[Commlist] cfp: International Conference “All That Melts into Air Is Solid: World of Change”

An International Conference in Madrid, Spain:
“All That Melts into Air Is Solid: World of Change”

The deadline for abstracts (15 June) is fast approaching and the 
Steering Committee can confirm a second keynote speaker.
The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, 
Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary 
conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.
The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 
2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro 
stops from Puerta del Sol).
We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 
2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due 
date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans 
as needed.
Call for Papers
In the epochal year of 1989, as the Cold War ostensibly heaved and began 
to expire, David Harvey discussed time/space compression. In Harvey’s 
view, the techniques and technologies of capitalism were associated with 
profound changes in the quotidian practices of everyday life; deeply 
inscribed changes included the fundamental categories of time (sped up 
by neoliberal convulsions) and space (shrunk down by waves of 
innovations in media and transport). With similar theoretical reach at 
the same moment, Arjun Appadurai’s famous 1990 essay proposed five 
“-scapes” in which globalized activity and change occurs. In particular, 
Appadurai posits ethnoscapes, technoscapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, 
and mediascapes that are further complexified by their disjunctive 
boundaries. In the decades following these theoretical contributions, 
the upheavals of multiply-determined changes in life across the globe 
have become more acute.
It is time to take stock.
We will try to revive the ambitious scope of past studies on constant 
change in daily life, as seen through media in all its forms, politics, 
culture, the economy, political economy, and patterns of social 
interaction. We are also interested in specifying what really is a 
rupture with the past and what presents old wine in new bottles.
Topics and case studies are limited only by the imagination and include 
these central concerns:
-Crisis in all its dimensions, including invented crises and real ones 
that are ignored
-Mediated representation of change & crisis
-New contours of the news
-Neoliberalism & its cultural concomitants
-Social media tidal waves
-Stops & starts in globalization
-Identities under construction
-The tense alliance between online and f2f life
We are also interested in abstracts that address topics that may include 
the following:
-The shape-shifting European Union and the discourses that surround it
-Novel forms of mobility
-New geographies of power
-Utopia & dystopia (and representations of them)
-New forms of conflict and cohesion
-Shifts in media industries
-The metamorphosizing classroom

Keynote Speakers
The conference has confirmed the participation of two keynote speakers: 
Christopher A. Chávez (School of Journalism and Communication, Carolyn 
Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor, University of Oregon) and Jack 
Z. Bratich (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University).

Application to Participate
Apply to participate through this form:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ngMRZ2XCLEO2gKOvZnkOBnP8k8NvhzlKlR4BSTemeHFURUtBUEVURFZOUFBIN0VTS1oxVkdZUE4yWS4u&origin=Invitation&channel=0 
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ngMRZ2XCLEO2gKOvZnkOBnP8k8NvhzlKlR4BSTemeHFURUtBUEVURFZOUFBIN0VTS1oxVkdZUE4yWS4u&origin=Invitation&channel=0>

Contact
Questions? The conference email address is:
(change-conf-madrid /at/ slu.edu)


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ commlist.org)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------