[Commlist] Cfp: Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies

Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies

Call for Papers

This pre-conference builds on the vibrant discussions that took place as 
part of the ICA 2023 pre-conference “Media and Communication Studies in 
a Global Context: A Critical History.” It recognizes that if we are to 
take seriously recent calls to globalize and decolonize the fields of 
media, information, and communication studies, we need to move beyond 
debating what these calls might mean and begin to articulate concrete 
steps towards these important goals.

This year’s pre-conference focuses on “Repressed Histories” in the 
fields of media, information, and communication studies. The theme for 
ICA 2024 is ‘Communication and global human rights.’ Debates about human 
rights and their connections to Western-centric modernity, universality, 
and global institutions echo the calls to globalize and decolonize 
knowledge that are the starting points for this pre-conference. They 
also contain an invitation to address issues of oppression and 
marginalization from varied perspectives (race, gender, sexuality, 
indigeneity, oceanic flows, migration, etc.), whilst inviting us to take 
concrete steps to pluralize our understanding of media, information, and 
communications systems, practices, and their plural, and often 
repressed, histories.

We invite proposals that address our focus on “repressed histories” in 
and of the field by taking seriously and engaging directly with 
research, theories, sites, and thinkers whose contributions have been 
sidestepped, marginalized, occluded, or have simply not received the 
attention they deserve because of their geographical location, the 
historical traditions their belong to, as well as the combined effects 
of publishing circuits, border control, linguistic barriers, and 
knowledge traditions that continue to shape our field.

As such, we are especially interested in contributions that:

- engage seriously with the insights of intellectuals, scholars, and 
activists from the Global South who have theorized communicative 
phenomena in their broader socio-cultural and politico-economic 
contexts, including—but not limited to—those focused on non-Western 
knowledges, indigeneity, race, South-to-South solidarities.
- involve institutions that house traditions, methodological approaches, 
and historiographies in media, information, and communication research 
that have been neglected by the field.
- draw on concepts or ideas that have not received wide circulation 
because of their location, language of expression, and geographical or 
cultural origin.

Information about submissions:

Authors should submit an extended abstract of 400-500 words (excluding 
references) to (ias /at/ qatar.northwestern.edu) 
<mailto:(ias /at/ qatar.northwestern.edu)>.

In a single PDF, please include: your name, institutional affiliation, 
email address, title of your proposed presentation, and abstract.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to 14 february 2024

Attendance to the pre-conference has a general USD 50.00 fee. Please 
note that we will be able to provide some financial support.

Organizers:

Usha Raman, U of Hyderabad
Simone Natale, U of Turin
Emily Keightley, Loughborough U
Clovis Bergère, Northwestern U-Qatar
Marwan Kraidy, Northwestern U-Qatar
Aswin Punathambekar, U of Pennsylvania
Jing Wang, U of Wisconsin-Madison


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