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2025 CPSA – Conference’s Format
The 2025 CPSA Annual Conference will be held in person from Tuesday, June 3 to Thursday, June 5 at George Brown College, Toronto.
All conference participants, paper-givers, poster and three minute thesis contestants must be prepared to attend the events and to make their presentations in person. - Presentations can be made in either English or French.
- Papers for the Conference – Deadline: May 23, 2025
- Papers should be SINGLE SPACED, not exceeding the word count of 12,000 and should not have been previously published.
- Complete your paper and email it to the relevant section head and the chair, discussant and participants in your session by May 23, 2025. E-mail addresses will be available in the on-line programme (right-click on their names in your session description to copy/paste their e-mail addresses).
- Authors are reminded to include a note on their on-line paper indicating that their paper not be cited without permission from the author.
- Failure to comply with the above mentioned deadline can result in the chair excluding the presentation from the session.
- Further, discussants will be under no obligation to comment on the papers if they are not given a reasonable amount of time to read them. Such an action would be a loss to all attending the session.
- Discussing or Chairing a Panel
Presenters will be considered as possible chairs or discussants. Given that a successful conference depends on having, not only paper-givers, but chairs and discussants, the CPSA strongly encourages participants to proactively offer their services in either/both of these roles to any of our 21 section heads and/or be willing if a request is made. - Grants: CPSA Travel Grants - Deadline: February 15, 2025
- The CPSA will provide travel grants to assist members to come to the annual meeting from distant places. These funds are intended to especially facilitate participation by junior members.
- Read the Travel Grant Policy [ download pdf ↓ ] carefully before submitting your proposal to check your eligibility.
- Travel Grant Application Form [ download pdf ↓ ].
- Request a Letter of Invitation.
International attendees must contact the CPSA Office cpsa-acsp@cpsa-acsp.ca to request a letter of invitation. Click HERE for more information. - Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) - Deadline: February 28, 2025
This award was created by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to help facilitate the participation of graduate students in Congress activities and conferences.
The terms, prize amount and eligibility of this award will be announced in early January 2025. - CPSA Annual Membership Fees
- PAPERS’ AUTHORS AND CO-AUTHORS - POSTER AND 3MT CONTESTANTS
EACH paper’s author, co-author*, poster and three-minute thesis (3MT) competitions contestant must be a member in good standing of the CPSA (i.e., pay the 2025 CPSA annual membership fees) by March 31, 2025, or see their name removed from the programme by Friday, April 11, 2025.
* Note that co-authors must be members in good standing of the CPSA (i.e., pay the 2025 membership fees) by March 31, 2025, whether they are attending the conference or not.
The CPSA Office will contact non-compliant papers’ authors, co-authors, poster or 3MT contestants regarding their membership status after March 31, 2025.
For more information and exemptions read the Membership Guidelines [ download pdf ↓ ]. - CHAIRS, DISCUSSANTS AND ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS
Colleagues attending ONLY as chairs, discussants and roundtable participants are not required to become CPSA members but are warmly invited to join the CPSA.
Colleagues who choose not to join the CPSA, must register to the conference paying the NON-MEMBER fee.
CPSA Membership Fees can be found HERE. CPSA Annual Membership Fees are INDEPENDENT from the conference registration fees.
- Congress and CPSA Conference Registratrion Fees
Registration for both the Congress and the CPSA conference will open in January 2025 HERE.
- The CPSA conference will be held during the 2025 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (Congress).
- Each person attending the CPSA conference must register for both the Congress and the CPSA conference.
- Paper presenters, poster and 3MT contestants must register by the early bird registration deadline of March 31, 2025, or see their name removed from the programme by Friday, April 11, 2025.
- Each conference participant is responsible for travel arrangements. For more information, go to Plan Your Trip in the 2025 Congress website.
2025 Programme Committee Workshops Submission and Type of Proposals Participation Information and Fees Conference Documents
| 2025 CPSA Deadlines and Important Dates | |
| Deadline to submit your proposals | November 8, 2024 @ 11:59 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time) |
| Submission outcome notification | December 2024 |
| Deadline CPSA Membership Fees | March 31, 2025 |
| Deadline Registration (early bird) | March 31, 2025 |
| Paper for the conference | May 23, 2025 |
| Conference dates | June 3 to 5, 2025 |