Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that proposals for the graduate student panel at ABC are due this Saturday, March 15 (details are below). We’d love to learn more about your research. Please feel free to reach out to me with questions, and my apologies for cross posting.
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The Graduate Studies Committee of the Association for Business Communication (ABC) invites graduate students to submit proposals for the in-person Graduate Studies Sponsored Panel at our upcoming conference, the 90th Annual International Conference that will take place in person on October 15–18, 2025, in Long Beach, California. Graduate students will find a welcoming group of researchers, teachers, professionals, and fellow graduate students at the conference.
ABC is dedicated to graduate student development and provides numerous benefits to graduate students. These benefits include student pricing for conference registration fees, Student Travel Grants<https://www.businesscommunication.org/awards/all-awards/graduate-student-travel>, the Marty Baker Graham Research Grant<http://www.businesscommunication.org/page/graham>, an annual Outstanding Dissertation award<https://www.businesscommunication.org/awards/all-awards/dissertation>, and connections for the job search process.
Graduate students are often engaged in boundary-pushing and field-expanding work. This panel hopes to highlight those contributions of graduate students to business and professional communication scholarship. Within the context of business and professional communication, possible topics could relate to the following:
* innovative pedagogy
* digital communication
* social media
* visual communication
* interpersonal communication
* team communication
* crisis communication
* globalization
* ethics
* other topics of related interest
We are especially interested in proposals that focus on digital issues. These topics can be approached via a wide variety of theoretical lenses and methodological approaches.
To submit a proposal, submit a 500-word abstract to this form<https://forms.gle/o7h2gcVTkYnyDwqd9> by Saturday, March 15, 2025. Beyond your presentation title and abstract, the form will ask for your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a description of your presentation in 50 words or fewer that will be included in the program if your proposal is selected. You will receive a decision about your abstract by Monday, March 24, 2025. In the event that your abstract is not chosen for the panel, you will still have a week to submit it for consideration through the general call for proposals<https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/TABC/2a6341d8-64a1-4735-9839-09a0094bc417/UploadedImages/2025_Conferences/ABC_2025_CFP_with_instructions.pdf>, which has a deadline of Monday, March 31, 2025.
For more information about ABC and the Annual International Conference, visit the following sites:
Association for Business Communication: <https://www.businesscommunication.org>
ABC 2025 International Conference: <https://www.businesscommunication.org/conferences/2025conf>
Key dates
Submission of abstract deadline: Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time
Notification of panel acceptance: Monday, March 24, 2025
General call for proposals deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025
Conference dates: October 15–18, 2025