[Commlist] Call for abstracts: Communication for Change Festival: ‘Connections’

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*Call for abstracts EXTENDED DEADLINE – now due March 2, 2020*

Communication for Change Festival: ‘Connections’. May 4-5, 2020, London. 
<https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/news-events/events/communication-for-change-festival-2020/>

The inaugural Communication for Change Festival invites abstracts for 
papers, posters, exhibitions, workshops, and film screenings on the 
festival’s theme of ‘Connections’.

The Festival is hosted by the Institute for Media and Creative 
Industries, Loughborough University in London and organised in 
collaboration with: the Migrant Memory and the Post-colonial Imagination 
(MMPI) project; and the Rethinking Democracy (REDEM) research platform, 
Malmö University. It will be hosted at Loughborough University’s vibrant 
London campus in East London on May 4-5, 2020. **

*Festival Theme: ‘ Connections’*

We live in a time where the social cohesion of our society is threatened 
and at risk. We are experiencing social and political conflict that 
suggest profound disconnections between what we aspire to do or become, 
and what is possible. Realities and imaginaries often connect poorly, 
many can’t make ends meet, and divisions between communities, cultures, 
nations are prevalent. Practices of communication both divide and bridge 
communities.  In this context, the festival theme, ‘Connections’, draws 
attention to how the research and practice of communication for social 
change enhances a variety of connections, both disciplinary, temporal, 
spatial and relational. How do we connect the past with the present, the 
realities of the global North and South, the lives in one community to 
another, or the online media practices with the offline. How are 
disconnections overcome and connections enhanced?

*Submitting an abstract*

The festival seeks to foster a creative and interdisciplinary 
exploration of this topic, inviting abstracts from a broad gamut of 
inter-related fields of research and practice, such as: communication 
for social change and development, memory studies, conflict and 
development studies, media and cultural studies, migration studies, and 
postcolonial/decolonial studies. We equally invite abstracts from the 
perspectives of social change practitioners, activists, students and 
artists. The Festival creates a space to explore ways of (re)building 
connections in highly divided contexts such as civil conflict and war, 
apartheid and partition, and separation through inequalities.

Abstracts should be 200 - 300 words, and should indicate:

  * Activity type (poster, paper presentation, fishbowls, workshop, film
    screening, other)
  * Participant type (academic, MA student, PhD student, practitioner,
    activist, artist, other)
New deadline for submission of abstracts: March 2, 2020

Please send your submissions to (CfSCFestival /at/ lboro.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(CfSCFestival /at/ lboro.ac.uk)>

Deadline for event registration without paper: April 6, 2020 – register 
via 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communication-for-change-festival-connections-tickets-94667536149**

Questions about the Festival? See 
https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/news-events/events/communication-for-change-festival-2020/for 
updates, or contact (j.noske-turner /at/ lboro.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(j.noske-turner /at/ lboro.ac.uk)>

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