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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

The 3^rd International Geomedia Conference: “Revisiting the Home”

Karlstad, Sweden, 7-10 May 2019

Welcome to the 3^rd International Geomedia Conference! The term 
/geomedia/captures the fundamental role of media in organizing and 
giving meaning to processes and activities in space. Geomedia also 
alludes to the geographical attributes of media, for example flows of 
digital signals between particular places and the infrastructures 
carrying those flows. The rapid expansion of mobile media, 
location-based services, GIS and increasingly complex patterns of 
surveillance/interveillance has amplified the need for critical studies 
and theorizations of geomedia. The 3^rd Geomedia Conference welcomes 
contributions (full sessions/panels as well as individual papers) that 
analyze and problematize the relations between the any and all 
communication media and various forms of spatial creativity, performance 
and production across material, cultural, social and political 
dimensions. Geomedia 2019 provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena 
for research carried out at the crossroads of geography, media and film 
studies. It also builds bridges to such fields as urban studies, rural 
studies, regional planning, cultural studies and tourism studies.

The special theme of Geomedia 2019 is “Revisiting the Home”. It responds 
to the prevailing need to problematize the meaning of home in an “era of 
globalized homelessness”, in times of extended mobility (migration, 
tourism, multiple homes, etc.) and digital information flows (notably 
social media). While such ongoing transitions point to a condition where 
home-making becomes an increasingly liquid and de-territorialized 
undertaking, there is also a growing preoccupation with questions of 
what counts as home and who has the right to claim something as (one’s) 
home. Home is a construct that actualizes the multilayered tensions 
between belonging, inclusion and security, on the one hand, and 
alienation, exclusion and surveillance, on the other. The theme of 
Geomedia 2019 centers on how media are culturally and materially 
integrated in and reshaping the home-place (e.g., the “smart home” and 
the “home-office”) and connecting it to other places and spaces. It also 
concerns the phenomenological and discursive constructions of home, 
ranging from the intimate social interaction of domestic spaces to the 
popular (and sometimes politicized) media nostalgia of imagined 
communities (nation states, homelands, etc.). Ultimately, “Revisiting 
the Home” addresses the home as a theoretical concept and its 
implications for geomedia studies. The theme will be addressed through 
invited keynote talks, a plenary panel, film screenings and artistic 
installations. Participants are also encouraged to submit proposals for 
paper sessions addressing the conference theme.

Keynote speakers:

Melissa Gregg – Intel Corporation, USA

Tristan Thielmann – Universität Siegen, Germany

Katie Walsh – University of Sussex, Great Britain

Plenary panel, “Dreaming of Home: Film and Imaginary Territories of the 
Real”:

Daniela Berghahn – Royal Holloway University of London

Christine Molloy – Film director and producer, Desperate Optimists

Les Roberts – University of Liverpool

John Lynch (chair) – Karlstad University

Film screenings and directors:

/Sami Blood – /Amanda Kernell (SWE)

/Further Beyond – /Christine Molloy (IRL)//

Abstract submissions:

Geomedia 2019 welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as 
thematic panels in English through the conference 
website://www.geomedia.se// <http://www.geomedia.se>//

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/Individual paper proposals:/The author submits an abstract of 200-250 
words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 
papers according to thematic area.

/Thematic panel proposals:/The chair of the panel submits a proposal 
consisting of 4-5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with 
a general panel presentation of 200-250 words.

Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to:

  * Art and event spaces
  * Cinematic geographies
  * Cosmopolitanism
  * Everyday communication geographies
  * Epistemologies and methodologies of geomedia
  * Geographies of media and culture industries
  * Geographies of news
  * Historical perspectives of geomedia
  * Home and belonging
  * Lifestyle and tourism mobilities
  * Locative and spatial media
  * Material geographies of media
  * Media ecologies
  * Mediatization and space
  * Migration and media
  * Mobility and governance
  * Policy mobilities
  * Power geometries and mobility capital
  * Surveillance and spatial control
  * Urban and rural media spaces

Conference timeline:

September 24^th 2018: Submission system opens
December 10^th 2018: Deadline for thematic panel and individual paper 
proposals
January 25^th 2019: Notes of acceptance and registration opens
February 28^th 2019: Early Bird pricing ends
March 15^th 2019: Last day of registration

Conference website:

Information about registration, conference programme, venue, social 
events and practical arrangements will be posted continuously on the 
conference website: www.geomedia.se <http://www.geomedia.se>

Contact: You can reach us at (info /at/ geomedia.se) <mailto:(info /at/ geomedia.se)>

Organizers and venue:

Geomedia 2019 is hosted by theGeomedia Research Group at the Department 
of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden.

Conference director: Lena Grip

Assistant conference director: Stina Bergman

Director of the Geomedia Research Group and chair of scientific 
committee: André Jansson



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/André Jansson /
Professor of Media and Communication Studies
Director of the Geomedia Research Group
www.kau.se/en/geomedia <http://www.kau.se/en/geomedia>
Department of Geography, Media and Communication (GMK)
Karlstad University
SE 651 88 Karlstad
SWEDEN

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