October 02, 2025

Hosted by the 快播视频 and Toronto Metropolitan University Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture

Friday, December 12, 2025
快播视频 (Keele Campus), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, November 10, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.

The 9th Annual Future Communications graduate student conference invites masters and doctoral students to join us for a day of dynamic discussions, creative presentations, and interdisciplinary exchange.

The conference is intended especially to support the development of student researchers in early stages.

This year鈥檚 theme, Encoded Worlds, invites broad and imaginative interpretations. We encourage participants to explore how meaning, identity, power, and resistance are structured, or disrupted, through various cultural, technological, media, and communicative systems.

We are particularly interested in research and creative work that addresses:

• How media systems encode cultural norms or biases
• The relationship between communication infrastructures and power
• Interventions that reimagine dominant narratives or reframe access
• Artistic or scholarly methods for decoding or reconfiguring systems

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Smart cities, urban imaginaries, and spatial politics
• Surveillance, data, and algorithmic bias
• Postcolonial and Indigenous media practices
• Visual culture, spectatorship, and representation
• Popular music, soundscapes, and sonic resistance
• Media infrastructures and digital governance
• Environmental media, petrocultures, and sustainability
• Communication policy and cultural regulation
• Creative practice as research
• Media and conflict, peacebuilding, and misinformation

We welcome proposals for:

• Paper Presentations
• Poster Presentations
• Creative Artwork (film, multimedia, installation, performance, etc.)

Both ongoing and completed research or creative projects are welcome. Presentations will be grouped into small sessions of 3 or 4 presenters.

Each presenter will have up to 15 minutes to present their work. After all presentations within the session are finished, the moderator will facilitate a brief Q&A and discussion, engaging with both the presenters and the audience.

Deadline/Notification

• Submit your proposal by 4:30 p.m. (ET) on Monday, November 10, 2025
  To submit, please complete the )
• You will be notified of the status of your submission by Friday, November 21, 2025.

Conference location

快播视频
Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building (DB), Lower Level
86 Fine Arts Rd., North York, Ontario M3J 3M6

This is an in-person event. There is no fee to attend or present at the conference. Please note that we are unable to reimburse travel or related expenses.

For Inquiries

Contact us at cmctgpa@yorku.ca and comcult@torontomu.ca for any questions or further information.

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The Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture is an annual event at 快播视频 that brings a major intellectual figure in the areas of critical and cultural studies to York for a public lecture. It was initiated in 2000 to honour the memory of the late Ioan Davies, Professor of Sociology at York with a lecture that engaged some of the concerns of his very diverse scholarship. See the lecture website for information about the Lecture and previous lecturers.

Please join us for the 2022 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture on Monday 21 March 2022, 13:00 EDT (note new date!!)

for the event!

This year鈥檚 invited lecturer is Dr. Ayesha Hameed, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London. Her work explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figure of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Her Afrofuturist approach combines performance, sound essays, videos, and lectures. Hameed examines the mnemonic power of these media 鈥� their capacity to transform the body into a body that remembers. The motifs of water, borders, and displacement, recurrent in her work, offer a reflection on migration stories and materialities, and, more broadly, on the relations between human beings and what they imagine as nature. Her talk 鈥淥f Sea Changes and Other Futurisms鈥� will expand on two of her recent long term research-creation projects: Black Atlantis and Brown Atlantis.

"Of Sea Changes and Other Futurisms" explores two long term projects. The first, Black Atlantis, is a speculative exploration of the relationship between the transatlantic slave trade, contemporary illegalised migration, and the watery environment of the ocean below. It is a multi-part sound, video, performance and scholarly project that combines two conversations - Afrofuturism and the anthropocene. The second, Brown Atlantis, is a new project which extends the speculative methodology produced for Black Atlantis to look at the ecologies of the Indian Ocean world with histories of indenture and slavery. It looks at the Indian and Atlantic Oceans together as a site of both indentured and slave labour. Inspired by Chimurenga鈥檚 publication Festac 鈥�77, it considers the book as a form of technology, and imagines what it would look like if it was invented in Africa.

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