[Commlist] CFP | Disruption, Transition and Transformation – a transdisciplinary early-career research symposium

We invite you to submit your extended abstracts to be considered for 
presentation at the *LSE Department of Media and Communication’s 
upcoming research Symposium*. This Symposium is designed to offer 
PhDstudents and other early-career academics an engaged and supportive 
audience with which to share their work and receive critical, 
constructive feedback on research in progress. Details are as follows:

*Theme:** Disruption, Transition andTransformation*

The focus of the Symposium is on moments of upheaval and discontinuity – 
within our disciplinary institutions, our practices as social science 
researchers, and in the world at large. Please see sub-themes in the 
full 
CFP<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/events/phd-symposium-2019> below.

Date:**29 March 2019 (Friday)

Venue:**The**London School of Economics and Political Science – London, UK

Abstract requirement:**750-1,000 words

*Deadline for submission:***15 January 2019 (Tuesday)

This year, we are happy to have ***Professor Sarah 
Banet-Weiser*<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/sarah-banet-weiser>of 
the LSE to be our keynote speaker in responding to the theme of the 
Symposium.


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*/Call for Papers/*

This explicitly transdisciplinary Symposium will be an opportunity for 
participants to meet and engage with other researchers working on 
similar topics or problematics. We want to bring contemporary research 
in Media and Communication into productive dialogue with other 
disciplinary perspectives and, in turn, to introduce researchers based 
within other disciplines to the work currently being done in our own 
field. In this way, this Symposium hopes to contribute towards fostering 
a transdisciplinary and transnational research community that is 
equipped to challenge the boundaries that limit our capacity to 
interpret and interrogate current phenomena.

The theme for the Symposium is *Disruption, Transition and 
Transformation. *In order to facilitate a diverse range of submissions 
and discussions on the day, we have left this theme intentionally broad. 
However, the focus of the Symposium is on moments of upheaval and 
discontinuity – within our disciplinary institutions, our practices as 
social science researchers, and in the world at large. What is the 
productive potential of disruption? How can we, as social researchers 
and theorists, keep step with the rapid permutations of power, culture 
and everyday experience in the social environment we study?  These are 
the big questions that will drive our discussions.

We are inviting extended abstracts of *750-1,000 words*using the 
following themes. We encourage submissions to interpret these themes in 
their own way,and offer a list of suggested topics as a guide only.


*1.    Disrupting politics*

In this session, we will be looking at research that interrogates 
disruptions to the status quo of politics and the 
continuity/discontinuity of power relations in contemporary societies. 
How can media and communication perspectives help inform our 
understanding of the (in)stability of power in the contemporary moment? 
How are transformations in political processes (electoral manipulation, 
dataveilance, fake news etc.) and political paradigm shifts (the crisis 
of liberal democracy, the rise of authoritarian populism etc.) 
contributing to new forms of domination or control? What becomes of 
political agency in this context, and how might resistance need to be 
reimagined and reengineered? These are just come of the questions that 
will guide this session.

*2.    Disrupting boundaries*

In this session, we invite research on the topic of disruption as it 
relates to boundaries: be they physical (as in, for example, state 
borders), epistemological (as in, for example, the distinction between 
media ‘creators’ and ‘audiences’), categorical (as in, for example, 
categories of gender), spatial (as in, for example, the ‘distance’ 
between represented Others and Western media publics), institutional (as 
in, for example, the divide between the social science ‘academy’ and 
other institutional fields), or any number of other interpretations.

*3.    Disrupting the discipline*

In this session, we invite submissions that explicitly challenge or 
‘disrupt’ the disciplinary dynamics at work in the field of media 
communications – our canonical theories, our dominant empirical methods, 
our usual research objects, our bibliographies, our readings lists, our 
culture, and our understanding of ourselves as a coherent ‘field’ more 
generally. In particular, we invite feminist, decolonial and queer 
interruptions to the institutionalised practice of media and 
communication research, as well as theoretical and methodological 
interventions more broadly.


Extended abstracts should be accompanied by a working title for your 
paper and a briefauthor biography of no more than 100 words.

*The deadline for submissions is 15th January 2019*. Submissions will 
then be reviewed, with all applicants receiving notification as to 
whether or not they have been invited to present by 31^st January. The 
date for the Symposium is *Friday 29^th March 2019*, with further 
details, including venue, to be confirmed in January. The event is free 
of charge for participants and attendees.

Please send submissions and inquiries to *(media.phd.symposium /at/ lse.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(media.phd.symposium /at/ lse.ac.uk)> *

For up to date information, see the event’s webpage: 
*http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/events/phd-symposium-2019
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