[ecrea] CFP: “IDENTITY, CULTURE & COMMUNICATION” Conference at SLU Madrid Campus.

“IDENTITY, CULTURE&  COMMUNICATION”

A Cross-Disciplinary, International Conference Convened at

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY—MADRID, SPAIN CAMPUS

19-21 APRIL 2012

In the “Saturated Self”, Kenneth Gergen responds to globalization and
the ballyhooed “communications revolution” by coining the term
“multiphrenia”; this neologism accounts for “the splitting of the
individual into a multiplicity of self-investments”. On this
theorization, new technologies have saturated the subject in multiple
competing paradigms, values, ways of life, modes of communicating,
ideologies, and technological substrates. Without undue nostalgia, we
may posit the subject not as a stable monad – but as a malleable
conglomerate of relationships in an online and offline socio-cultural
milieu with some new (and not so new) ideological and material
concomitants.

The objective of this international and cross-disciplinary conference
is to investigate the overarching concepts of identity, culture and
communication as well as the relationships among them. Some orienting
questions: What ideologies and their associated subjectivities have
been enabled (or transmutated) by globalization and the
“communications revolution”? How is the subject represented on screen
and in new media – and to what effect? Has space been cleared for a
revival of social class in discussions of identity? As globalization
plays out, what is the relation between Self and Other, between Us and
Them? How do scholars move beyond 1990s concepts of identity and
identity politics? What is the place of agency?

Areas of interest: Interpersonal communication and relationships, new
media, the theory of ideology and the subject, critical accounts of
commercial culture, ethnography, intercultural communication,
international journalism, international education, conflict,
subcultures, identity on screen, immigration and media, discourse
studies.

KEY NOTE ADDRESS: Professor James Curran, Director of Goldsmiths
Leverhulme Media Research Center, University of London: “Demystifying
the Internet”

SPECIFICATIONS: To apply, please send the following material to the
committee: (1) An abstract of 250-350 words; (2) 5 keywords; (3) Name,
affiliation and contact information.

ABSTRACTS DUE: 5 January 2012.

LANGUAGES: Paper and address may be in English or in Spanish.

CONFERENCE DATES: Thursday, 19 April - Saturday, 21 April, 2012.

LOCATION: Saint Louis University-Madrid, Spain Campus.

EMAIL ADDRESS: (icc.conference.2012 /at/ gmail.com)


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