[ecrea] MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Annual Conference

Call for Papers - Borders and Boundaries: Territories, Technologies, 
Transgressions; The MeCCSA PGN conference 2017*

Venue: Goldsmiths College, London
Date: 26-27 June, 2017
Deadline for submissions: 21 March, 2017

Confirmed keynotes speakers: Prof Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, MeCCSA 
chair), Prof Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Prof Susan 
Clayton (Goldsmiths), Dr Myria Georgiou (LSE)

*Travel grants available - all details at meccsapgn2017.com*
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Our world is in the grip of a series of interrelated crises, many of 
which involve the creation, collapse and reconstitution of borders and 
boundaries – territorial (the “refugee crisis”, new forms of extractive 
neo-colonialism), socio-spatial (urban restructuring, segregation and 
displacement,) political (Brexit, Trump, the rise of the far-right 
globally) and personal (self-tracking, automated surveillance and 
digital labour). Even as some borders appear weakened due to 
technological change and the increased fluidity of social identities, 
new boundaries around national identity and ethnicity are erected in 
their place. The fracturing of the neoliberal consensus since 2008 has 
challenged conceptual boundaries relating to the economy, society and 
the role of the state, but no coherent alternative set of ideas has yet 
become apparent, let alone dominant. In Gramsci’s words, “the old is 
dying and the new cannot be born.”

Borders and Boundaries: Territories, Technologies, Transgressions 
locates itself in this historical moment, seeking to explore the forces 
of deterritorialization and reterritorialization active in this 
conjuncture. This conference – organised by postgraduate students from 
the London School of Economics and Political Science and Goldsmiths 
College – seeks to disrupt and destabilise boundaries while creating 
productive border­-zones where cultures and disciplines can interact. We 
invite academics, students, activists, artists and other interested 
people to submit proposals on a wide variety of themes related to the 
conference title including, but not limited to:

- Ideologies and hegemonies: techniques and practices of power 
(including: development and reproduction of dominant media narratives; 
statecraft; othering and erection of conceptual borders; participation 
as collusion and co-optation)
- Oppositional communicative practices: participation, protest and 
rebellion: (including: established and alternative forms of 
participation; the capacity of technologies to break boundaries and 
challenge hierarchies; social movement and protest politics)
- Alternative and community media practices: transgressions and 
challenges: (including: media and communicative practices of oppressed 
and marginalised groups; creation, disruption, rearticulation and 
reconstitution of personal and collective identities)
- Altered media landscapes: political economies and technological change 
(including: the impact of new media on hierarchies and modalities of 
media power; changing political economies of data, digital 
infrastructure and mass media)
- The politics of the sensory: modes and modalities of communication 
(including; sensory technologies and methodologies; the internet and 
visual communication; transgressive and oppositional practice in arts; 
non-linguistic communication in mass media)

*How to submit?*

Please submit your abstract by filling in the form at 
meccsapgn2017.com/submissions by 21 March, 2017. If for any reason you 
are unable to fill in the online form, please contact us at 
(info /at/ meccsapgn2017.com). We will accept submissions in the following formats:

- Individual papers: Please submit a 300 words abstract describing your 
suggested paper. Make sure that your abstract clearly engages with the 
conference theme.
- Panels: Please outline your suggested panel in 900 words. Panels 
should include 3 projects. Please describe how the panel engages with 
the conference theme.
- Audio-visual works: Please submit a 300 words abstract describing your 
work and how it engages with the theme of the conference. In addition, 
please provide technical details of your project (length etc.) as well 
as full details of the kind of equipment that would be necessary to 
display your work.
- Posters: Please submit a 300 words abstract describing your project. 
In addition, please include the size of your poster and any additional 
requirements for displaying it, if there are any.
- Other: Please submit a 500 words abstract describing your project. 
Please include a description of the format you’re suggesting and why and 
how it engages with the conference theme. In addition, please include 
any technical details that are required for the execution of your 
specific format (time frame, space, special equipment etc.)

If you have any question regarding the submission guidelines, please 
feel free to contact us: (info /at/ meccsapgn2017.com)

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