[Commlist] CfP SCMS 2023: Queer and Trans Circuits of Transnational Media

*Queer and Trans Circuits of Transnational Media*

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This roundtable facilitates a critical conversation about the 
intersections of queer theory, trans theory, and transnational media 
studies. From work on transnational queer activist media in the Global 
South (Bao) to queer approaches to late capitalist transnational media 
logistics (McBean), scholars have considered how queer/trans theory and 
transnational media studies complicate, disrupt, and shape one another. 
As global supply chains, multinational corporations, and digital and 
internet technologies facilitate the development and circulation of 
transnational media texts, queer theory provides an avenue to critique 
and critically analyze media texts, policies, and economic practices 
(Yue). At the same time, transnational media studies work can challenge 
assumptions and arguments within queer and trans theory that tacitly 
center on Whiteness and US geopolitical contexts (Subero; Wahab). This 
roundtable seeks to unravel complexities and gain new insights into the 
dynamic relationships between queer theory, trans theory, and 
transnational media studies.


Potential topics for the roundtable may include, but are not limited to:


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    Queer/Trans fandoms, fan labor, and/or fan texts of transnational media

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    Transnational media and representations of queerness and transness

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    Translation, localization, and queer/transness

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    (Inter)national government media policies

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    Queer and trans readings of transnational media texts

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    Discourses of queer and trans identities across transnational media
    circuits

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    Queer and trans creators/developers of transnational media

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    Queer and trans activist media

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    Insections of queerness, transness, and race in transnational media

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    Social media communities, sites, and practices

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    Queer and trans theoretical approaches to global supply chains and
    multinational media corporations

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    Potential challenges of applying queer theory to transnational media
    studies, and vice versa


If you are interested in participating, please prepare the following:


 1.

    A presentation title

 2.

    A brief description of your topic (about 75-100 words)

 3.

    A brief introduction of yourself, including your name, organization,
    and academic interests


We also welcome any questions you may have about the planned roundtable!


Please send all questions and submissions to both David Kocik 
((dpkocik /at/ uwm.edu)) and Aiden Kosciesza ((kosci1a /at/ cmich.edu)) byMonday, 
August 14.



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