[ecrea] Historiography as Intervention: Communicating Across Geographies, Communities & Divides

The Communication History Interest Group

<http://communicationhistory.org/>of the International Communication
Association is pleased to invite you to Historiography
as Intervention: Communicating Across Geographies, Communities&
Divides<http://communicationhistory.org/precon/>.




This ICA preconference will be held May 24, 2012, from 8:30-17:30 at the
conference hotel, the Phoenix Sheraton Downtown, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.



The day=92s planned events include:

- Keynote address by Anna
Everett<http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/everett/everett.htm=
l>,
Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California at Santa
Barbara

- Invited scholar panel, =93What Counts as Communication History?=94
featuring Norma
Coates<http://www.music.uwo.ca/faculty/bios/nCoates.html>, Associate
Professor, Don Wright Faculty of Music and Faculty of Information and Media
Studies, University of Western Ontario; Robert
McChesney<http://www.communication.illinois.edu/faculty/people/rwmcches/>,
Gutsgell Professor of Communication, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign; and David
Serlin<http://communication.ucsd.edu/PeoplePages/DavidSerlin.html>,
Associate Professor of Communication, University of California San Diego

- Interactive Korsakow System<http://korsakow.org/>  documentary by Mary
Elizabeth Luka

- Paper presentations from South Africa, Israel, Mexico, Canada, and the
United States on recovered histories, critical practice, policy
engagements, and interdisciplinarity

 Register now at the ICA website
<http://www.icahdq.org/conf/confreg.asp>for Preconference #11.
Preconference is limited to 100 persons. $100
registration fee includes morning and afternoon refreshments.



*Tentative Schedule (Subject to Change):*

* *

*8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.:  Arrival and setup*

* *

*8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m.:  Welcoming remarks*

* *

*8:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m.:  Invited Discussion: *

*What Counts as Communication History?*

*Panelists:*

*Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario*

*Robert McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*

*David Serlin, University of California, San Diego*

* *

*10:00-10:10 a.m.: Break*

* *

*10:10 a.m.-11:25: Roundtable 1 *

*Weighing the Past, Projecting a Future: Practicing Critical
Communication History In Dangerous Times*

*Janice Peck, =93Critical Historical Research as the Negation of the Past i=
n
the Name of the Future=94*

*           Inger Stole, =93From Culture Shock to Scholarly Pursuit=94*

*           Jason Loviglio, "NPR and =91The Great Moving Right Show=92=94*

*           Carol Stabile, =93The Personal is Historical: Feminist Media
Studies, Historical Materialism and Experience=94*

*           Steve Macek,  =93=91A Good Dose of Tear Gas=92: On the Dialecti=
cal
Connection Between Critical History and Radical Activism=94*

* *

*11:25 a.m.-12:40 p.m.: Roundtable 2 *

*Counterhistories, Contradictions, and Contestations: Recovering the Past
to Remake the Present** *

*           Mariano E. Navarro and Jose Luis Ortiz, =93Magical towns vs.
Middletown: Reassessing Tepoztl=E1n=92s Place in Communication Historiograp=
hy=94*

*           Ben Peters, =93Technological Utopianism in Early Soviet Network=
s=94*

*           Alison Trope, =93Another Side of Hollywood: Locating the Roots =
of
Hollywood Philanthropy=94*

*           Terra Eggink, =93Of Pre and Post, Human and Non: The Case of
Animal Trials=94*

*           Fred Fejes, =93The Fort Lauderdale LGBT Community: Real and
Imagined=94 *

*           Abiodun Salawu, "=91Not Iwe Irohin but Umshumayeli=92: A Revisi=
t of
the Historiography of the Early African Language Press=94 *

* *

*12:40 p.m. -1:40 p.m.:  Lunch and Interactive Screening Exhibit*

*Retelling or Recalling?: Generating a Counterhistory of CBC Artspots  *

*Get a hands-on experience with this Mary Elizabeth Luka and her rough-cut
documentary, made using Korsakow System software for interactive, nonlinear
database films. *

* *

*1:40 p.m.-2:55 p.m.: Roundtable 3*

*Praxis in Pluralistic Fields: Engaging Transdisciplinarity *

*Vicki Mayer, =93Placing Everyday Culture: Lessons from MediaNOLA=94*

*           Peter Schaefer, =93Why is =91Ether=92 in the =91Ethernet=92?=94=
*

*           Carolyn Kane,  =93Cool Pinks and Hot Blues: Bridging Genealogie=
s
of Warm=96Cool Color=94 *

*           Lauren M. Bratslavsky and Benjamin J. Birkinbine,
=93(Re)Discovering the Analog: Investigating Archives in the Age of
Digitization=94 *

*           Josh Lauer, =93Against Progress: Media Archaeology and Historic=
al
Representation=94*

*           Christopher A. House, =93Religious Rhetoric(s) of the African
Diaspora: Using Oral History to Study HIV/AIDS, Community, and Rhetorical
Interventions=94*

* *

*2:55 p.m.-4:05 p.m.: Roundtable 4: *

*Policy and Priorities: From Insights to Action *

*Stephanie Ricker Schulte, =93The Singularity: Solving and Scapegoating
History=94*

*           Michael Dick, =93A Case for Historiographic Innovation:
Interrogating the Narratives of the Federated Social Web Initiative=94*

*           Yasuhito Abe,   =93Historicizing the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis i=
n
Japan=94  *

*           Mandy Troger, =93Free Markets for Free Media? Learning from U.S=
.
Media Policies in Post-WII Germany=94*

*           Aharon Ariel Lavi, =93The Price of Thinking Ahead: Lessons from
the Israeli case of the Commission for Future Generations (2001-2006)=94*

*           Ryan Ellis, =93The Premature Death of Electronic Mail: The Unit=
ed
States Postal Service=92s E-COM Program, 1978-1984=94*

* *

*4:05 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.:  Break*

* *

*4:15 p.m. =96 5:30 p.m. Featured Lecture:  *

*Anna Everett, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of
California, Santa Barbara*

* *

*Preconference Organizers**: D. Travers Scott, Clemson University, and
Devon Powers, Drexel University.*

*Contact**: D. Travers Scott, (dscott3 /at/ g.clemson.edu)*



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