[ecrea] CFP: Union for Democratic Communication Conference: Media, Resistance and Justice

*CFP: Union for Democratic Communication Conference*

*Media, Resistance, and Justice: The Fight for Humanity*

*May 10-13, 2018
Loyola University Chicago*
*Chicago. Illinois*

In an era of increasing authoritarianism, militarization, and continuing 
media consolidation, the need for robust democratic communication and 
more powerful social movements has become urgent. The new US 
administration has rushed to further inequality, racism, sexism, and the 
destruction of the environment, including leaving the Paris Accords, 
while targeting undocumented workers, immigrants, refugees, women, and 
people of color, in particular—all of which has emboldened a rabid, 
white supremacist rising. Globally the US and its myriad transnational 
allies actively attack any and all democratic movements from Latin 
America and Africa to the Mideast and Asia, while financing and 
fomenting wars and interventions that displace millions and destroy the 
lives of thousands. Transnational media everywhere obscure the 
instigators and realities of rising inequality, providing spectacle and 
entertainment for promoting military actions, austerity, and the gutting 
of civil liberty and human rights.

In the midst of these attacks, powerful resistance and inspiring social 
movements continue to emerge: from Black Lives Matter and the Fight for 
$15, to the North Dakota Water Protectors; from mass social movements 
across Latin America to battles by organized workers in China, Greece, 
and South Africa; from powerful women’s movements in India and the 
women’s march in the US to the expanding international environmental 
movement.

This conference seeks to traverse the intersections of Media, 
Resistance, and Justice through presentations and conversations that 
offer insights and suggestions for advancing and securing a more 
democratic, just society.

The Union for Democratic Communication 2018 conference invites 
contributions on Media, Resistance, and Justice that address our 
contemporary crises and the rise of state and non-state right wing 
attacks. In particular, we invite contributions that highlight the means 
and methods for active resistance, democratic communication, and the 
promotion of social justice. New and established scholars, graduate 
students, activists, and media creators are encouraged to submit proposals.

Topics for presentations may also address:

  * Race, class, gender and/or indigeneity
  * Debt, precarity and austerity
  * Refugees and migrants
  * Intersectionality
  * slavery, colonialism/post-colonialism and/or the primitive
    accumulation of capital
  * progressive movements, social movements, mass mobilizations and 
protests
  * alt-global visions
  * left-state alternatives
  * media reform and communication policy
  * neo-fascism
  * media literacy and critical media theory
  * the neoliberal assault on higher education, radical scholars and
    academic freedom
  * critical communication pedagogy
  * fake news and propaganda
  * intersections of politics, morality, and communication in the
    current political climate
  * eco media studies

*Individual Submissions:*

Abstracts for papers should be 300-500 words and include name and 
affiliation of submitter.*

Enhancing Chance of Acceptance for Individual Submission:

  * Don’t reveal your identity in the title or the abstract.
  * Make sure your abstract relates to either the conference theme or
    the organization’s mission (and ideally, to both).
  * Describe clearly and concisely (300-500 words) what your submission
    does.
  * Make sure it is well-edited.

*Panels, Workshops, Working Groups, and Roundtable Submissions: *

Abstracts for panel proposals, workshops, and roundtables should be 
300-500 words and include title, abstract, and participants invited.*

Enhancing the Chance of Acceptance for a Panel/Workshop:

  * Have one member of the panel or workshop submit an overarching panel
    title and abstract.
  * Each member should submit an individual abstract for their
    contribution and, if appropriate, a title for their contribution.
      Also, include just the panel title so they can be reviewed together.
  * Don’t reveal your identity or the identity of anyone on the panel in
    any of the submissions
  * Make sure all abstracts relate to either the conference theme or the
    organization’s mission (and ideally, to both)
  * In all abstracts, describe clearly and concisely (300-500 words)
    what your submission does.
  * Make sure it is well-edited.

*Graduate students should submit full papers and abstracts to be 
considered for the Brian Murphy Student Paper Award.* *

*All submissions are given a double-blind review.


*Please send abstracts and proposals to: *

https://easychair.org/cfp/UDC_2018

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*Deadline for Submissions*: 15 October 2017

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*Notice of Acceptance: *

Applicants will be notified of their acceptance no later than 15 January 
2018.


*Conference website:* http://www.democraticcommunications.org/


For any questions, please contact: (udc.steering /at/ gmail.com)



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