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GET READY FOR AAA PITTSBURGH 2025 March 6 - 9.

Deadline for competitive papers and special topics proposals October 1, 2024.

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Latest News and Current Calls

AAA Graduate Student Symposium, September 20, 2024 | Virtual (Zoom)

Current and prospective Advertising graduate students: Registration is now open for the AAA Graduate Student Symposium! In this one-day online symposium, faculty and current doctoral students from top AAA member institutions will provide their insights and strategies for success. Current doctoral students will get a peek behind the curtain of the academic job market and tips on how to navigate the process. Prospective doctoral students will learn more about the doctoral admissions process and get perspectives from faculty. Both current and prospective doctoral students will hear from doctoral candidates at leading AAA schools. Click HERE to see the full event schedule.

The event is free for doctoral students to attend with an active AAA student membership, and free for all master’s students regardless of membership status. If you are a doctoral student without a current AAA membership, please go to the AAA membership page to become an AAA student member before registering. Registration will close on September 13, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. CDT.

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For Current Journal Special Issue Calls, please click here

AAA Conference 2025 - Calls for Competitive Papers and Special Topics Sessions - October 1, 2024 deadline - click here
AAA Best Purpose Advertising Conference Paper Award Competition - October 1, 2024 deadline - click here
AAA Best DEI Advertising Conference Paper Award Competition - October 1, 2024 deadline - click here

2025 Research Fellowship Competition - September 13, 2024 deadline - click here
Call for 2025 AAA Officer Nominations - October 11, 2024 deadline - click here

Special Opportunities for Graduate Students:

2025 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition - November 1, 2024 deadline - click here
2025 Dunn Award Competition for International Research by Graduate Students - November 1, 2024 deadline - click here
2025 Graduate Student Non-Dissertation Award Competition - November 1, 2024 deadline - click here
2025 Graduate Student Conference Travel Scholarships - December 31, 2024 deadline - click here

Take Note!

Check out the September 2024 AAA Newsletter! Click here.
New JCIRA podcasts have been posted.

Listen to them on:
1. YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKkEP6-ZqQRwcAB2Ygd1v22GRWodiSDbm
2. The RSS website: https://jcira.buzzsprout.com/
3. Keyword search “Curious and Interesting” on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, and Spotify
Episodes include:
- The lost history of the American Academy of Advertising
- Using corporate accounts to build customer connections
- Persuasion knowledge and ad skepticism in adolescents who are black, immigrants, or refugees
- Consumer responses to CSR messages during COVID-19
- Balancing brand safety and user engagement on Reddit
- Ageism in advertising: Experiences across departments
Each episode is an open-access, two-minute, layman’s language summary of a paper to be published in JCIRA in the second issue of 2024