Congress Organizers Update - April 28, 2022

Upcoming deadlines

  • Ongoing: Verify your association information on the Congress website is correct 
  • April 29: Submit final changes to your open events   
  • May 1: Submit your Virtual Congress Dependent Care Subsidy applications 
  • May 6: Check registration reports

Submit final changes to your open events by tomorrow 

Planning Guide: section 4.2.3 

You have until tomorrow to make any final changes to open sessions by filling out an Open Event Listing Form via the Organizers Portal. All open events are published in the calendar of open events

Check registration reports 

For all scheduled speakers and panelists to have access to their booked events, they must be registered for your conference prior to Congress. Your association has until May 6 to ensure that all your scheduled speakers are present in the Registration Report, accessible through the Organizers Portal. Speakers who have not registered will not be able to log onto the platform where their event is taking place.     

Service centres

Planning Guide: section 7.2 

We have created two services centres to help speakers and attendees navigate their way through Congress. The Speaker Service Centre provides information to aid speakers in the preparation of Congress and during Congress. The Attendee Service Centre provides valuable information for all registered attendees to make the most of their experience at Congress 2022.

Presenting the Big Thinking lineup 

Our Big Thinking lineup is almost complete, please ensure your members make time to attend the Big Thinking lectures during Congress.

  • May 12, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET - speaker to be announced 
  • May 13, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET - Dr. Christine Vézina 
  • May 16, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET - Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva 
  • May 19, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET - Petrocultures 

Denise Ferreira da Silva and Christine Vézina join the Big Thinking lineup

We are pleased to announce two new entries into the Big Thinking lineup at Congress 2022: Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva and Dr. Christine Vézina

Don't miss 'Shift in thinking: It all begins with decolonization' by Professor and former Director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC, Denise Ferreira da Silva on Monday, May 16, 2022, from 12:00 – 13:00 ET.  

Mark your calendars for Beyond the "crime of in solidarity": Elements for reflection for a transition based on economic and social rights by Christine Vézina, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Université Laval, who works on socio-economic and health injustices, on Friday, May 13, 2022, at 12 pm ET

Please let your members know that access to Big Thinking lectures is included in their registration. Read more.

The Big Thinking lecture series is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Universities Canada, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. 


 

Congress is organized in partnership with:

Social Science Humanities and Research Council | Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines 

Mitacs 

Canada Foundation of Innovation | Foundation canadienne pour l'innovation 

Universities Canada| Universités Canada 

SAGE Publishing