraine, Gaza, and Into the Future”

This timely talk will examine how cyber tools are reshaping modern conflict and what these developments mean for the future of warfare, security, and global politics.

Speaker: Tyler Welch, Visiting Fellow, Bachelor of Global and International Studies
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: 2017 Dunton Tower

A registration link is included in the attached poster and is also available here:

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