[Commlist] cfp: Global Communication and Post-Pandemics Politics

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication 
<https://cargc.asc.upenn.edu/> at the Annenberg School for Communication 
at the University of Pennsylvaniais inviting submissions to the 2021 
early-career conference, *“**No Going Back: Global Communication and 
Post-Pandemic Politics,”***to be held on *April 8 and 9, 2021, virtually. *

We invite early-career scholars, from grad students to early-career 
professors, as well as artists, activists, journalists, and others, to 
submit proposals for consideration. Contributions can take the form of 
abstracts of *academic papers or other creative and multimodal works 
*(audio submissions, short film or documentaries, or creative writing).


Here is the link to the CFP 
<https://cargc.asc.upenn.edu/call-for-proposals-cargc-fellows-conference-on-global-communication-and-post-pandemic-politics/> 
and here the link to the submission form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScx-latysBwTIm2JtabXWGUK95q7XGfB0-S-RBYL264gSpnsg/viewform?usp=send_form>.


The deadline to submit proposals is *September 30, 2020.*

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics
/Biennial Early Career Conference/
April 8 and 9, 2021 (virtual conference)
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), Annenberg 
School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

On suddenly sparse streets, artists confront the grim reality of the 
moment. With a nod to the anti-globalization movement or the music notes 
seemingly playing off the guest that has overstayed its welcome, both 
messages diagnose the ailment and gesture toward a hope for and belief 
in change. In a moment shaped by closures – of borders, stores, schools, 
offices, jobs, and, for many, a dream of “going back to normal” – what 
openings are made possible?

The second biennial early career conference by the Center for Advanced 
Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School at the 
University of Pennsylvania asks: What are post-pandemic politics? We 
understand post-pandemic, not as a myopic focus on COVID-19, but rather 
as an optic illuminating both /persistent/ and /emergent /conditions of 
inequity and precarity. We also use post-pandemic as an opportunity to 
imagine new forms of politics, community, solidarity, and action.

We invite early career scholars, activists, artists, and journalists to 
reflect on the crucial role of communication in this moment of rupture 
and offer the following questions as a provocation for participants:

What can the critical study of global communication – in all its 
expansiveness and imaginative force – offer us in a moment when 
uncertainty, insecurity, and risk have saturated hegemonic imaginations 
of the global?

How might these times, which have both exacerbated and highlighted 
marginalization and oppression across global Norths and Souths and along 
lines of race, class, gender, and other axes of identity, move us 
towards justice and anti-oppression?

What other ways of coming together, collective action, and organizing 
have been brought to the forefront of dominant imaginations, and what 
ways of being and living remain possible outside their ambit?

We invite a range of interventions, be they artistic, activist, 
academic, or some combination thereof, on post-pandemic politics in the 
context of global communication. *Possible topics may include:*

  * Affect (paranoia, exhaustion, anxiety, grief, joy, shame, pressure,
    hope, etc.)
  * Communication and Rights (privacy, freedom of speech, harassment, etc.)
  * Connectivity (broadband, virtualization of life, audience practices,
    etc.)
  * Data science (Big Data, small data, profiling, tracing-and-tracking,
    etc.)
  * Discipline and Surveillance: (state, corporate, and community
    surveillance, violence through surveillance, internet of things,
    artificial intelligence, etc.).
  * Globalization and Communication (the global and the local,
    North-to-South, South-to-South, South-to-North processes,
    transnationalism, nation, borders, and citizenship, etc.)
  * Humor (memes, online humor, entertainment, political satire, etc.)
  * Inequalities (digital inequalities, communication inequalities,
    structural inequalities, like those related to gender, race or
    ethnicity, class, sexuality, and others.)
  * Infrastructures and Materialities (communication and media
    infrastructure, power concentration, etc.)
  * Journalism (news productions, news reception, misinformation,
    polarization, etc.)
  * Labor (precarious labor, gig economy, unionization, etc.).
  * Media representations ((in)visibilities, audience reception, etc.).
  * Social Movements and Activism (digital activism, feminist activism,
    anti-racist movements, etc.)
  * Visual and sound communication (videos, photographs, visual and
    sound interventions, etc.)

Submissions: Contributions can take the form of academic papers or other 
creative and multimodal works (audio submissions, short film or 
documentaries, or creative writing). Please, follow the specific 
guidelines 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Irp14Ia9hRRc299kiTMzc6SFrsqx5tdgBq1S1aK8fMs/edit?usp=sharing> for 
each type of submission. Submit your work using this form 
<https://forms.gle/HB4oYvnEtE8gmKyE9>.

Review Process: Submissions will be reviewed based on clarity, 
significance, relevance, creativity, and how well they respond to the 
conference theme. Only submissions that meet the submission guidelines 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Irp14Ia9hRRc299kiTMzc6SFrsqx5tdgBq1S1aK8fMs/edit?usp=sharing> will 
be considered. For any questions about the submission or review process, 
please reach out to (cargcfellows /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(cargcfellows /at/ gmail.com)>.

Deadline: The *deadline for submissions is September 30, 2020.

*

/This conference is the second biennial early career conference at the 
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) 
<https://cargc.asc.upenn.edu/> at the Annenberg School for Communication 
at the University of Pennsylvania. Its inaugural conference was held on 
March 27 and 28, 2019 
<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-fellows-conference>, and 
featured a keynote conversation at Slought, 
<https://slought.org/resources/practicing_decolonization> a 
not-for-profit organization based at the University of Pennsylvania, 
entitled “Practicing Decolonization,” as well as presentations by 13 
early-career scholars./


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