[ecrea] CFP: Indian Media Studies

The Indian Institute of Advanced Study is happy to announce a call for 
papers for an international conference entitled “Indian Media Studies: 
Contemporary Perspectives” to be held July 25-26, 2017 at the IIAS 
premises in Shimla.

The past three decades have seen a spate of publications that have 
attempted to theorize various aspects of Indian media. We are witnessing 
a thriving field of media research at the crossroads of a variety of 
academic disciplines including Anthropology, History, Sociology, 
Political Science, Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Communication 
Studies. This is an opportune moment to take stock of this rich and 
growing field and to create new frames that will help us better 
understand media’s role in the making of contemporary India. For the 
purpose of this seminar ‘media studies’ will refer to work on 
television, radio, print, web and social media as well as the more 
cognate fields of mobile telephony, advertising, public relations and 
informatics. Rather than considering these media forms and communication 
practices in isolation, the conference intends to look into the larger 
contexts where such forms and practices converge in technologies, 
expertise, entrepreneurial endeavors, markets and reception to produce a 
mediated social framework. Cyber cultures and digital technologies 
particularly characterize such a framework in our times, demanding a 
critical, inter-disciplinary engagement with media as a whole. The 
conference will consist of 8 single-session panels tentatively 
structured around the following themes: Media histories; Media pedagogy; 
Media industries; Audiences and Publics; Regional and Vernacular Media; 
Alternative Media; Media Law; New/Digital Media, and India in Global Media.

The conference is being co-sponsored by the National University of 
Singapore, The University of Michigan, The University of Oregon and 
Westminster University.  The organizers hope to publish an edited volume 
based on the conference proceedings which will provide a comprehensive 
overview of the state of Indian media studies and function as an 
intellectually stimulating guide for students and researchers in the 
field. The conference is organized by Biswarup Sen (University Oregon), 
Abhijit Roy (Jadavpur University) and Bindu Menon (IIAS, Shimla)

A limited number of participants will be invited for the seminar. We 
especially encourage young scholars to apply. Those interested in 
participating should send an abstract (500 words maximum) of the 
proposed paper along with their C.V. to the following Email ID:
•	(aro /at/ iias.ac.in)

Proposals should be submitted by January 7th 2017 and selected 
participants will be informed by January 20th, 2017.


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