[Commlist] CFP - Doing Global Media Studies: Theories, Practices, Reflections Symposium

Doing Global Media Studies: Theories, Practices, Reflections

CARGC symposium March 22 - 23, 2023 – Call for Proposals


To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Center for Advanced Research in 
Global Communication, the 2023 biannual fellows’ symposium will reflect 
on evolving concepts and methodologies in the field of global 
communication and media studies. We are witnessing ongoing global crises 
from widespread displacements and climate disasters to pandemics and the 
rising threat of fascism. In light of these circumstances, we invite 
emerging scholars, artists, and activists to explore what a global 
approach to media and communication can do today. What is at stake in 
studying global communication and media at this historical moment?


We seek to decenter Western epistemologies by foregrounding the local, 
the situated, and the relational interconnectedness of cultures, 
institutions, and infrastructures through media. In an effort to think 
beyond the national frameworks typically employed by area studies, we 
foreground transregional methods and frameworks of study that situate 
the global within the local and vice versa. Bringing together questions 
of the global and the local allows us as scholars to be reflective and 
reflexive, to situate our own scholarship within the world, rather than 
from an imagined, 'objective' outside.


We invite scholarly and creative projects, including research papers, 
creative writing, video essays or documentaries, sound or audio 
projects, artistic installations, and performances. We welcome 
submissions from early career scholars, as well as artists and activists 
whose work engages these issues. Submissions from scholars, artists, and 
activists based in the Global South are particularly encouraged.

Topics may include:

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    Activist interventions, inclusive practices, and in/equity in global
    communication and media

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    Epistemologies of the planetary, the global, and the local and their
    interrelations

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    Mediating (neo)colonialism, environmental extractivism, and
    competing sovereignties

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    The politics of translation, comparative frameworks, and regional
    approaches

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    Media’s im/mobilities and south-to-south flows of cultural exchange

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    Global perspectives on ( the failures of) communicating
    mis/disinformation, nonsense, and noise

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    Global political economy of media industries, platforms, and popular
    culture


The keynote address will be given by Professor Purnima Mankekar.


Conference Format & Timeline

The CARGC Fellows symposium will take place at the University of 
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and online on March 22 & 23, 2023. The 
symposium is planned as a hybrid event, with in-person participation 
highly encouraged. It will feature a keynote address by Dr. Purnima 
Mankekar and roundtable sessions (in which participants will give 5-8 
minute flash presentations of their work). Senior scholars will act as 
discussion facilitators for the roundtable sessions, responding to and 
providing feedback on participants’ work. The purpose of these 
roundtables is to foster discussion between participants before opening 
up to a wider Q&A from the audience. Accepted participants will also be 
invited to a professional development workshop on teaching global media 
studies and communication.


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    Keynote address and in-person roundtable sessions will be made
    accessible to global audiences through Zoom. Please note that the
    professional development workshop is for symposium presenters only.

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    Accepted participants with financial need may apply for a travel
    grant to offset a portion of the cost of travel

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    Timeline: Submission deadline for abstracts is December 15,
    2022. Acceptance notifications will be sent to selected participants
    by late January 2023. Please note that although all sessions will be
    held in a roundtable format, participants are still asked to
    circulate their conference-length papers and/or creative work to
    their roundtable chair.

Submission Guidelines:

Important Note: Participant(s) may only submit one proposal to the 
conference. Proposals should be uploaded through our submission platform 
here 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJsy7I2iK5qJ6qOJ9uwjXqxESZSWrapTt0noqcuSfVhaXZ9Q/viewform>

Academic Paper Submissions:

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    Select “Academic paper” on the submission form

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    Abstracts and presentations should be in English

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    Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (excluding references)

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    The abstract must clearly and succinctly describe the paper’s topic,
    argument, theoretical framework, or theories from which the project
    draws from, context/data, method/research approach, and expected
    results/findings/intervention.

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    Please indicate whether you intend to participate in person or 
virtually

Creative and Multimodal Work Submissions:

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    Select the appropriate format (“Audio submission,” “Short film or
    documentary,” or “Creative writing”, “Performance”, “Installation” )
    on submission form

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    Abstracts should be in English; creative works in other languages
    should be accompanied by English captions

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    The abstract should be a description of your project no longer than
    300 words (excluding any references)

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    The description should highlight how the piece addresses or grapples
    with the conference theme and/or the topics listed above

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    You may also provide a link to your multimodal project (though this
    is not required)

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    Please indicate whether you intend to participate in person or 
virtually



Please note that to keep the conference interactive and to leave room 
for questions and discussion, participants must be available to present 
their work synchronously during the conference, either in person or via 
Zoom.

Deadline for submissions is December 15, 2022. For any questions or 
concerns, e-mail (cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu)


Submit your proposal HERE 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJsy7I2iK5qJ6qOJ9uwjXqxESZSWrapTt0noqcuSfVhaXZ9Q/viewform>

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