2027 Call for Submissions
Central States Communication Association
2027 Annual Conference
Navigate
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club
Madison, Wisconsin
April 7 - 11, 2027
You are invited to submit competitive papers, panel discussions, and performance sessions for our 96th Annual Convention in Madison, WI. Members are encouraged to reflect on the theme of Navigate —Finding Inspiration in Uncharted Terrain. In our everyday lived experiences, we form deep and mutually meaningful relationships as well as face conflict, strain, and uncertainty in our personal and professional communities. Our desire for stability, certainty, and even predictability in our lives is made even more challenging in increasingly changing and complicated social worlds. The theme Navigate is an invitation to consider the possibilities in our everyday lives and to find opportunity, inspiration, and illumination as we navigate our collective futures.
Our lived experiences are complex, incomplete, partial, and are woven into ongoing realities. As we Navigate our experiences, we look for explanatory power and understanding through social, political, cultural, and community ongoings. To engage in the possibility of deeply understanding our journey, we must engage both the near and the far of lived realities. We ought to find inspiration in the uncharted terrain of past, present, and future human experiences.
Too frequently our understanding of human experience fails to Navigate the uncharted, complex, or unknown of lived experiences and often borders are installed to disallow all identities and voices from participation. To this end, I hope each of us may engage with the theme Navigate to foster spaces of deeper collaboration, reflection, and communication.
Faculty, students, independent scholars, K-12 educators, and community members are encouraged to submit and attend the convention. Institutional and community partnerships are particularly welcome. Submissions inclusive of all methodological perspectives in the communication discipline are expected and embraced.
Question about the general call or the 2027 conference:
- Contact Stevie Munz (Smunz@uvu.edu), 2027 primary program planner
Look for specific calls and submission information from each of the 28 CSCA Interest Groups, Caucuses, and Sections.
Deadline for Submissions: October 9, 2026, 11:59 pm CDT
Directions for using the online system: Online Submission Directions
