[ecrea] CFP - Historiography as Intervention: Communicating Across Geographies, Communities & Divides

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Historiography as Intervention:
Communicating Across Geographies, Communities&  Divides
International Communication Association Preconference
Sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group: Phoenix, May 23, 201=
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Writing history is far from neutral. Recovering undocumented stories
can reassess different groups=92 actions and contributions.
Counterhistories can denaturalize the present and challenge
ideologies. The past provides tools, warnings, solutions and mistakes.
Historiography can engage in contemporary struggles and change the way
we see the world and its possibilities. This ICA preconference
convenes communication scholars pursuing historiographic work and
historians addressing communication- related areas. Some topics may be
established and vibrant areas of historic inquiry; others may be
neglected areas needing appraisal. Panels will address historic issues
in communication scholarship, such as evolving theories and
philosophies, and also stage engagements between related fields, such
as medical historians and health communication scholars or political
communication scholars and social- movement historians. The
preconference will also feature invited speakers from both fields.
Throughout, international and intercultural representation will afford
insights from comparative histories of relevant topics, such as media
policies or strategic interventions. Ultimately, this preconference
aims to instigate intersections and encounters that can provoke
collaborative interventions with issues facing our discipline,
schools, communities, and countries.

Submitted papers should present historiographic methods and/or
historic data, theories or subject matter within a framework of social
intervention by providing tools, offering insight or communicating
information. Work should be from or of interest to historians and
communication scholars. Innovative proposals for transdisciplinary,
multimodal or media-based presentations (e.g., interactive digital
archives, documentary screenings, database tours) are highly
encouraged. Potential topics include, but are not limited to,
historiographic interventions through:
=95 Demystifying moral panics
=95 Recovering contributions, such as minority or female scholars
=95 Counteracting contemporary stereotypes, such as racial technophobia
=95 Raising ethical issues through representing a particular voice,
perspective or agenda
=95 Comparing methods, such as Foucauldean genealogy, Derridean
hauntology or Hayden White=92s discourse tropes
=95 Challenging dominant ideologies and fields of knowledge
=95 Rethinking newness; historicizing contemporary issues and conversations
=95 Staging interdisciplinary conversations, as with visual
communication scholars and art historians, across the field of sound
studies, or economics and communication infrastructures
=95 (Re)making the past, (un)making the present, envisioning potential futu=
res
=95 Critiquing dominant narratives and concepts, such as convergence
culture, network society, silent cinema=92s =93train effect,=94 the long
tail, social media=92s role in the Arab Spring, affective labor,
excesses of postmodernism or textual studies, political economies of
information, etc.
=95 Suggesting policy strategies and solutions

Send paper abstracts or project descriptions of 300 words by November
15, 2011 to D. Travers Scott, (dscott3 /at/ g.clemson.edu). Authors will be
informed of decisions by December 15, 2011. Papers are due May 1,
2012. The preconference will be May 23, 2012 at the conference hotel,
the Phoenix Sheraton Downtown. The preconference is sponsored by the
International Communication Association=92s Communication History
Interest Group and organized by D. Travers Scott of Clemson
University.


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