[ecrea] Call for ICA Preconference: Stuart Hall and the Future of Media and Cultural Studies

Call for Proposals
Stuart Hall and the Future of Media and Cultural Studies
ICA 2015 – San Juan, Puerto Rico
21 May 2015, 8:30am-4:30pm
Organizers: Melissa Click, Jonathan Gray, and Adrienne Shaw

Stuart Hall is a household name for all who do critical/cultural work on 
communication; his influence is abundantly evident on second, third, and 
fourth generation work; and he is a revered public intellectual who 
dedicated his career as much to civic society around him as to the 
academy. He is the leading figure in Cultural Studies, and his work is 
canonical in the study of media representations, identity, audiences, 
cultural theory, class, postcolonialism, youth and criminality, 
ideology, ethnic studies, and diaspora. Hall has received countless 
honors, is the subject of books and films, and has a library named after 
him. His death in February 2014 was widely—and deeply—felt. Hall won 
ICA’s Steven H. Chaffee Career Achievement award in May 2014, and this 
preconference will reflect upon Hall’s contributions to and his 
relevance for contemporary and future communication scholarship.

Leaving Jamaica for the UK on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1951, Hall was 
among the first-wave of large scale immigration from the West Indies. 
Positioned as an “outsider” in his home country and the UK undoubtedly 
made him particularly sensitive to the way power operates in, on, and 
through culture. In turn, his work addresses the intersections of power, 
politics, and identity in the production and reception of popular 
culture. Hall never assumed a determinist effect of mass-produced images 
on audiences. He took seriously the possibility of resistance in 
consumption, envisioning ideology as always contested. As Director of 
the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University, 
and later Professor at the Open University, he influenced generations of 
cultural and media theorists.

The preconference will begin with a discussion of Hall’s influences and 
key concepts from a keynote speaker who worked closely with Hall over 
the course of his career. The following two invited panel sessions will 
present and discuss scholarship that engages two of Hall’s enduring 
foci: ideology and culture, and identity, representation, and diaspora. 
The final session of the day will consist of informal concurrent 
workshop sessions (topics to be determined by participant submissions) 
that focus on the continued relevance of Hall’s work. These informal 
workshops will focus on how future work will make use of Hall’s 
scholarship. Given Hall’s Jamaican heritage, we plan to incorporate ICA 
2015’s Caribbean location into this final session by taking our 
exploration of Hall’s continued relevance to the beach (weather permitting)!

Participation fee: $60
A limited number of fee waivers are available. To request a waiver, 
please include a statement of your specific need in your proposal.



Proposals: Submissions should include a brief biographical sketch and a 
300-word statement describing how you believe Hall’s work should be used 
to influence or challenge future work in communication studies. 
Organizers will identify areas of shared interest in submissions to 
organize breakout groups for the concurrent workshop sessions. Scholars 
at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply. All proposals 
must be emailed to (ICAPopComm /at/ gmail.com). The deadline for submissions is 
11:59 PM CST on February 2, 2015. Submissions will be judged on 
relevance, originality, and fit with the preconference theme. 
Notifications of acceptance will be emailed in February 2015.

Proposed Schedule:

8:30-9:00 Welcome and introductions

9:00-10:15 Keynote: Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina

10:15-10:45: Coffee Break

10:45-12:00: Panel 1: Identity, Representation, and Diaspora
Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University
Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics
Jocelyn Géliga Vargas, University of Puerto Rico—Mayagüez

12:00-1:30: Lunch on your own

1:30-2:45: Panel 2: Ideology and Culture
Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania
Jo Littler, City University London
Adrienne Shaw, Temple University

2:45-4:15: Concurrent workshop sessions, topics TBD by submissions

4:15-4:30: Closing remarks

Co-sponsoring ICA Divisions:
Popular Communication
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies
Ethnicity and Race in Communication
Visual Communication Studies
Philosophy, Theory and Critique

Additional Sponsors:
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Media and Communication at Temple University
Department of Communication at the University of Missouri, Columbia
Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Please direct questions to: (ICAPopComm /at/ gmail.com)


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