[csaa-forum] ICA Oceania Hub

[Sy Taffel]

Apologies for cross-posting…



Colleagues on this mailing list might appreciate knowing that – led by @Mohan
Dutta <M.J.Dutta at massey.ac.nz> – the Oceania hub of the 2025 ICA
(International Communication Association) conference will be held at Massey
University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa-New Zealand from June 12 to 16. It
will allow people in the region to participate in ICA without flying all
the way to Boulder.



Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)

Communication and Media Studies at Massey University

Organizers: Debalina Dutta, Sy Taffel, Sean Phelan, & Mohan Dutta



*Call for Submissions Due Date: March 7, 2025, 11:59 pm NZST*



The Oceania Hub of the International Communication Association (ICA) 2025
conference, hosted at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University in Aotearoa
New Zealand, explores questions surrounding disrupting Communication
Research through *the lens of Te Tiriti and Social Justice*. Drawing on
communication scholarship organized around the various registers of social
justice, the Hub examines the intersections of communication theorizing and
practice, mobilized toward disruptions and consolidation. The hub will be
held in hybrid form, with both in-person and virtual sessions. *Selected
panels, papers, and interventions will be considered for waiver of
conference registration fees.*



We invite disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions and multimedia
communication interventions (video stories, film, performances, art forms,
photographic images, sound productions) from the broader Asia-Pacific,
focusing on the representation of the scholarship of communication practice
from the Islands of the Pacific. The salience of Pacific participation is
constituted around the global sustainability challenges of climate change,
rising water levels, extreme inequality etc. We see the hub as offering an
opening for disrupting what counts as communication scholarship through the
engagement with practices of communication for social change.



The ICA Regional Hub at CARE will comprise a one-day hybrid workshop on
“Connecting theory and practice as disruptions.” The workshop will bring in
scholars from across the Asia-Pacific in both virtual and face-to-face
sessions, focusing on key questions exploring the intersections of theory
and practice in the context of addressing complex global challenges at a
time when reactionary forces are on the rise. Aligned with the ICA 2025
conference theme of “Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research,”
the workshop will center the questions of disruptions from the context of
the Pacific, anchoring the conversations in the struggles for justice
and/or sustainability among others in communities across the Pacific.
Sessions will connect with local organizers and activists in generating
conversations on key questions on decolonizing knowledge. Centering the
principles of Kaupapa Māori and indigenous methods across Asia and the
Pacific, the workshop will explore the role of community as an organizing
space for building knowledge.



The Hub will operate in a *hybrid model,* with face-to-face participation
complementing virtual participation. We welcome *paper or panel submissions*
on the following topics and beyond:

   - The futures of struggles around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
   - Decolonizing communication scholarship
   - Sustainable communicative futures
   - ‘Disruptive innovation’ and social justice
   - AI and/as disruption
   - Disruptive alternatives to corporate platforms and infrastructures
   - Indigenous data sovereignty
   - Internationalization of the culture wars
   - Communication theory and mutant neoliberalism
   - The normalization of reactionary politics
   - Cultures of political resistance
   - Climate justice
   - Communication theory, transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity
   - Media cultures and ecologies
   - Imperialism, geopolitics and multipolarity



We extend a special invitation to postgraduate students, activists and
scholars from the Global South, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and those living with
disabilities.

We invite submissions from the region addressing the theme “Disrupting and
consolidating Communication Research.” The submissions can take the form of
academic papers as well as *multimedia forms beyond the text* such as
photos, audio, video stories, film, performance etc.



Please submit a title and an abstract no longer than 250 words. If you are
submitting a multimedia intervention, please describe the interventions in
the abstract. Please email your submission to Debalina Dutta at
D.Dutta at massey.ac.nz by *March 7, 2025, 11:59 pm NZST.*



For more information on the ICA conference, including information on fees,
see here https://www.icahdq.org/BlankCustom.asp?page=ICA25-theme
<https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icahdq.org%2FBlankCustom.asp%3Fpage%3DICA25-theme&data=05%7C02%7CS.A.Taffel%40massey.ac.nz%7Cbcd3c9d7a1b54150239108dd4f05f1c7%7C388728e1bbd0437898dcf8682e644300%7C0%7C0%7C638753609132734598%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZipbG3vgvGrJn7%2F10gQoFsxANAAjYduQTJ693he9Ox0%3D&reserved=0>


-- 
Dr Sy Taffel
Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre,
Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
Massey University
Palmerston North, Aotearoa-New Zealand
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