Last date for submission of paper: unknown; Contact person: Laura Velazquez and Sajad Yazdi; The Graduate Student Council of the Modern Languages and Cultural Studies department at the University of Alberta invites submissions for its annual Connections conference: (En)Forced (Mis)Connections 2020. We will be accepting academic and creative contributions that approach from a new perspective the (sometimes forced) connections (or disconnections) between communities, disciplines, cultures, languages, artistic works, and concepts; by questioning, challenging, and interpreting their significance. Academic panels will be grouped based on themes and are open to all disciplines across the Social Sciences and Humanities, including but not limited to fields such as Applied Linguistics, Translation, Literature, and Cultural Studies. The Graduate Student Council welcomes everyone working in those fields or related fields and strongly encourages new graduate students to participate.For the full Call For Papers, please visit https://mlcsconnections.wordpress.com/. Please submit your proposal by November 30th via the form on https://forms.gle/CktcrzdaGywhfYFc8. If you have any questions, feel free to contact [email protected]. Notifications will be sent by December 15th, 2019. Acceptance will be based on content quality, originality, and academic significance.