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CASDW-ACR 2025 Conference Program
As our annual conference is fast approaching, we are happy to share the conference program on the CASDW-ACR 2025 webpage!
CASDW-ACR 2025 will run May 31 & June 1 (Saturday & Sunday), 2025 at George Brown College Waterfront Campus (WF Building), in Toronto Ontario (in person and online). Presenters and attendees — plan your conference and anticipate what other sessions you can attend and engage in!
Calling All Dissertation Survivors (2024)!
The Joan Pavelich CASDW Annual Award for the Best Dissertation in Writing and Discourse Studies recognizes an outstanding PhD dissertation in Writing Studies, Discourse Studies, Rhetoric, or a cognate field for 2024. The award will be given to a student in a Canadian university or to a Canadian student studying outside Canada. To be eligible, dissertations must have been defended between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. An announcement of the winning dissertation will be made at the CASDW Annual Conference. Nominees do not need to be CASDW members, and self-nominations are accepted.
The award includes a prize of $100 and a one-year free CASDW membership for the following year.
The deadline for nominations is March 17, 2025.
The assessment criteria for the award are as follows: (1) the overall quality of the writing and thinking; (2) the significance of the question(s) addressed in the research; (3) the importance of the new knowledge presented in the thesis; and (3) and methodological rigour and/or innovation.
Applicants/nominators should send the following items to each member of the selection committee listed below: a PDF file containing the dissertation (or a link to an online repository), and a cover sheet with the applicant’s full name, citizenship, institution and degree program, and contact information for their primary supervisor.
Kim Mitchell kim.mitchell (at) umanitoba.ca
Katja Thieme katja.thieme (at) ubc.ca
Nazih El-Bezre nazih.el-bezre (at) ubc.ca
Call for Nominations: 2025 Doreen Starke-Meyerring Award for Best Article or Chapter in Writing & Discourse Studies
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Doreen Starke-Meyerring Annual Award for the best article or chapter in writing and discourse studies. This award celebrates the outstanding scholarship being produced within the Canadian writing and discourse studies community.
The Doreen Starke-Meyerring Annual Award recognizes the best journal article or book chapter published during the calendar year by a CASDW member. Co-authored articles or chapters will be eligible as long as one of the authors is a CASDW member.
In order to be eligible, nominees must have been CASDW members in 2024. In the case of co-authored pieces, at least one member must have been a CASDW member in 2024. The nominated article or chapter must have been published in 2024.
To nominate an article or chapter, send a PDF of the journal article or book chapter and a complete reference to the Chair of the selection committee (shumphreys (at) uvic.ca). No other documents needed!
The deadline for nominations is March 10, 2025.
The winner of the award will be announced at the CASDW Annual Conference. Authors are invited to nominate their own publications as well as those of other CASDW members.
The assessment criteria for the award are as follows:
(1) the overall quality of the writing and thinking
(2) the significance of the question(s) addressed in the research;
(3) the importance of the new knowledge presented in the article and
(4) methodological approach and/or innovation.
The award includes a one-year CASDW membership for the following year.
CASDW/ACR 2025 Conference: Call for Proposals
The CASDW/ACR annual conference will be held on Saturday May 31 & Sunday June 1 2025 at George Brown College, in Toronto, Ontario. We will join the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences conference and offer an as-hybrid-as-possible conference in-person and online with live-streaming when available.
We enthusiastically invite proposals for presentations, roundtables, or workshops, engaging all topics related to writing studies and discourse studies, and other fields that are relevant to the study of discourse and writing. Learn more by reading the Call for Proposals!
In the coming months, watch for information from CASDW/ACR on early-bird registration and more!
Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/Association Canadienne de Rédactologie 