[ecrea] CFP Pre-conference on Media and Religion - ICA

CALL FOR PAPERS


A Pre-conference on Media and Religion International Communication 
Association Annual Meeting Washington, DC, USA 24 May, 2018


Global Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion

The “new era” of politics in the North Atlantic West that has followed 
the Brexit vote in Britain, the Trump election in the U.S., and 
political upheavals elsewhere in Europe challenges settled ideas about 
media, politics, and culture. Emergent populist movements in the West 
but also in Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa increasingly 
use symbols and tropes drawing on remembered, repressed, contested, 
implicit and explicit valences of “the religious.” The persistent power 
of religion to mobilize new populism confounds expectations that 
religion would fade in significance as we moved further into the new 
century. Among the most vexing—and least understood—questions are those 
surrounding the role of religion in these developments and how media and 
systems of mediation—particularly digital mediation—make religion’s new 
participation possible. Religion has persisted, grown in influence, and 
moved well outside our received categories of analysis; it is expressed 
in a variety of registers and contexts that defy traditional framings. 
This is nowhere more critical than in the ways religious symbols, 
interests and claims are deployed in the evolving new populist politics. 
Scholars of media have a special interest and expertise in addressing 
phenomena such as this, yet the field often struggles to incorporate 
serious scholarship of religion into its work. This pre-conference is 
intended to begin a conversation about this lacuna even as it addresses 
its overall theme.

This pre-conference will feature a morning expert panel including John 
Jackson of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, 
Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, former U.S. 
Congressman Tom Perriello (tentative) and an expert on media, religion, 
and populism outside the North Atlantic West (TBA). The afternoon will 
be devoted to two panels made up of submitted proposals and papers and a 
final, wrap-up round table discussion.

Relevant papers and proposals for the afternoon that address the rise of 
new politics and the role of religion and of media in it will be 
welcomed. Proposals may also address broader questions of the challenges 
religion poses to media scholarship.

Preconference organizers and contacts:

Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado (hoover /at/ colorado.edu); Johanna 
Sumiala, University of Helsinki (johanna.sumiala /at/ helsinki.fi); Heidi 
Campbell, Texas A&M University (heidic /at/ tamu.edu); Sarah McFarland Taylor, 
Northwestern University (smcftaylor /at/ gmail.com); Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, 
University of Iowa (jenna-supp-montgomerie /at/ uiowa.edu); Corrina Laughlin, 
Loyola Marymount University (Corrina.Laughlin /at/ LMU.edu);

Endorsing Divisions: Philosophy, Theory, and Critique; Popular 
Communication; Global Communication

Papers or abstracts of 250 words maximum should be submitted to the 
organizers at (cmrc /at/ colorado.edu) by December 15, 2018. Acceptances will 
be emailed at the time of the overall ICA acceptances in January.


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