[Commlist] ICA Oceania Hub

The Oceania hub of the 2025 ICA (International Communication 
Association) conference will be held at Massey University, Palmerston 
North, Aotearoa-New Zealand from June 12 to 16. It will allow people in 
the region to participate in ICA without flying all the way to Boulder.

Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)

Communication and Media Studies at Massey University

Organizers: Debalina Dutta, Sy Taffel, Sean Phelan, & Mohan Dutta

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*Call for Submissions Due Date: March 7, 2025, 11:59 pm NZST*

The Oceania Hub of the International Communication Association (ICA) 
2025 conference, hosted at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University in 
Aotearoa New Zealand, explores questions surrounding disrupting 
Communication Research through *the lens of Te Tiriti and Social 
Justice*. Drawing on communication scholarship organized around the 
various registers of social justice, the Hub examines the intersections 
of communication theorizing and practice, mobilized toward disruptions 
and consolidation. The hub will be held in hybrid form, with both 
in-person and virtual sessions. *Selected panels, papers, and 
interventions will be considered for waiver of conference registration 
fees.*

We invite disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions and multimedia 
communication interventions (video stories, film, performances, art 
forms, photographic images, sound productions) from the broader 
Asia-Pacific, focusing on the representation of the scholarship of 
communication practice from the Islands of the Pacific. The salience of 
Pacific participation is constituted around the global sustainability 
challenges of climate change, rising water levels, extreme inequality 
etc. We see the hub as offering an opening for disrupting what counts as 
communication scholarship through the engagement with practices of 
communication for social change.

The ICA Regional Hub at CARE will comprise a one-day hybrid workshop on 
“Connecting theory and practice as disruptions.” The workshop will bring 
in scholars from across the Asia-Pacific in both virtual and 
face-to-face sessions, focusing on key questions exploring the 
intersections of theory and practice in the context of addressing 
complex global challenges at a time when reactionary forces are on the 
rise. Aligned with the ICA 2025 conference theme of “Disrupting and 
Consolidating Communication Research,” the workshop will center the 
questions of disruptions from the context of the Pacific, anchoring the 
conversations in the struggles for justice and/or sustainability among 
others in communities across the Pacific. Sessions will connect with 
local organizers and activists in generating conversations on key 
questions on decolonizing knowledge. Centering the principles of Kaupapa 
Māori and indigenous methods across Asia and the Pacific, the workshop 
will explore the role of community as an organizing space for building 
knowledge.

The Hub will operate in a *hybrid model,* with face-to-face 
participation complementing virtual participation. We welcome *paper or 
panel submissions* on the following topics and beyond:

  * The futures of struggles around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
  * Decolonizing communication scholarship
  * Sustainable communicative futures
  * ‘Disruptive innovation’ and social justice
  * AI and/as disruption
  * Disruptive alternatives to corporate platforms and infrastructures
  * Indigenous data sovereignty
  * Internationalization of the culture wars
  * Communication theory and mutant neoliberalism
  * The normalization of reactionary politics
  * Cultures of political resistance
  * Climate justice
  * Communication theory, transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity
  * Media cultures and ecologies
  * Imperialism, geopolitics and multipolarity

We extend a special invitation to postgraduate students, activists and 
scholars from the Global South, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and those living 
with disabilities.

We invite submissions from the region addressing the theme “Disrupting 
and consolidating Communication Research.” The submissions can take the 
form of academic papers as well as *multimedia forms beyond the text* 
such as photos, audio, video stories, film, performance etc.

Please submit a title and an abstract no longer than 250 words. If you 
are submitting a multimedia intervention, please describe the 
interventions in the abstract. Please email your submission to Debalina 
Dutta at (D.Dutta /at/ massey.ac.nz) <mailto:(D.Dutta /at/ massey.ac.nz)> by *March 7, 
2025, 11:59 pm NZST.*

For more information on the ICA conference, including information on 
fees, see here https://www.icahdq.org/BlankCustom.asp?page=ICA25-theme

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