[ecrea] CARGC CFP Popular Culture and Coloniality: Decolonizing Global Media and Communication

We are currently accepting abstracts for the Biennial CARGC (Center for 
Advanced Research in Global Communication) Fellows Led Conference in 
Philadelphia, PA at the Annenberg School for Communication. We hope to 
see you there!

CFP is below and also linked: https://cargcsouthbysoutheast.com/ 
Abstract deadline is October 1, 2018

Over the past three decades, intellectual energy in global media studies 
has worked to decolonize the field. Building on these legacies and 
others across the humanities and social sciences, the inaugural 
CARGC-fellows biennial conference seeks to examine the relationship 
between popular culture and coloniality. Using popular culture as avenue 
through which to examine global geo-politics and communication, the 
conference invites submissions that critically examine affect, power, 
representation, and politics in shifting technological landscapes. In 
doing so, this one-day conference asks: how can critical, theoretical, 
and empirical studies of popular culture push global media studies to 
further examine the production of knowledge?

We invite papers that work critically to further decolonize media 
studies and unmoor scholarship from sedimentary understandings of place, 
space, time, and power beyond determinist discourses like the 
essentialization of media and technology. The CARGC symposium solicits 
scholarship from early career scholars that:

* Uses popular culture artifacts such as music, melodrama, digital and 
social media, film, performance, folk culture, television, comics, 
cartoons, street art, print media, memes, comedy, and more to 
interrogate ideas of place, beyond the binaries of local/global, 
traditional/modern, west/rest, and the boundaries and possibilities of 
comparative research; global is not simply scholarship outside the 
hegemonic West but rather an orientation.

* Observes the experiences of audiences alongside the political economy 
of cultural production and consumption in order to analyze power beyond 
the dichotomy of oppression/resistance and pursue instead the generative 
spaces between, outside, next to, or beyond dualisms.

* Interrogates media and technological platforms as sites of popular 
cultural production, while focusing on claim-making and meaning-making 
processes of active audiences and digital consumers;

* Imagines political bodies, subjectivities, and affect by seeking out 
and analyzing  representations of underrepresented voices, cultures, 
bodies, and abilities;

* Explores overlapping histories of the popular and of popular culture 
in order to brush history against the grain;

* Otherwise uses the production and consumption of popular culture in 
order to rethink the production of knowledge, challenging eurocentrism, 
elitism, and other frameworks of power, offering other ways of knowing.

Interested participants should send abstracts of 250 
(wordscargcfellowsconference /at/ gmail.com <http://gmail.com>) 
<mailto:(cargcfellowsconference /at/ gmail.com <http://gmail.com>)>by 
October 1, 2018.


About CARGC:

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the 
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania 
produces and promotes scholarly research on global communication and 
public life. As an institute for advanced study dedicated to global 
media studies, we revisit enduring questions and engage pressing matters 
in geopolitics and communication. Our vision of “inclusive 
globalization” recognizes plurality and inequality in global media, 
politics, and culture. Our translocal approach fuses multidisciplinary 
regional knowledge with theory and methodology in the humanities and 
social sciences. This synthesis of deep expertise and interdisciplinary 
inquiry stimulates critical conversations about entrenched and emerging 
communicative structures, practices, flows, and struggles. We explore 
new ways of understanding and explaining the world, including public 
scholarship, algorithmic culture, the arts, artificial intelligence, 
multi-modal scholarship, and digital archives. With a core commitment to 
the development of early career scholars worldwide, CARGC hosts 
postdoctoral, doctoral, undergraduate, and faculty fellows who 
collaborate in research groups, author CARGC Press publications, and 
organize talks, lectures, symposia, conferences, and summer institutes.
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