[Commlist] CFP: #CommunicationSoWhite: Discipline, Scholarship, and the Media

Call for Submissions:

International Communication Association 2019 Pre-conference

#CommunicationSoWhite: Discipline, Scholarship, and the Media

Friday, May 24, 2019
Washington D.C., USA
 DESCRIPTION

As part of an ongoing movement to decenter white masculinity as the 
normative core of scholarly inquiry, the recent article, 
“#CommunicationSoWhite” by Chakravartty et al. (2018) in the Journal of 
Communication examined racial disparities within citational practices to 
make a broader intervention on ways current Communication scholarship 
reproduces institutional racism and sexism. The underrepresentation of 
scholars of color within the field in regards to citations, editorial 
positions, and publications and ongoing exclusion of nonwhite, feminist, 
queer, post-colonial, and Indigenous voices is a persistent and systemic 
problem in the production of disciplinary knowledge. ICA President Paula 
Gardner echoed similar sentiments in her 2018 presidential address, 
calling for steps for inclusion and diversity within the International 
Communication Association as well as the larger field.

This pre-conference aims to highlight, consider, and intervene in these 
issues. We seek submissions that address areas such as:

·       The marginalization of communication scholarship in which race, 
ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other axes of exclusion are central;

·       Communication scholarship in the context of the global rise of 
white supremacy and right-wing ethno-nationalism movements;

·       Communication scholarship from postcolonial and decolonial 
perspectives;

·       Who tends to be hired and who serves as leaders/gatekeepers in 
the field;

·       The politics of citation and publication;

·       How #CommunicationSoWhite can function as an intervention within 
communication studies organizations, departments, and scholarship.
We anticipate many submissions will center on the U.S. and other Western 
contexts; we also hope the pre-conference will provide a discussion that 
spans both global North and South, and we encourage participation by 
submitters from outside North America and the U.K.

Please submit either an EXTENDED ABSTRACT or a PANEL PROPOSAL.
Extended abstracts should be 1,500-3,000 words, including notes and 
references.  We encourage different types of submissions including 
position papers, case studies, and more conventional research papers 
that tackle any issue relating to the preconference themes.

Panel proposals should include a minimum of four participants.  We will 
accept panels following a traditional format where presenters each speak 
for 10-15 minutes before a Q-and-A period.  We also encourage panel 
proposals that do not follow such a format; e.g. consider high-density 
panels, which have six or more participants who each speak for 6 minutes 
or less, or panels where panelists circulate their papers to each other 
ahead of time to generate a more engaged discussion during the 
presentation session.  Provide a 400-word rationale describing the panel 
overall, a 200-word abstract for each participant’s contribution, and a 
list of participants’ names, affiliations, and contact information.
Travel grants: Depending on funding availability, we may have the 
ability to offer one or two modest travel grants (maximum $400).  If you 
are a graduate student and/or a scholar resident in a non-Tier A country 
(see https://www.icahdq.org/page/tiers for a list), please note this 
status in your submission and indicate that you would like to be 
considered for a travel grant.

Exclusions: Submissions should not consist primarily of previously 
published or in-press scholarship.
Deadline: Please submit by Thursday, February 7, 2019, 16:00 UTC, by 
emailing BOTH Eve Ng at (nge /at/ ohio.edu) and Khadijah Costley White at 
(klw147 /at/ comminfo.rutgers.edu)

Attendance by non-presenters: Those who are not presenting are also 
welcome to register for attendance. (Registration information to come 
shortly.)

If you have questions, please contact both of the following 
pre-conference organizers:

Eve Ng: (nge /at/ ohio.edu)

Khadijah Costley White: (klw147 /at/ comminfo.rutgers.edu)

DATE AND LOCATION
The pre-conference will take place on Friday, May 24, 2019, in 
Washington D.C., USA, at a venue close to the ICA conference hotel. 
Exact location will be announced when it is finalized.  The 
pre-conference will end in time for participants to attend the opening 
plenary in the evening at the Washington Hilton.

Organizers:
Eve Ng, Ohio University, USA
Khadijah Costley White, Rutgers University, USA
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., University of Iowa, USA
Anamik Saha, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Organizing Groups:
Ethnicity and Race in Communication division
LGBTQ Studies interest group

Co-Sponsors:
Activism, Communication and Social Justice interest group
Feminist Scholarship division
Global Communication and Social Change division
Mass Communication division
Popular Communication division


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