Convergences Applications

Although it is no longer Valentine’s Day, love is still in the air! The submission deadline for Convergences closed on February 8, 2021, and the CYUT team is pleased to announce that our CFP has received a lot of love and attention. We currently have 57 submissions from PhD and MA students as well as …

Extending the call for submissions

So far we have received more than 30 submissions from people across Canada in English and French, as well as from the United States, Italy, Iran, and we are looking forward to more! We are so grateful for the responses we have received to our call for papers that we have decided to extend the …

Keynote Announced!

The Convergence Committee is excited to announce that Dr Funké Aladejebi, has accepted our keynote invitation. The selection of our keynote was a month-long process where committee members put forth candidates whom they believed fit with the conference theme of “Confronting Crisis: Writing History in Uncertain Times.” Beginning in December 2020, we had 12 potential keynote …

New Year, New Hopes

Welcome to the first blog post of 2021!  Hopefully we will have our registration information up soon so those who don’t want to give talks at the conference can register to participate and listen to what will be fascinating and cutting-edge talks on Crisis. I am writing to you in the middle of our own …

CPF Finalized!

We are your benevolent Convergences leaders, Kate (she/her) and Angela (she/her), in our first of many blog posts for Convergences. We’ve finally got the CFP and the website ready for visitors! It’s been a tough journey in 2020, especially coming out of the pandemic and trying to not just survive, but thrive, in the fall …