[Commlist] CFP PreConference at ICA: Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion and Gender

*ICA 2020 Preconference
Announcement and Call for Papers Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, 
Religion and Gender*
On a global scale, negotiations over the expression of gender and 
sexuality have become central to political and social discourse and have 
been framed in terms of religious tradition and imagery. Some prominent 
examples include the debates centered around limits to contraception, 
transgender access to bathrooms, who may wear religious covering in 
public, who may marry, drive, vote, get an eduction, etc. At the same 
time as awareness is being raised about rampant sexual harassment and 
assault of women, non-white, indigenous and queer individuals, 
hyper-masculine leaders (Trump, Duterte, Bolsonaro) are ascending to 
powerful positions as they boast about sexual assault and demean female 
competitors. While digital media facilitate global networks of political 
activism related to gender justice issues as well as creative 
expressions of resistance, they also enable white nationalist movements, 
men’s rights groups, incel networks, anti-Muslim hate crimes, and the 
circulation of misogynistic and racist memes. Throughout these debates 
and conversations religion and religious symbolism are used as 
rhetorical touchstones and expressive performances in unexpected ways.

This preconference will explore how religion and media function as dual 
and intertwined modalities through which identities and their various 
intersections are expressed or contested. We will take up questions of 
gender, race, sexuality, class, ability, indigeneity and the way that 
they are performed and understood in, through, and alongside religion 
and media. We welcome papers that consider religion, media, and gender 
as complex, multivalent categories that mutually constitute one another. 
And we anticipate a conversation that is global in scope and welcome 
projects with a focus on the Global South and indigenous contexts.

The preconference will include an opening plenary session with experts 
in the field, including Sarah Banet-Weiser from the London School of 
Economics, Zala Volcic from Monash University in Australia, and Pradip 
Thomas from University of Queensland in Australia The remainder of the 
preconference will be devoted to panels made up of submitted proposals 
and a final roundtable discussion.

Papers or abstracts of 250 words maximum should be submitted to the 
organizers at (cmrc /at/ colorado.edu) <mailto:(cmrc /at/ colorado.edu)> by December 
15, 2019. Acceptances will be emailed at the time of the overall ICA 
acceptances in January.

Preconference organizers and contacts:
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado (hoover /at/ colorado.edu) 
<mailto:(hoover /at/ colorado.edu)>; Johanna Sumiala, University of Helsinki 
(johanna.sumiala /at/ helsinki.fi) <mailto:(johanna.sumiala /at/ helsinki.fi)>; Andrea 
Press, University of Virginia (apress /at/ virginia.edu) 
<mailto:(apress /at/ virginia.edu)>; Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University 
(heidic /at/ tamu.edu) <mailto:(heidic /at/ tamu.edu)>; Sarah McFarland Taylor, 
Northwestern University (smcftaylor /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(smcftaylor /at/ gmail.com)>; Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, University of 
Iowa jenna-supp- (montgomerie /at/ uiowa.edu) <mailto:(montgomerie /at/ uiowa.edu)>; 
Corrina Laughlin, Loyola Marymount University (Corrina.Laughlin /at/ LMU.edu); 
Kristin Peterson, Boston College (petersub /at/ bc.edu) <mailto:(petersub /at/ bc.edu)>;

Endorsing Divisions: Philosophy, Theory, and Critique; Global 
Communication & Social Change; Feminist Scholarship Division

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