[Commlist] Call for submissions, due Feb 7, FINAL REMINDER: ICA Pre-conference #CommunicationSoWhite

International Communication Association 2019 Pre-conference

#CommunicationSoWhite: Discipline, Scholarship, and the Media

Friday, May 24, 2019

Georgetown University

Washington D.C., USA


SPECIAL SESSIONS


~ Keynote speaker ~

Roopali Mukherjee

Associate Professor of Media Studies

Queen's College, CUNY


~ Mentoring workshop ~

Students and early career scholars are invited to participate with 
faculty mentors to discuss navigating race and difference in the academy.



DESCRIPTION


As part of an ongoing movement to decenter white masculinity as the 
normative core of scholarly inquiry, the recent article, 
“#CommunicationSoWhite” by Chakravartty et al. (2018) in the Journal of 
Communicationexamined racial disparities within citational practices to 
make a broader intervention on ways current Communication scholarship 
reproduces institutional racism and sexism.


The underrepresentation of scholars of color within the field in regards 
to citations, editorial positions, and publications and ongoing 
exclusion of nonwhite, feminist, queer, post-colonial, and Indigenous 
voices is a persistent and systemic problem in the production of 
disciplinary knowledge. ICA President Paula Gardner echoed similar 
sentiments in her 2018 presidential address, calling for steps for 
inclusion and diversity within the International Communication 
Association as well as the larger field.


This pre-conference aims to highlight, consider, and intervene in these 
issues. We seek submissions that address areas such as:

-The marginalization of communication scholarship in which race, 
ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other axes of exclusion are central;

-Communication scholarship in the context of the global rise of white 
supremacy and right-wing ethno-nationalism movements;

-Communication scholarship from postcolonial and decolonial perspectives;

-Who tends to be hired and who serves as leaders/gatekeepers in the field;

-The politics of citation and publication;

-How #CommunicationSoWhite can function as an intervention within 
communication studies organizations, departments, and scholarship.


We anticipate many submissions will center on the U.S. and other Western 
contexts; we also hope the pre-conference will provide a discussion that 
spans both global North and South, and we encourage participation by 
submitters from outside North America and the U.K.


Please submit either an EXTENDED ABSTRACT or a PANEL PROPOSAL.


~ Extended abstracts ~ should be 1,500-3,000 words, including notes and 
references.We encourage different types of submissions including 
position papers, case studies, and more conventional research papers 
that tackle any issue relating to the preconference themes.


~ Panel proposals ~ should include a minimum of four participants.We 
will accept panels following a traditional format where presenters each 
speak for 10-15 minutes before a Q-and-A period.We also encourage panel 
proposals that do not follow such a format; e.g. consider high-density 
panels, which have six or more participants who each speak for 6 minutes 
or less, or panels where panelists circulate their papers to each other 
ahead of time to generate a more engaged discussion during the 
presentation session.Provide a 400-word rationale describing the panel 
overall, a 200-word abstract for each participant’s contribution, and a 
list of participants’ names, affiliations, and contact information.


~ Travel grants ~ : Depending on funding availability, we may have the 
ability to offer one or two modest travel grants (maximum $400).If you 
are a graduate student and/or a scholar resident in a non-Tier A country 
(see https://www.icahdq.org/page/tiers for a list), please note this 
status in your submission and indicate that you would like to be 
considered for a travel grant.


Exclusions: Submissions should not consist primarily of previously 
published or in-press scholarship.


Deadline: Please submit by ** Thursday, February 7, 2019, 16:00 UTC **, 
by emailing BOTH Eve Ng at (nge /at/ ohio.edu) and Khadijah Costley White at 
(klw147 /at/ comminfo.rutgers.edu)


If you have questions, please contact both of the following 
pre-conference organizers:

Eve Ng: (nge /at/ ohio.edu)

Khadijah Costley White: (klw147 /at/ comminfo.rutgers.edu)


DATE AND LOCATION

The pre-conference will take place on Friday, May 24, 2019, at 
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.Room information will be announced 
when it is finalized. The pre-conference will end in time for 
participants to attend the ICA main conference opening plenary in the 
evening at the Washington Hilton.


REGISTRATION

Early registration fee, by March 31: $US40

Regular registration fee, April 1-May 3 (May 3 is the last day for 
registering online, and onsite registration will not be possible): US$60

Lunch will be included for all registered participants.

Follow the registration link at 
https://www.icahdq.org/event/CommunicationSoWhite_Preconf2019


~ Organizers ~

Eve Ng, Ohio University, USA

Khadijah Costley White, Rutgers University, USA

Alfred L. Martin, Jr., University of Iowa, USA

Anamik Saha, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

~ Organizing Groups~

Ethnicity and Race in Communication division

LGBTQ Studies interest group

~ Co-Sponsors ~

Activism, Communication and Social Justice interest group

Feminist Scholarship division

Global Communication and Social Change division

Mass Communication division

Popular Communication division


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