[Commlist] Call for Applications: 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School

We’re pleased to share the call for applications for the *2026 Southern 
Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and 
Possibilities across Asia 
<https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias_nuq/summer-school-cfa-2026.html>*, 
taking place *May 11–14, 2026,* in *Hanoi, Vietnam*.


The /Southern Digitalities Summer School/ is designed to develop 
critical skills for early-career scholars of media and communication 
working on digital transformations across a broad range of Asian 
contexts, spanning West, South, Central, East, Southeast Asia, and 
beyond. At the heart of the summer school is the concept of /Southern 
digitalities/—a notion that invites us to rethink how we theorize 
digitalities i.e. the condition of living in digital cultures by taking 
seriously digital experiences, cultures, and technology in the Global 
South, a nexus made up of diverse and interconnected digital encounters, 
practices, and frictions, rather than a neatly defined geography.


Co-organized by the *Center for Digital Cultures and Societies 
(University of Queensland)*, the *Institute for Advanced Study in the 
Global South (#IAS_NUQ), Northwestern University in Qatar*, and the 
*School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts (Vietnam National 
University)*, the summer school builds critical skills for early-career 
scholars researching digital transformations across Asia.


*Instructors*

 1.

    *Marwan M. Kraidy* (Northwestern University in Qatar)

 2.

    *Nicholas Carah* (University of Queensland, Australia)

 3.

    *Cheryll Ruth Soriano* (De LaSalle University, Philippines)

 4.

    *Hatim El-Hibri* (George Mason University, USA)

 5.

    *Clovis Bergère* (Northwestern University in Qatar)

 6.

    *Giang Nguyen-Thu* (University of Queensland, Australia)


*Deadline:* *December 10, 2025*

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For details and to apply, please check out our website here: 
https://bit.ly/summerschool26 <https://bit.ly/summerschool26>





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