Call for Competitive Graduate Posters
The 103rd Eastern Communication Association Convention
Transitions
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Royal Sonesta Hotel
April 26-29, 2012
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2011
(Note: Deadline enables full semester preparation)
Submission Email: tpg@umd.edu
Submission Format: .doc file or PDF
Much communication scholarship and practice articulates transition, including cycles of interpersonal relationships, social change, the ongoing digital revolution, the changing urban landscape, and the social, economic, and political changes we are currently experiencing. Whether you want to explore the transitions in our country during a national election year, those being made in teaching, ECA’s move into its second hundred years, or any other aspect of transition, the Convention theme of “Transitions” gives you an exciting starting place for discussion and planning.
Papers for the Graduate Poster Session will be accepted from every sub-discipline in the field of communication. Competitive poster presentations involve an author(s) standing next to a physical poster that visually explains the crux of the paper. Convention participants, including judges, read the posters and talk to the authors about their studies. If you have never presented at an academic conference, poster sessions are a less stressful foray into the academic community. You may want to consider making a handout that summarizes your study for people who talk to you during the session.
Submissions of Completed Posters should include several components:
“In submitting the attached paper or proposal, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this panel or paper if it is accepted and programmed. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at ECA’s annual meeting must register and pay required fees.”