[Commlist] Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies: CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference Call for Papers

The Center for Advance Research for Global Communication fellows are 
pleased to welcome submissions for the CARGC Fellows 2025 Biennial 
Conference. This conference is an excellent space for students, early 
career scholars, and practitioners. Please see the Call for Papers below 
and feel free to share it with anyone interested.

Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies
CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference Call for Papers
April 10-11th, 2025 | Philadelphia, USA
In April 2023, CARGC hosted the Fellows' Symposium, centered around " 
/Doing Global Communication and Media Studies/." Since then, the world 
has witnessed a surge in political violence, multiple genocides, media 
censorship, and a subsequent dependence on social media for news. During 
this time, student activists across college campuses raised awareness 
about what the United Nations and the International Court of Justice 
believe to be evidence of a genocide in Gaza. As the intersections of 
manufactured humanitarian and media crises continue to evolve, this 
symposium asks not what a global approach to media and communication 
/can /achieve today, but rather, what it /should /strive to accomplish. 
What are the conditions under which we produce knowledge in our field, 
and what are the outcomes of that production -- is there a media 
scholarship crisis? This symposium reflects upon our tools and 
methodologies to rethink entrenched power structures and disrupt 
prevailing narratives of objectivity and neutrality.
We ask: historically, what has been the role of media and communication 
scholars in times of global crises? To what extent is the "political”― 
whether understood broadly or through specific contextualization ― 
linked with the civic, ethical, elemental or epistemic underpinnings of 
global media scholarship? How can scholarly practices- methodologically 
and pedagogically- challenge and unsettle existing ideological 
frameworks? Certainly, media reporting on Palestine and the erasure of 
its people raises questions regarding the responsibilities of media 
studies scholars in and out of academic spaces. What broader insights 
can we glean from this crisis about the strengths and limitations of 
global media studies? Additionally, how can a critical analysis of these 
crises deepen our understanding of the historical, geographical, and 
future dimensions of the field?
The CARGC Fellows Symposium invites you to participate in a collective 
space of supportive peers, encouraging contributions from early-career 
academics and practitioners alike. Submissions should address any of the 
above questions and themes to advance critical discussions in global 
media and communication studies. We look for critical scholarship on one 
or more of the following issues, but not limited to:
● genealogies of critical media scholarship
● solidarities in times of crisis
● collaborative media practices and third spaces
● critical media approaches and ethnographies
● practices of repair, critical hope, and world-making
● the work of the “political” and “apolitical”
● the nonhuman, the elemental, the geological and/as media
● reflections on actions in and alongside academic spaces
Submission Guidelines
We welcome interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches and contributions 
from early career scholars across various fields. Submissions should 
include:
● Title of the paper, film, artwork, or reflection
● A brief abstract (250-300 words)
● At least five bibliographical references
● Author's name, institutional affiliation, and email address
Please submit your proposals by December 15, 2024, to 
(cargcfellowssymposium /at/ gmail.com). If you have any questions, reach out to 
the same email address. Final decisions by February 1, 2025.
Keynote speech will be given by Dr. Nabil Echchaibi (University of 
Colorado Boulder).

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