[Commlist] CFP - Transnational families and media practices: Methods, ethics and critical approaches

Please find below information about the conference jointly organized by 
the International and Intercultural Communication division and the 
Diaspora Migration and the Media division. Feel free to circulate!

*Topic: *Transnational families and media practices: Methods, ethics and 
critical approaches

*Venue: *Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

*Date: *7-9 December 2023**

*Link*: https://ecrea.eu/event-5179455 <https://ecrea.eu/event-5179455>

*Deadline*to submit abstracts is 28 April 2023.

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*Transnational families and media practices: Methods, ethics and 
critical approaches *

Transnational families, through their ability to cross borders, connect 
cultures, expand the meanings and limits of national belonging, and 
negotiate the cultural, linguistic and psychological challenges of 
migration, have become exemplary models of “mobile lives” (Elliott and 
Urry, 2010). Transnational families offer insights into the 
contradictions and complexities of interculturality (Dervin, 2017) as a 
lived reality permeating more and less intimate interpersonal 
experiences. The centrality of transnational family communication in 
today’s world is enhanced by everyday digital media usage, the ubiquity 
of portable devices and the new technical affordances of platforms and 
apps. Transnational families therefore help us apprehend historical 
transformations connected to mediated experiences of crossing borders 
and interculturality.

While the attention of scholars has intensified around how transnational 
families both shape and are shaped by the (urban) spaces they leave and 
enter, we contend that more attention needs to be paid to the 
methodological and ethical challenges researchers face when studying 
transnational families and communities. This conference provides an 
opportunity for scholars to discuss the assumptions underpinning their 
research and to share critical reflections on the ethical 
responsibilities that researchers have when observing transnational 
families and communities, including through digital platforms and their 
connection with mobility processes in and through cities.

We invite scholars and PhD researchers to submit abstract proposals that 
engage with new theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches to 
the study of transnational families and their communication practices in 
Europe and beyond. We also welcome submissions that can provide 
historical perspectives into the (dis)continuities characterizing 
transnational families and their media practices. Contributions that 
call into question Eurocentric forms of knowledge through decolonial 
narratives and frameworks are especially welcome.

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*Confirmed keynote speakers: *

Professor Myria Georgiou (The London School of Economics and Political 
Science, UK) and Associate Professor Amanda Paz Alencar (Erasmus 
University Rotterdam, the Netherlands).

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*Potential topics: *

- New approaches to the concept of family and transnational relations in 
a mediated world

- New understandings of transnational families and digital connectivity

- Diaspora networks

- Creative and participatory methods with transnational families

- Ethical and methodological dilemmas on media practices of 
transnational families

- Home language maintenance and development of transnational families

- Transnational families as actors of interculturality

- Decolonial approaches to transnational families

- Innovative approaches to Family Language Policy and translanguaging

- Ethical dilemmas of researching the concept of health within 
transnational families

- Historical perspectives and focus on (dis)continuities

- Transnational families and diverse cities

In addition to the conference, we will be hosting a joint workshop for 
PhD students on the 6th of December 2023, in Rotterdam. The workshop 
will focus upon innovative methods in studying transnational 
families/communities, digital media usage, and ethical challenges 
associated with this. The separate application for this one-day workshop 
can be found here 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OEPKIbFtwRh7jE0ckALHMgTyt3Zc8AS16vfZxV9JIUs/edit>.

Please note that it is possible for Doctoral researchers to attend both 
the workshop and the conference, or only one event.

*Submission guidelines *

Submissions for _individual papers_ should include an abstract (max 400 
words including keywords and main references) and a short biographical 
note (max 100 words). Abstracts should be submitted electronically, 
using the online submission form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZ0abArZ0WnXJhewFuO_0FrtBxFULuHO6eP6x2rqDDua56FQ/viewform?usp=share_link> by 
April 28th, 2023.

Submissions for _panels_ should be submitted via e-mail to 
(ecreadmmicc /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ecreadmmicc /at/ gmail.com)> by 28 April 2023. 
Submissions should include a chairperson, a rationale for the panel (250 
words), and the names of four speakers including their abstract (250 
words) and biographical note (max 100 words).

We recommend that you include the following information in your abstract:

∙An introductory statement which explains the background/significance of 
your research

∙A description of your theoretical framework and methodology

∙An overview of the main findings of your research

∙A concluding statement

The conference will be in person only. Proposal acceptance notification: 
mid-June.


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