As graduate students, we commonly receive emails about submitting an essay to present at a conference. But how do we respond? What are conference organizers looking for? How do I present at a conference?

The CGSA is hosting a seminar for graduate students on Thursday, February 4^th at 6pm, in KED B004. Professor Peruvemba Jaya will be discussing how to respond to call for papers (CFP) and conference presentation skills.

If you have a call for papers you are thinking of responding to, bring a copy and Professor Jaya will answer your questions about that specific CFP.

Where: KED B004

(585 King Edward Avenue, building across from Department of Communication)

When: Thursday, February 4^th 6-8pm

Refreshments will be served.

CGSA Wine & Cheese Invitation

Please join us at Nostaligica on January 26th between 5-7 for a welcome back Wine and Cheese with professors and students to help us celebrate the launch of our new logo.

The Details:

Who: students and professors in the communication program

What: Wine & Cheese

Where: Nostaligica

When: January 26th 5-7 pm

Why: Meet the new students! Talk to a professor! Celebrate the new CGSA logo! Have a glass of wine and some food on the CGSA!

Dear Graduate Students,

On December 8th, the University announced a new comprehensive open access program that supports free and unrestricted access to scholarly research.

Open access publishing represents a new way of disseminating research, and provides scholars with an opportunity to extend the reach of their research and to increase its impact.

As part of this program, an Author Fund has been established to help authors defray open access fees charged by some publishers. This Fund is available to all members of the university community, including graduate students.

If you submit a research article to a journal and it is accepted for publication through peer-review, you can request funding to pay any fee associated with making the article openly accessible.

For more information on the Fund and on open access, consult our new Web site at http://oa.uottawa.ca/. You can now submit an online application for funding via this Web site.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Patrick Labelle, Scholarly Communication Librarian, at plabelle@uottawa.ca or at 613-562-5800, ext. 4563.

The CGSA is happy to invite you to our weekly sociable at FATHER AND SONS (112 Osgoode Street, at the
corner of King Edward) every Tuesday night starting at 8 pm. Our first
gathering will take place tomorrow, January 12th 2010. Come out and meet
other students in the communication program and take advantage of our food and beverage discounts.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Stay tuned for lots of events! Including a wine and cheese with the professors, new location for Tuesday nights and more academic sessions!

It is that time of year- school is almost done for the semester and with your feedback we have picked a date for the holiday party.

We are having an Ugly Sweater Holiday Party in Support of the Ottawa Food Bank.

Find your *ugliest* sweater and raid your cupboards of *non-perishable food items* (or make a trip to your local grocery store) and get ready to have some fun. We are asking students to bring 3 cans of food as admission to help us beat our goal of 150 pounds raised last year, the donations will be matched by the CGSA Executive.

Light snacks and refreshments will be served and prizes will be presented for most donations, ugliest sweater, most creative and MORE!

*The Nitty-Gritty Details: *

When: December 11th @ 8 pm

Where: 169 Lees Ave Apt# 414 (Home of the CGSA President)

Admission: 3 Cans of Non- perishable food items (To be matched by the CGSA Executive)

Light Snacks & Refreshments will be served!

There will be PRIZES!!!!!! (Who doesn’t like prizes)

Join us for the inaugural Intercom – a lunchtime speaker series at uOttawa:

Journalism and freedom of the media in Afghanistan

Maisam Najafizada is an M.A. candidate at the University of Ottawa. He will be speaking on his experiences as a journalist in Afghanistan, journalism before and after 9/11, as well as negotiating freedom of the media.

Maisam worked as a media monitor the BBC in Afghanistan for six years. He was also a freelance journalist for various international organizations including, Der Spiegel Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor. He has an MD from the medical school of Balkh University in northern Mazar-e Sharif city.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Brooks Residence, Room 202
100 Thomas-More
12:00 – 1:30pm

Intercom is an opportunity for anyone (students, faculty, professionals) from the communication community to gather over lunch, present papers, get feedback, network, and exchange ideas. Organized by a group of graduate students from the Department of Communication, Intercom is an excellent opportunity for students and professionals doing interdisciplinary communication research to discuss new ideas while giving feedback on others’ work.

Hidden Resources on Campus Highlights:

On October 27th, the CGSA hosted its first academic seminar of the school year! We had three wonderful guest speakers. Olivia from the writing help centre and Louise & Consuela from the Grad Mentoring Centre. Here are just a few quick highlights if you missed the session. http://cgsa-aedc.ca/blog/

Reminder: Food donations needed!

Please help us out. The CGSA is organizing a food drive to support the Ottawa Food Bank. Last year was a success as we raised over 150 lbs of food, 50 lbs over our goal. This year will be bigger and better than ever! We have raised our goal for this year to 150 pounds of food. Again this year, the CGSA executive will match contributions made to the drive.

Please drop off any food at either location: 200 Wilbrod Street or 554 King Edward. There are boxes set-up for your donations.