[Commlist] CFP | No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics

Please note that the CARGC Fellows Early Career Conference, “No Going 
Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics,”will now take 
place virtually on April 8 and 9, 2021. We have also extended the 
deadline for submissions to October 15, 2020.

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the 
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania 
invites early career scholars, as well as artists, activists, 
journalists, and others, to submit abstracts for consideration.

Please check the CFP for updates and guidelines for 
submission: https://bit.ly/2Vh2Tjo
We would appreciate it if you would forward this email to colleagues and 
students in your department and others to whom this may be of interest. 
Questions may be directed to: (cargcfellows /at/ gmail.com).

+++

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

UPDATE: Given the circumstances, the conference will take place 
virtually. The first day, April 8, will be focused on participants and 
the second day, April 9, will be open to the general public.

No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics
Biennial Early Career Conference

The conference will be held virtually on April 8 and 9, 2021.

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.)

Date and Place: The conference will be held virtually on April 8 and 9, 
2021.

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 for each type of submission. Submit your work using this form.

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 
will be considered. For any questions about the submission or review 
process, please reach out to (cargcfellows /at/ gmail.com).

Deadline: The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2020.

This conference is the second biennial early career conference at the 
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the 
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. 
Its inaugural conference was held on March 27 and 28, 2019 and featured 
a keynote conversation at Slought, a not-for-profit organization based 
at the University of Pennsylvania, entitled “Practicing Decolonization,” 
as well as presentations by 13 early career scholars.
---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------