[Commlist] CfP Frames of Reference: Nostalgia Symposium 2026

CfP Frames of Reference: Nostalgia Symposium 2026

*About*
The NOSTAGAIN Network is a research collective exploring the
generative potentials of nostalgia. We are launching our interdisciplinary
symposium on February 13, 2025 -- "Frames of Reference" -- at
Concordia University, Montreal.


*Symposium Theme*
Nostalgia can be understood from multiple dimensions. Beyond 'the past',
we use emotions, material objects, their senses, nonhumans, food,
and music as a *frame of reference* to justify why something is 'nostalgic'.

Longing for a certain pasts (e.g., rose-tinted or before one's time) may
also indicate our desires for the present. Being nostalgic for 'lost 
futures'
is a *frame of reference* we can use towards utopian / collective goals.

Anemoia, a nostalgia for a time you never lived through... what are its
*frames of references*? Why do we yearn and long for things, at all?

We are inviting media and communication scholars *and* artists to explore
what 'frames of references' mean, and can do, in relation to nostalgia. 
Your works can be presented, exhibited, or performed.


*Submission Guidlines*
Our full CfP is available at: https://nostagain.ca/cfp2026/ 
<https://nostagain.ca/cfp2026/>

Paper Presentations Abstract      19 December 2025
Research Creation Projects         19 December 2025

(Abstracts are 300 words + 5 keywords)

Email Notifications                        Early January
Symposium Date                          13 February 2026


*Contact*
Please write to (nostagain /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(nostagain /at/ gmail.com)>
and direct it to Richy Srirachanikorn
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