[Commlist] CFPs - Disability at ICA’25 Denver

We are a group of disability studies scholars who have been active at 
the International Communication Association (ICA). We are hoping to 
organize various panels around disability, communication, and media for 
the ICA 2025 conference, which will be held at Denver 12-16 June 2025. 
The main theme of the 2025 conference is /Disrupting and Consolidating 
Communication Research/. For more information on the conference and the 
theme, see, https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica25-theme 
<https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica25-theme>

More broadly, we hope to galvanize interest in disability, 
communication, and media at ICA. We are planning to submit various 
panels to divisions/interest groups at ICA and have tentatively invited 
disability scholars to chair them. This is part of a larger move to 
organize and center disability at ICA.

We welcome submissions from postgraduates, early-career, emerging, and 
established scholars, activists or practitioners that:

  * Take on a critical disability studies lens, one which centers
    disability as generative form of knowledge and/or identity.
  * Submissions should consider both the specific ICA division/interest
    group’s call and the main conference theme of disruption.
  * See below for more details on the various ICA divisions/IG targeted
    (and requirements)


Do consider sending in a submission for consideration by 11 October 2024 
(Anywhere on Earth) to (icadisability /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(icadisability /at/ gmail.com)>

Please also note the following:

  * Your submission should indicate the specific CFP that you are
    interested in.
  * We need to balance diversity in the panels (as defined by ICA), so
    please do indicate any relevant information in your author bios.
  * We envision these panels to be hybrid and accessible, so remote
    participants who cannot make it onsite can also participate. Please
    also let us know your preferred mode of participation in your
    submission.
  * We will endeavor to get back to you regarding participation as soon
    as possible after the deadline.
  * We are also happy to discuss ideas so feel free to reach out.
Any questions should be directed to (icadisability /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(icadisability /at/ gmail.com)>

*CFP 1: Disability and Activism, Communication, and Social Justice*

Proposed Panel Chair: Abdul Rohman (RMIT Vietnam)

In this panel, we are keen to consider how disability and its activisms 
(especially digital forms across various media) offer means to disrupt 
communication and advance social/disability justice.

If interested, pls submit a

  * Title and 150-word abstract for your paper
  * 100-word bio for each author
  * https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ACSJ_CFP
    <https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ACSJ_CFP>

*CFP 2: Disability and Children, Adolescents, and the Media*

Proposed Panel Chair: Meryl Alper (Northeastern University)

In this panel, we are keen to explore all media and technologies aimed 
at and/or used by young people (generally birth through late teens), as 
well as the contextual issues surrounding this selection and use, 
especially as it pertains to disability and disruption.

  * Title and 150-word abstract for your paper
  * 100-word bio for each author
  * https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAM_CFP
    <https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAM_CFP>

*CFP 3: Disability and Health Communication*

Proposed Panel Chair: Katie Ellis (Curtin University)

In this panel we are keen to explore questions of disability across 
various aspects of health communications, especially in questions of 
disrupting questions of health communications across society.

  * Title and 150-word abstract
  * 100-word bio for each author
  * https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HEALTH_CFP
    <https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HEALTH_CFP>

*CFP 4: Disability, Communication and Technology*

Proposed Panel Chair: Kuansong Victor ZHUANG (Nanyang Technological 
University)

In this panel we are keen to explore how new and emergent infocomms 
technologies, especially its adoption, use, applications, and effects, 
disrupt existing ways of knowing and understanding disability.

Note that submissions to CAT should focus on an understanding of ICTs, 
with a focus on the technology itself within the context of /human 
/communication

  * Title and a 75-word abstract
  * 100-word bio for each author
  * https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAT_CFP
    <https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAT_CFP>

*CFP 5: Disability and Philosophy, Theory and Critique*

Proposed Panel Chair: Remi M. Yergeau (U of Michigan)

In this panel, we are keen to consider how crip theory can offer a lens 
to think critically about communication and media.

  * Title and 350-word (max) abstract
  * 100-word bio for each author
  * https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PTC_CFP
    <https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PTC_CFP>

*CFP 6: Disability and Popular Media and Culture*

Proposed Panel Chair: Beth Haller (Towson U)

In this panel we are keen to consider disability and disruption within 
the domain of popular media culture.

  * Title and 150-word abstract
  * 100-word bio for each author
  * https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PMC_CFP
    <https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PMC_CFP>

*CFP 7: Disability and Media Industries*

Proposed Panel Chair: Elizabeth Ellcessor (U of Virginia)

In this panel, we are keen to explore questions of disability (and also 
disruptions) especially as it pertains to the critical study of the 
history, organization, structure, economics, management, and 
socio-cultural impact of media industries, engaging with research 
related to multimodal industrial aspects of media – including, but not 
limited to: film, television, digital media, social media, radio, music, 
podcasts, publishing, news, media infrastructures, electronic games, 
livestreaming, and mobile audio-visualities.

  * Title and 150-word abstract
  * 100-word bio for each author
  * https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/MIS_CFP
    <https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/MIS_CFP>

*_ICA 2025 Theme: Disruption_*

Addressing ICA’s 75th anniversary, the 2025 conference theme is an 
invitation to critically reflect on communication studies as a 
discipline and ICA as an agent and site of disciplinary development. 
Theme sessions will take stock of our past, critically review present 
developments, and chart out future avenues for communication research. 
We particularly welcome contributions speaking to three important 
aspects of the theme: communication scholarship as a transformative and 
stabilizing force in society, as a research practice that can be both 
revolutionary and consolidating, and communication studies as a 
disrupted and resilient discipline. In all these contexts, elements of 
disruption and consolidation are not necessarily antithetical but may 
productively be framed as a dialectical relationship.

ICA has made significant strides in amplifying the visibility of 
communication scholarship beyond academia. From democratic backsliding 
to climate change and conflict transformation, our discipline is poised 
to provide relevant answers to many burning questions of our time. 
Through public scholarship, communication scholars can make themselves 
useful by addressing the problems of the world’s current polycrisis. 
They may act as a transformative voice in society (by advocating social 
change) and as a stabilizing force (by maintaining democracy or social 
justice). A key issue in this context is the sometimes troubled 
relationship between scholarship and advocacy.

The public impact of scholarship is typically connected to a 
discipline’s ability to generate original knowledge. During the past 75 
years, communication research has exponentially grown in terms of 
quantity. However, across a variety of disciplines and academic fields, 
such expansion is mostly attributed to the growth in studies that 
consolidate existing knowledge, pushing aside disruptive and 
revolutionary scholarship that forges new directions and breaks existing 
paradigms. The progressive fragmentation of the discipline may have 
contributed to this trend, along with persisting social and global 
inequalities in academia as well as a publication and review culture 
that ntends to disadvantage certain types of research and scholarly 
communities, including those from the Global South.

Communication research is facing these issues while itself being 
disrupted on multiple fronts and, perhaps, with unprecedented 
consequences. AI-based technologies have started revolutionizing 
scholarly practice with vast implications for the way we conduct and 
evaluate scholarship. In addition to high levels of insecurity and 
precarity, researchers face growing demands to publish in prestigious 
venues, obtain large grants, and participate in reviewing and 
evaluations, all putting heavy mental strain on scholars. Through this 
call, we encourage the discipline to think about possible ways to 
consolidate our research environment by growing resilience and 
developing effective coping strategies.

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