[Commlist] CFP Media Imaginaries, International Symposium

*CFP Media Imaginaries
**International Symposium, Lund University, Sweden – 16 March 2023 *

*Organisers Annette Hill, Hario Priambodho, Cheryl Fung and Martin 
Lundqvist - MKV Lund University *

Media imaginaries are shape shifters. We can see imaginaries as make 
believe, as thinking outside the box, and as social practices. These 
multiform imaginaries coexist with the dialectics of the real and the 
imaginary, e.g. technological visions, or post truth politics.

The term media imaginaries refers to the cultural work of texts and 
artefacts, audience engagement and experiences, and the infrastructural 
work of commercial and civic organisations. How we create, talk about, 
dislike and dispute the stories and myths, facts and fictions regarding 
media related issues such as the environment and mobility, platforms and 
technologies, or inequalities and social justice, is of pressing concern 
for citizens, media researchers and industry professionals. We invite 
international scholars to consider their research contributions towards 
a critical media imaginaries playbook.

Key questions for this international symposium on the theme of ‘Media 
Imaginaries’ include:

·How do we imagine media today, yesterday or tomorrow?
·How do various forms of media imagine us as citizens, users, fans or 
producers?
·How do institutional organisations and professionals imagine societal 
contexts

for a range of media-related issues, e.g. memories, technologies, 
communication and transportation, crises and conflict, or the environment?

Through an exploration and xamination of media imaginaries, this 
international symposium will provide a scientific space for dialogue on 
the following topics:

·Imaginary media, e.g. texts, aesthetics and performances in television, 
film, journalism, platforms, games, podcasts, theatre and sports;

·Media imaginaries, e.g. social and technical actors, domestication and 
communication;

·Media and the mnemonic imagination, e.g. cultural memories, performance 
of memories and archives

·Media and social imaginaries, e.g. political and social movements, 
social inequalities;

·Media and cultural imaginaries, e.g. cultural meanings and resources, 
arts and futures;

·Queer and activist imaginaries, e.g. gender and intersectionality, 
critical disabilities, rewilding;

·Mobilities and imaginaries, e.g. transportation, mobilities and 
immobilities;

·Media imaginaries and the global south, e.g. diverse linguistic 
communities,

non-Western centric approaches

·Media and environmental imaginaries, e.g. climate crisis, energy justice,

critical infrastructures.

International invited speakers include Professor Deborah Chambers 
(Newcastle University, UK), Professor Simon Dawes (Université de 
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France), Professor Joke Hermes 
(InHolland University, Netherlands), Professor Annette Hill (Lund 
University, Sweden), Dr Ignas Kalpokas (Vytautas Magnus University, 
Lithuania), Dr Robert Willim (Lund University, Sweden), Dr Emiliano 
Rossi (Bologna University, Italy).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by *December 12th 2022 
*to (hario.priambodho /at/ kom.lu.se). For further information please consult 
our website 
https://www.kom.lu.se/en/research/conferences-and-events/media-imaginaries-2023. 
There is a registration fee of 950 SEK (95 Euros) that covers food and 
drink for the day and an evening buffet.


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