[Commlist] CFP ICA 2026 Oceania Hub

We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the ICA 2026 Oceania 
Hub: Communicative Equality Against Empire: Socialism, Anticapitalism, 
Anticolonialism, Antiimperialism, hosted by the Center for 
Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey 
University, Te Papaioea Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand, 6–7 June 
2026.

The Hub is a hybrid gathering (face-to-face and online) that convenes 
scholars, organizers, activists, trade unionists, and community partners 
to theorize and practice communicative equality as an explicitly 
socialist, anticapitalist, anticolonial, and antiimperialist project. 
Over two days, we will build a shared lexicon and shared practice of 
refusal, positioning communication scholarship as a terrain of class 
struggle, anticolonial organizing, and internationalist solidarity.

Submission themes include:

1. Socialism, Class, and the Political Economy of Communication

2. Anticolonialism, Land, and Indigenous Sovereignty

3. Antiimperialism and Global Solidarity

4. Refusal as Communicative Method

5. The Living Lexicon of Liberation — a collaborative, co-authored 
decolonial, anticapitalist, antiimperialist lexicon

We welcome individual papers, pre-constituted panels, workshops and 
movement clinics, multimodal and creative interventions, and lexicon 
entries.

Submission formats:

• Individual papers (250-word abstract)

• Pre-constituted panels of 3–5 papers (500-word rationale plus abstracts)

• Workshops and movement clinics (250-word abstract)

• Multimodal and creative interventions (250-word abstract)

• Lexicon entries (300–800 words)

Key dates:

• Submissions open: 15 April 2026

• Submission deadline: 2 May 2026

• Notification of acceptance: 6 May 2026

• Conference fee: NZD $200

Please send your extended abstracts to Debalina Dutta 
(at_D.Dutta /at/ massey.ac).nz_ <mailto:(D.Dutta /at/ massey.ac.nz)>. Include your 
name, affiliation, community or organizational ties where relevant, 
submission type, and a short bio (100 words).

We actively welcome submissions from scholars, organizers, and community 
partners working outside conventional academic infrastructures, and from 
those whose first language is not English. Submissions from Oceania, the 
Pacific Islands, South and Southeast Asia, and other Global South 
locations are especially encouraged.


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