[Commlist] CFP Postcolonial publics: art and citizen media in Europe

*CFP: Postcolonial publics: art and citizen media in Europe*

We are delighted to invite contributions to a conference paper  on the 
topic of postcolonial publics expressed and engaged through “citizen 
media” (Rodriguez 2001; Baker & Blaagaard 2016) and art, in a 
postcolonial Europe. The conference papers will also serve as chapters 
for an edited volume which will be published soon after.

We want to interrogate the proliferation of digital media and global 
culture, and the changes happening in public intellectual engagements. 
From the adoration of the single (often male, often white) genius to 
the anonymity of diverse, affective publics, a postcolonial perspective 
invites contemporary public engagement to have many faces and multiple 
voices, and addressing new issues such as the environmental crisis and 
the resurgence of racism. Creativity and art can play a significant role 
in this development. Performance and visual expressions in the European 
space interpellate the situated public, but also produce transnational 
political dialogue and travel across digital space. Embodied 
performances challenge the cerebral stereotype and classical conception 
of what public engagement is and should be. Moreover, digital platforms 
have made available space for expressions that break the form and 
formulas of public and political speech. However, despite the expansion 
of public participation, social divisions based on race, gender, 
sexuality and able-bodiedness still hold sway and begs the question of 
positionality in relations to institutions, in the different fields of 
art and media, when it comes to political and social change.

The edited volume and conference envision postcolonial citizen media and 
art as practices and products encompassing a wide range of expressions: 
from poetry to journalism to Twitter-writing; from art to graffiti to 
Instagram-activism; and from celebrity activism to the uprising of 
“affective publics” (Papacharissi 2015).

Topics for contributions may include but are not limited to:

  * Migrant social media narratives (visual, aural, performative)
  * Exiled artists’ political expressions of citizenship and belonging
  * Social movements’ visual tactics and digital strategies
  * Celebrity activism and co-optation on gender, race and postcolonial
    issues
  * Citizen journalism and postcolonial counterpublics
  * Street art, performance and public engagement in postcolonial Europe
  * Questions of citizenship, voice and witnessing, in a postcolonial
    perspective
  * Media activism, academic activism, artivism for a postcolonial Europe
  * Postcolonial media and art interventions in the environmental crisis

The publication and conference is part of the /Postcolonial 
Intellectuals and Their European Publics Network/ 
<http://www.postcolonialstudies.nl/p/mission-statement.html>, (PIN), 
which is funded by the NWO <https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/ig18014>. The 
network brings together international and interdisciplinary scholars, 
activists, and artists to explore the changing face and voice of the 
European intellectuals in a postcolonial Europe. This publication and 
conference are jointly organized by Shaul Bassi and Sabrina Marchetti 
(Centre Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University 
<https://hscif.org/venice/>), Bolette Blaagaard (Department of 
Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Copenhagen 
<https://www.communication.aau.dk/>) and Sandra Ponzanesi (Department of 
Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University 
<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-media-and-culture-studies>).

The conference will take place in Venice on the *26-27th of May 2022*. 
Keynote speakers will be announced in due time. The publication based on 
the conference papers will follow soon after. Authors selected for the 
volume will be invited to the conference to present the final drafts of 
their papers. Final chapters will be 7,000 words all included. The 
volume will be published by Ca’ Foscari University Press 
<https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/>as Open Access eBook 
in the Summer 2022

If you are interested in contributing, please submit your abstract (max. 
500 words) by the *15th of June* at the following email address: 
(hsc /at/ unive.it) <mailto:(hsc /at/ unive.it)>

*Deadlines*

15 June 2021 Abstracts submission

30 June 2021 Notification of selections

15 January 2022 First draft of full chapters

9 May 2022 Final chapters

26-27 May 2022 Conference in Venice

15 June 2022 Submission to Publisher

*Previous conferences of the PIN Network:*

Utrecht University (5-6 February 2019):info 
<http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/2019/02/08/conference-postcolonial-intellectuals-and-their-european-publics-utrecht-university/>

University of Muenster (5-6 September 2019) – In collaboration with the 
University of Lisbon: info 
<https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/en/ptts/Muenster/currentresearch/pin.html>

University of Leeds (21-22 and 28-29 January 2021): info 
<https://baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/>




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