[ecrea] "Condition of Contradiction" Conference / CFP

The "Condition of Contradiction" conference will be the fifth 
international and cross-disciplinary conference convened by the 
Department of Communication at Saint Louis University—Madrid Campus, 
with a strong accent on critical communication and media studies.


Venue & Dates: Saint Louis University—Madrid, Spain, 13-14 April 2018

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*Call for Papers *(deadline for submissions extended to *Thursday 25 
January 2018):*The advent of neoliberalism after the 1970s in “core” 
western economies has unleashed a relatively deregulated and more 
palpably globalized economy. The results have been convulsive in the 
socio-economic concomitants and contradictions that have followed. They 
include: intensified, bare-knuckled class striation alongside tendencies 
toward intensified tolerance and mixing; finance that moves more readily 
across borders than (many) flesh-and-blood people; cosmopolitanism 
alongside re-invigorated identity essentialism; and places and 
identities stuck between global forces and renewed assertions of 
localism. And all of it subject to 24-hour globalized, new media 
display. In this confusing milieu, where billionaires preach faux 
populism, all that is solid melts into air and all that is holy is 
profaned. Moreover, the knowledge industries (universities, news media) 
have been gob smacked by internal and external pressures that enable 
bizarre versions of “postmodern” and anti-reality doctrines to gain 
currency.

While many features of the landscape look bleak, the prevalence of seams 
in the system and fissures within prevailing ideology suggest that 
today’s contradiction may be tomorrow’s consensus. The conference will 
attempt to sort out and tentatively make sense of the current condition 
of deeply inscribed contradiction through interdisciplinary dialogue. 
Scholars of communication and mass media, political science, literature, 
sociology, philosophy, ethnography, global studies—anyone with 
interdisciplinary interests and bona fides—are invited to join in.

Topics of interest: Capitalism & Culture; Media Representations of 
Contradiction: Film, TV, Music; Protest Politics; Contradictions in New 
Media: Theory and Practice; Class Politics; Activism & Quests for Social 
Justice; College Strife: Higher Education in the 21^st century; 
Journalism: Its Defenders and Impersonators

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*Keynote Speaker:*Dr. Justin Lewis, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

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*Application Process to Present:*Please send an application in the form 
of a Word document to the conference Scientific Committee at the 
conference email address (below). The document should include (1a) your 
name, (1b) affiliation, and (1c) title; and (2a) the title of your 
paper, (2b) a 150-250 word abstract, and (2c) 3-5 keywords.

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*Conference Email Address: *madrid.conference.2018(at)gmail.com

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*Abstract Due Date:*Thursday 25 January 2018 at 14:00 / 2 PM (Madrid, 
Spain local time)

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*Conference Web Page:*conditionofcontradictionmadrid(dot)wordpress(dot)com/

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*The Conference-Hosting Campus’ Web Page: *www(dot)slu(dot)edu/madrid 
<http://www.slu.edu/madrid>


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