[ecrea] cfp: conference on : communication, postcoloniality, and social justice: decolonizing imaginations

COMMUNICATION, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: DECOLONIZING 
IMAGINATIONS.
A FOUR DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.  Please join us for the landmark 
event!
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:  SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Sponsored by the Waterhouse Family Institute, Villanova University, 
Pennsylvania, USA.
The following URL/LINK provides all details:  http://wfi2015.vucommdept.com/

About the Conference
In the past two decades, postcolonial theory has become increasingly 
influential in various spaces in the Social Sciences and Humanities. 
Recent communication and media scholarship has also shown some interest 
in postcolonial frameworks. However, there has not been a focused and 
sustained conversation in Communication/Media Studies in the United 
States and we think, even outside, that has engaged the ways in which 
communication and media studies, and postcolonial studies can mutually 
inform each other in the advancement of social justice projects. The 
conference emerges from the recognition that diverse logics, networks, 
and trajectories of communication and media today (as well as in the 
past) play a significant role in the production of colonial power 
relations in contemporary globality. The organizers of "Communication, 
Postcoloniality and Social Justice: Decolonizing Imaginations"  thus 
invite proposals from scholars who employ postcolonial frameworks to 
study various communication and media phenomena—including their 
embedded-ness in various logics of transnationality. We are interested 
in exploring how communication/media scholarship, with its varied rich 
perspectives, may make contributions to broad field of postcolonial 
studies by foregrounding the importance of communication/media 
frameworks for understanding colonial cultures, and transnational 
relations. At the same time we recognize that many of the core concepts 
and assumptions in the fields of Communication and Media Studies are 
rooted in Western/Northern exclusionary intellectual frameworks. Thus, 
we wish to explore how postcolonial analytical frameworks may 
productively enrich our understandings of various communication and 
media phenomena and enable us to decolonize normative frameworks in the 
field so as to be responsive to various struggles engendered by 
contemporary (and past) post/colonial logics. The conference aims to 
provide a productive space that can facilitate dialogue and 
interconnections amongst scholars conducting postcolonial scholarship in 
communication and media studies. We also hope that this conference can 
provide a space for building intellectual solidarities amongst scholars 
in Media and Communication who are concerned with the politics of 
colonialisms (including their varied transnational logics) as they 
inform our research and influence our social, economic, cultural, and 
academic practices.

1)  KEYNOTE  SPEAKERS:  Professors Arjun Appadurai, Inderpal Grewal, 
Ravi Sundaram

2)  Fifteen distinguished plenary speakers:  Sandra Ponzanesi, Shanti 
Kumar; Ramaswamy Harindranath; Nitin Govil; Raka Shome; Radhika 
Parameswaran; Anikó Imre; Sudeep Dasgupta; John Nguyet Erni; Audrey Yue; 
May Joseph; Ramesh Srinvasan; D. Soyini Madison; Mohan Dutta; Boulou 
Ebanda DE B’Beri

There will be three PLENARY THEMES on which the plenary speakers will 
present their arguments.
1) Significance of Postcolonial/Transnational Studies for Media and 
Communication Scholarship

2)  Postcolonial Feminist and Queer Approaches

3)  Logics of “Modern/ity” beyond the West/North



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