Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Please join us next Thursday for a virtual CARGC colloquium featuring Seyram Avle, China, Africa, and the Shifting Worlds of Tech Labor, and save the dates for our remaining #CARGC2021 fall events! https://cargc.asc.upenn.edu//cargc-colloquium-seyram-avle/

CALL FOR PROPOSALS No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics Biennial Early Career Conference... April 8 and 9, 2021 Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania On suddenly sparse streets, artists confront the grim reality of the moment. With a nod to the anti-globalization movement or the music notes seemingly playing off the guest that has overstayed its welcome, both messages diagnose the ailment and gesture toward a hope for and belief in change. In a moment shaped by closures of borders, stores, schools, offices, jobs, and, for many, a dream of going back to normal what openings are made possible? The second biennial early career conference by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania asks: What are post-pandemic politics? We understand post-pandemic, not as a myopic focus on COVID-19, but rather as an optic illuminating both persistent and emergent conditions of inequity and precarity. We also use post-pandemic as an opportunity to imagine new forms of politics, community, solidarity, and action. We invite early career scholars, activists, artists, and journalists to reflect on the crucial role of communication in this moment of rupture and offer the following questions as a provocation for participants: What can the critical study of global communication in all its expansiveness and imaginative force offer us in a moment when uncertainty, insecurity, and risk have saturated hegemonic imaginations of the global? How might these times, which have both exacerbated and highlighted marginalization and oppression across global Norths and Souths and along lines of race, class, gender, and other axes of identity, move us towards justice and anti-oppression? What other ways of coming together, collective action, and organizing have been brought to the forefront of dominant imaginations, and what ways of being and living remain possible outside their ambit? View more details: https://bit.ly/2Vh2Tjo Deadline: September 30, 2020

CARGC is thrilled to announce the appointment of two postdoctoral fellows for 2020-2022. Please join us in welcoming Jinsook Kim and Hana Masri to the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania! Kim and Masri emerged out of an extremely competitive pool of early career scholars from around the globe to join us as our new 2020-2022 Postdoctoral fellows. CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients are determined by an independent selection committee following rigorous criteria that include overall academic excellence, research productivity and promise, diversity, and fit with CARGC’s mission of enabling and promoting truly translocal research grounded in theory and based on primary source research. Read more here: https://bit.ly/2KCnAAF

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication is proud to present CARGC Paper 13, Toward a Cultural Framework of Internet Governance: Russia’s Great Power Identity and the Quest for a Multipolar Digital Order, by CARGC Postdoctoral Fellow Stanislav Budnitsky. Initially delivered as a CARGC Colloquium in 2018, and part of Budnitsky’s larger research project on the relationship between nationalism and global internet govern...ance, CARGC Paper 13 considers the cultural logics underlying Russia’s global internet governance agenda. It argues that to understand Russia’s digital vision in the early twenty-first century and, by extension, the dynamics of global internet politics writ large, scholars must incorporate Russia’s historic self-identification as a great power into their analyses. Read more & download here: https://bit.ly/2RHt0hA

CARGC Press Co-Publishes Special Section on Mediating Islamic State with International Journal of Communication Originally presented at the Third Biennial Symposium of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, contributions tackle popular culture as a dynamic context for meaning creation, within a framework of media and culture as formative of identity and community, and not merely... as conveyors of ideas, images, and information. Grounded in CARGC’s mission to advance a global media studies that fuses multidisciplinary regional knowledge with theory and methodology in the humanities and social sciences, we hope this special section continues spurring critical conversations that promise a new understanding of the transnational nexus of communication, identity, and violence. Together, these articles suggest imaginative avenues to understand phenomena like Islamic State beyond the narrow lens of what communication scholars would call administrative research within a national security paradigm. Read more: http://bit.ly/3cLtegM

Save the dates for our #CARGC1920 spring event lineup! http://bit.ly/35w8Xrt

At a recent workshop, scholars from around the globe assembled to discuss notions of digital sovereignty at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC).

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Postdoctoral Fellowship Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Deadline: February 1, 2020... Details: http://bit.ly/cargc2020postdoc

What does WhatsApp have to do with the mass protests currently happening in Lebanon? And what can be learned from examining other recent protest movements impacted by the telecom industry? CARGC Faculty Fellow Hatim El-Hibri and Research Director Clovis Bergère consider these questions and more in a new article in Jadaliyya.

The University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Program for Comparative Literature and The...ory, Department of South Asia Studies, The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania are pleased to invite submissions to our 2020 graduate student conference, Troubling Translation, to be held on February 21 and 22, 2020 in Philadelphia, PA. We invite graduate students at any level to submit abstracts for consideration. The submission form can be found at https://tinyurl.com/PennTT2020 We would appreciate it if you would circulate this CFP to the students in your department and colleagues to whom this may be of interest. Questions may be directed to: [email protected]

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Troubling Translation(s)," a conference organized by an interdisciplinary group of students from the University of Pennsylvania and scheduled for February 21-22, 2020. The committee welcomes abstracts which consider translation as concept, practice, and method as they relate to forms, bodies, languages, media, the visual and performing arts, and religions, to name but a few disciplinary categories. Abstracts are due November 4th, 2019 and full papers on February 7th, 2020. Details: https://www.asc.upenn.edu//call-papers-troubling-translati The conference is co-sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Program for Comparative Literature and Theory, Department of South Asia Studies, Department of Religious Studies, and South Asia Center.

Tonight! The 2019 CARGC Distinguished Lecture in Global Communication, Secrets Without Agents: From Big Brother to Big Data, featuring Anikó Imre, co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania Department of Russian and East European Studies at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania http://bit.ly/2YrJIX7

Please join us in two weeks for our first event of #CARGC1920, a book talk with Sean Jacobs (The New School) for Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization, co-sponsored by Africana Studies at Penn at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania http://bit.ly/31TabeZ.

China is often seen as a dark, ideological monolith by outsiders. But Chinese society, and in particular China’s communication sphere, is dynamic, multi-faceted..., and filled with contradictions. These contradictions like the fusion of free market ideals and a one-party state fascinate Maria Repnikova, a former postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. Read more about Repnikova's research in our newest profile: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-//many-contradictions-china (: Macro Polo)