[Commlist] CFP Media Imaginaries

International Symposium, Lund University, Sweden – 16 March 2023
Reminder

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

We invite international scholars to consider their research 
contributions towards a critical media imaginaries playbook. 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.

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 examination 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 
(LundUniversity, 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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