Call For Papers

Mass Communication and Transnational Empire:

50 Years of Transformations Since Herbert Schiller

October 31-November 3, 2019

California State University, East Bay

--Submissions accepted until July 20--

The Union for Democratic Communications-Project Censored 2019 conference invites contributions that reflect on the relationships between media, communication, and empire from a variety of perspectives. Contributions may examine these concepts through historical materialist, feminist, critical race, queer, and other critical approaches, and might be situated in interdisciplinary areas such as Latinx Studies, Black Studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies. In particular, we invite contributions that highlight the means and methods for active resistance, democratic communication, and the promotion of social justice. New and established scholars, graduate students, activists, and media creators are encouraged to submit proposals. Please refer to https://bit.ly/2ZsKGjp for proposal submissions.

At this conference, we will ask: In what ways do we still exist in “American empire”? What are its prospects for the future, what alternatives are emerging and in what way? What role do media and communication networks play in solidifying or disrupting these possibilities? What continuities or disjunctures exist in the relations between the state, capital, labor, technology, and ideology? In what ways are the structures and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism (re)produced and experienced within national contexts?

Topics included but not limited to:

Race, class, gender and/or indigeneity
De-colonization
Borderlands
Subaltern publics/communities, counterpublics, intersectional & post-colonial critiques
Subversive political knowledge & oppositional gazes
Debt, precarity and austerity
Transnational capitalist class
Refugees and migrants
Intersectionality, hybridity, articulation
Nomadism, dislocation, ephemerality, ontological hybridity
Slavery, colonialism/post-colonialism and/or the primitive accumulation of capital
Progressive movements, social movements, mass mobilizations and protests
Alt-global visions
Left-state alternatives
State violence
Media reform and communication policy
Neo-fascism
Media literacy and critical media theory
The neoliberal assault on higher education, radical scholars and academic freedom
Radical scholars and academic freedom
Critical communication pedagogy
fake news and propaganda
CNN Effects
Intersections of politics, morality, and communication in the current political climate
Eco media studies

Individual Submissions as well as Panels, Workshops, Working Groups and Roundtables will be considered.

Please visit www.democraticcommunications.org for the complete call and further information.

Please send abstracts and proposals to: https://bit.ly/2ZsKGjp

Deadline: July 20, 2019

PC+UDC@CSUEB

October 31-November 3, 2019

California State University, East Bay

Accommodations in Oakland, CA