Conference Information

The CCA annual conference will be held at the 2025 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, from June 2 to 5.

For information about how to attend, see the CFP documents below.

CCA 2025 Call for Papers (English)

ACC 2025 Appel à Contributions (Français)

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Sarah Sharma, “All the Insufferable Tools”

Wednesday 4 June, 2:30-4pm, WFL-333, 335

The conference will feature a keynote lecture, “All the Insufferable Tools,” by Dr. Sarah Sharma, Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto.

Dr. Sharma’s research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology, time and labour with a specific focus on issues related to gender, race, and class. In 2024 she was awarded a Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is the author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014). Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022. Sarah’s next book Insufferable Tools: Big Tech and the Broken Machine  is forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2025.

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