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I am passing along an opportunity that might be of interest.

OTESSA is the Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association, and the 2023 conference will be held from May 27-June 2 as part of Congress 2023 (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences). The OTESSA call for proposals has been extended to January 31, and there are opportunities to present in-person (in Toronto) and online.

Here is the invitation:

We would like to share that we have an extended Call for Proposals for participation in OTESSA 2023 due January 31^st.

Only 250-500 words are needed for a research-oriented or practice-oriented proposal. If you wish to publish as well, you can submit a proceeding (1000-2000 words – or media) now or at any later date. Please make sure the new templates are used and submission information is reviewed on our conference submission portal. We also have opportunities available for people to submit full articles to the OTESSA Journal.

Please note that we have made a precedent-making arrangement with Congress organizers (from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences) in that we will have online-only days available within our program as well as the days hosted on campus at York University. This will be an exciting time for us to explore and experiment how to build community and connection across all participations in OTESSA 2023. Our schedule will be as follows:

May 27 – Online only sessions (and keynote)

May 28 – No sessions (gap day/travel day)

May 29/30/31 – Sessions and keynotes on site at York University (we will be making these sessions as accessible as possible through sharing of materials and audio or video streams or recordings)

June 1 – No sessions (gap day/travel day)

June 2 – Online only sessions (and keynote)

We are excited to start and close our conference together in the same mode. We welcome any of our members who wish to join a planning committee to work out particulars to contact us at conference@otessa.org. We are very proud to be creating this precedence at Congress as it will allow our members who wish to present online to be able to do so without any co-presenter-on-campus counterpart. This advances inclusion for all of our members. We received 3x the submissions for our first call and we hope to see this trend continue with our second and final call due January 31^st. Approximately half of our submissions are requesting to be on site and half are requesting to be online. Please do spread the word of our final call as growing our community will help to give us the support needed to further advance our goals, systems, and operations to build out our community and advocacy for our field in ways that support both research and practice.

We would like to remind our members that registration waivers and discounts are available, so please do not let financial resources block your participation in OTESSA. For information, please reach out to conference@otessa.org

Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you at OTESSA 2023!

	Amanda Grey, MLIS (she/her) Open Education Strategist, Teaching & Learning Commons Kwantlen Polytechnic University e amanda.grey@kpu.ca w www.kpu.ca/open
I live, work, and play in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples. Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action