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Hello, it's a gentle reminder. The abstract deadline (<u>20 Jan 2026 ) </u>for COMET 2026 is fast approaching, but we still have five days. </div>
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<b>From:</b> COMET2026<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 20, 2025 1:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> COMET2026 <comet2026@yokohama-cu.ac.jp><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Srikant Kumar Sarangi <sarangi@ikp.aau.dk>; comet@utorontopress.com <comet@utorontopress.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> COMET2026: 2nd Call for Proposals (Extended till 20 Jan 2026)</div>
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Hello, COMET 2026 CfP is now extended till <u>20 Jan 2026</u>.</div>
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<b>CALL FOR PROPOSALS</b></div>
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We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the <b>24th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET 2026)</b>, which will be hosted by
<b>Yokohama City University, Japan during 5-7 August, 2026</b>. The conference will be held entirely in person in Yokohama.</div>
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The COMET conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the dissemination of ongoing research in language/discourse/ communication
studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.</div>
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The proposal submission deadline is <b><s>20 December 2025</s></b>. Extended till
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<span style="color: black;">The Pre-COMET Masterclass is scheduled for <b>4 August, 2026</b>, and will be delivered by Professor Srikant Sarangi. For more information, see
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<b>Prof. Kazue Nakajima</b> (Executive Assistant to the President, Osaka University Hospital, Japan)<br>
<b>Prof. Nelya Koteyko</b> (Professor of Language Communication, Queen Mary University of London, UK)</div>
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<b>Prof. Srikant Sarangi</b> (Professor in Language and Communication and Director of Health Communication Research Centre, Cardiff University, UK )</div>
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client¡Vprofessional encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, speech and language therapists, psychotherapists etc.)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
communicating risk and uncertainty</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
communication in chronic disease</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
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distributed expertise among professionals and clients</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
disturbed patient</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
ethics and communication</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
evidence in diagnosis and non-diagnosis</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
health and disability</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
health, wellbeing and the lifespan</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
health literacy</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
health technologies and medical informatics</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
healthcare services and organisations</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
interpreter-mediated healthcare delivery</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
intercultural communication in health</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
interprofessional communication and hospital management systems</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
media and health communication</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
medical education</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
mental illness</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
narratives of illness experience</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
patient centricity</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
patient empowerment</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
public understanding of health and illness</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
quality of life and quality of care</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
representation of the body</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
research ethics</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
simulated patient training</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
(shared) decision making</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
tailoring health messages</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
telemedicine</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
artificial intelligence in healthcare</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54pt;">
values and responsibilities in professional practice</li></ul>
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<b>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:</b></div>
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Proposals include panels, individual presentations (oral or poster) and work-in-progress sessions.<br>
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<b>1. PANELS</b></div>
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Panels should address a common theme, content or methodological area, and will be scheduled for 90 minutes or multiples of 90 minutes. A 90-minute panel usually includes 3 individual presentations, plus a brief introduction and preferably time allocated for
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For panel submissions, please include a) an overview description of no more than 300 words (including references), highlighting the panel¡¦s content and objectives, and including 3-5 key words; b) an abstract of no more than 250 words (including references)
for each individual presentation within the panel. Also provide information about the panel members and the coordinator, including full institutional addresses and emails. Please indicate how many 90-minute slots you are requesting.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Submit your panel proposal via e-mail with subject header ¡§COMET 2026 Panel Proposal¡¨ to
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<b>2. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS (ORAL OR POSTER)</b></div>
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Proposals for individual papers (no more than 250 words, including references) must clearly indicate a preference for oral or poster presentation. Following the peer review process, the organisers will determine whether a proposal is selected for oral or poster
presentation. There will be an opportunity for all poster presenters to briefly outline their main argument in a panel session in 2-3 minutes each prior to the poster viewing session. Poster presenters must be physically present both at the panel session and
at their poster board to discuss their work during the dedicated sessions.</div>
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Oral presentations will typically be scheduled in blocks of 90 minutes to contain 3 presentations, with 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion) allocated to each individual presentation.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Submit your proposal for individual paper via </b>
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<b>3. WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSIONS</b></div>
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Proposals for work-in-progress should be no more than 250 words (including references), targeted at oral presentation. The presentations will be in blocks of 60 minutes, with individual presentations lasting 20 minutes (15 minutes for presentation + 5 minutes
for discussion). This format is particularly suitable for early career researchers pursuing doctoral and postdoctoral studies and for experienced researchers undertaking/planning pilot projects or interested in reporting preliminary findings.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Submit your proposal for work-in-progress via </b>
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<b>PROPOSAL REVIEW AND SELECTION CRITERIA</b></div>
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All proposals, except panel proposals, undergo a double-blind peer-review process. For panels, the reviewers will have access to the names of the panel coordinators and the panellists.</div>
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<b>Please note that COMET conference policy is one main oral presentation per presenter. You may choose to submit more than one proposal, but normally only one proposal will be accepted for oral presentation. An additional accepted proposal may be presented
as poster. Any individual presenter ¡V even as part of a team ¡V is limited to one oral presentation and one poster presentation. The policy of ¡¥one oral presentation per participant¡¦ is relaxed in the case of a second oral presentation in the invited forum.</b></div>
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There is no fixed format for writing proposals, but we suggest the following structure:
<b>Background </b>(including findings from and absences in previous literature); <b>
Aims/Objectives</b> (including research question); <b>Methodology </b>(research design, type of data, participants, analytical framework);
<b>Results/Findings</b>; and <b>Conclusion </b>(including practical relevance).</div>
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Please note that the following criteria will form the <b>basis for peer review</b>:</div>
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originality of the topic and its relevance to the conference</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: 18.56px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
background contextualisation of the study</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: 18.56px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
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theoretical/methodological appropriateness</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; line-height: 18.56px; margin: 0px 0px 8pt 36pt;">
clarity of claims and relevance</li></ul>
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Individual panels are reviewed without anonymisation in their entirety on the above criteria but also on the basis of their relevance to broader issues in communication, medicine, and ethics; the overall coherence of the proposal; and the usefulness of the
panel to participants.</div>
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Decisions about acceptance/rejection will be communicated <b>by early March, 2026</b>. Following formal acceptance, the responsible (presenting) authors must register their participation. The
<b>Registration deadlines and the registration fees will be published in early March</b>.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Please visit the <b>COMET 2026 website </b></span><span style="color: blue;"><b><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" title="https://www-user.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/~comet/wordpress/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAfefe2e1d-1848-f70f-d738-18225a1c607b" href="https://www-user.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/~comet/wordpress/">https://www-user.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/~comet/wordpress/</a></u></b></span><span style="color: black;"><b><u> </u></b>for
further details regarding submission guidelines or for additional information about the conference.</span></div>
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The Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of COMET 2026</div>
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