La revue Voix amplifées: Call for papers
Challenges, dynamics and influence of research in French
Mar 25, 2025 — All day
Join us in exploring the challenges, dynamics, and influence of research in French. Graduate students are invited to submit a 250-word abstract for the next issue of La revue Voix amplifées by March 25, 2025.
Overview
Francophone institutions in anglophone majority contexts are called to innovate for linguistic sustainability and identity, welcoming a growing immigrant population, and promoting quality French-language education. In the academia, research in French is also challenged by the predominance of English as the language of recognition and dissemination. In this context, we must consider the place and value of research in French. How can inquisitive minds — either as emerging or experienced researchers — reinvent our sense of belonging in francophone scientific spheres and work to meet these challenges?
La revue Voix amplifées is an academic journal created by francophone graduate students from the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education. The journal is focused on creating a space where francophone student voices can be heard, deconstructed and redefined. Based on the principles of equity and inclusion, the journal has a dual mandate to open inclusive dialogues about the complex realities experienced within the student community, and to offer publication opportunities to members of the francophone and francophile student population, whether they are unilingual, bilingual or plurilingual. The inaugural issue was published in 2022 and is an initiative supported by CARFfi – Les chantiers d’action et de recherches.
Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts of 250 words by March 25th.
Writing workshop
In collaboration with Professor Megan Cotnam-Kappel, holder of the Research Chair on Digital Thriving in Franco-Ontarian Communities, a hybrid writing workshop will be held to build community and support participants' creative planning and writing process.
Date forthcoming.
Megan Cotnam-Kappel
Professor, University of Ottawa
Professor Megan Cotnam-Kappel holds the Research Chair on Digital Thriving in Franco-Ontarian Communities and is an associate professor and expert in educational technology and minority-language education in the Faculty of Education. She received doctoral degrees from l’Université de Corse Pascal Paoli and the University of Ottawa. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research agenda targets the empowerment of youth and teachers through the development of their digital literacy skills. Her particular research interests include the development of skills related to the Maker movement and coding as well as digital citizenship. She is deeply committed to teaching and research that aims to close the digital use divide for minority groups across Canada.Professor Cotnam-Kappel is a member of the CHENINE team and a researcher with the Canadian Playful Schools Network (CPSN). She is the principal investigator of the Exploring the Digital Lives of Youth project.
