Call for Submissions: Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) Conference

Join us at the 2025 OSCLG conference (October 22-26, 2025), which will convene at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. The conference will feature interdisciplinary scholarship, performances, and activism around the theme of Muddy Waters. Being a few blocks away from the Mississippi River, this theme reminds us that our feminist work is not easy. Our next steps forward are not always clear. But our conviction keeps us moving. So, we find a way through even still.

Leaving the reenergizing springs of the feminist frontier, we wade out into the deep. With every step, we see the ripples of our hard work flow into the waters of scholarship. Just like Farias and Chuang (2014), we know that “it is because those waters are changed through our actions that we must continue accepting new and challenging opportunities. In doing so, we accept the expectations that our changes open new and hopefully more just ways of moving through these complex social systems” (p. 77).

Through the theme of Muddy Waters, we will explore the messiness of scholarly inquiry, the ebbs and flows of engaging in social change, the murkiness of the current political climate on feminist scholarship, and more. We invite submissions of papers, extended abstracts, panel sessions, roundtable discussions, creative projects, and performances that address any aspect of communication, language, and gender, and especially those based in intersectionality, trans-inclusivity, transnational feminism, and advocacy. We ask that individuals not exceed being included on more than two submissions. All submissions are due June 15, 2025, with decisions about acceptance expected by the end of July.

Farias, S. K., & Chuang, H.-Y. (S.) (2014). Special issue introduction: Coming to terms in the muddy waters of qualitative inquiry in communication studies. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, 13, Article 6. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope/vol13/iss1/6

You can submit to the conference here.

Please send any questions to Janine Armstrong, Ivy Fofie, and Natonya Listach at osclgsubmissions@gmail.com.