CFP - Popular Culture and Coloniality: Decolonizing Global Media and Communication March 28, 2019 | Philadelphia, USA

 Dear all -

We are currently accepting abstracts for the Biennial CARGC(Center for
Advanced Research in Global Communication) Fellows Led Conference in
Philadelphia, PA at the Annenberg School for Communication. We hope to see
you there!

CFP is below and also linked: https://cargcsouthbysoutheast.com/

Abstract deadline is 9/15/2018

Over the past three decades, intellectual energy in global media studies
has worked to decolonize the field. Building on these legacies and others
across the humanities and social sciences, the inaugural CARGC-fellows
biennial conference seeks to examine the relationship between popular
culture and coloniality. Using popular culture as a avenue through which to
examine global geo-politics and communication, the conference invites
submissions that critically examine affect, power, representation, and
politics in shifting technological landscapes. In doing so, this one-day
conference asks: how can critical, theoretical, and empirical studies of
popular culture push global media studies to further examine the production
of knowledge?

We invite papers that work critically to further decolonize media studies
and unmoor scholarship from sedimentary understandings of place, space,
time, and power beyond determinist discourses like the essentialization of
media and technology. The CARGC symposium solicits scholarship from early
career scholars that:

   - Uses popular culture artifacts such as music, melodrama, digital and
   social media, film, performance, folk culture, television, comics,
   cartoons, street art, print media, memes, comedy, and more to interrogate
   ideas of place, beyond the binaries of local/global, traditional/modern,
   west/rest, and the boundaries and possibilities of comparative research;
   *global* is not simply scholarship outside the hegemonic West; rather an
   orientation.
   - Observes the experiences of audiences alongside the political economy
   of cultural production and consumption in order to analyze power beyond the
   dichotomy of oppression/resistance and pursue instead the generative spaces
   between, outside, next to, or beyond dualisms.
   - Interrogates media and technological platforms as sites of popular
   cultural production, while focusing on claim-making and meaning-making
   processes of active audiences and digital consumers;
   - Imagines political bodies, subjectivities, and affect by seeking out
   and analyzing  representations of underrepresented voices, cultures,
   bodies, and abilities;
   - Explores overlapping histories of the popular and of popular culture
   in order to brush history against the grain;
   - Otherwise uses the production and consumption of popular culture in
   order to rethink the production of knowledge, challenging eurocentrism,
   elitism, and other frameworks of power, offering other ways of knowing.

Interested participants should send abstracts of 250 words
[email protected] by September 15, 2018.


About CARGC:
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg
School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania produces and
promotes scholarly research on global communication and public life. As an
institute for advanced study dedicated to global media studies, we revisit
enduring questions and engage pressing matters in geopolitics and
communication. Our vision of “inclusive globalization” recognizes plurality
and inequality in global media, politics, and culture. Our translocal
approach fuses multidisciplinary regional knowledge with theory and
methodology in the humanities and social sciences. This synthesis of deep
expertise and interdisciplinary inquiry stimulates critical conversations
about entrenched and emerging communicative structures, practices, flows,
and struggles. We explore new ways of understanding and explaining the
world, including public scholarship, algorithmic culture, the arts,
artificial intelligence, multi-modal scholarship, and digital archives.
With a core commitment to the development of early career scholars
worldwide, CARGC hosts postdoctoral, doctoral, undergraduate, and faculty
fellows who collaborate in research groups, author CARGC Press
publications, and organize talks, lectures, symposia, conferences, and
summer institutes.

Thank you!



-- 
Samira Rajabi
Ph.D. | Media Studies, Media Research and Practice
CARGC | Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Post Doc
Fellow
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
@ <[email protected]>srajabi

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