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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">&nbsp;CALL FOR PAPERS:&nbsp; The Politics
 of Listening</span></b></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">29 – 30 November 2018, Sydney</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Convened by Tanja Dreher (UNSW)
 and Poppy de Souza (Griffith University)</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Keynote speakers: Professor
 Megan Davis (University of New South Wales) and Associate Professor Leah Bassel (University of Leicester)</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Abstracts due: 30 June</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Inspired by the recent ‘turn
 to listening’ </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US">media studies, cultural studies and political theory, this two-day interdisciplinary symposium brings
 together scholars whose work engages with listening: as a political practice; as a critical frame; as an alternative politics; as a contribution to justice and/or as an ethics of relation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">As recent calls for a constitutionally
 enshrined First Nations Voice to the Australian Parliament remind us, the ‘right to be heard’ and calls to listen
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">are central to</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
 addressing ongoing injustice and inequalities. &nbsp;The digital media environment offers proliferating opportunities for ‘voice’ and sharing stories, yet the attention economy works against the promise that previously marginalised voices will be heard. While politicians
 regularly embark on ‘listening tours’, public trust in processes of consultation and representation is minimal. The fundamental principle of disability activism – ‘nothing about us without us’ – demands that voices of disability be heard. Yet too often calls
 to listen </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">are ignored or refused.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Responding to these timely
 concerns, we invite critical contributions that engage with the politics of listening across a range of contexts and issues. &nbsp;We particularly welcome papers and panel proposals that address:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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<b><span style="font-size:
     10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
     mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
     EN-US">Critical theories of listening:</span></b><span style="font-size:
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     EN-US">
 including theorising beyond liberalism, listening as a feminist politics, listening and agency, listening as labour, listening and justice (media justice, climate justice, acoustic justice etc), rethinking eavesdropping</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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<b><span style="font-size:
     10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
     mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
     EN-US">Listening and settler colonialism:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
     &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:
     EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">including First Nations voice and the right
 to be heard, Indigenous sovereignties, First Nations epistemologies of listening, listening and refusal, listening and decolonising methodologies, listening as solidarity</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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<b><span style="font-size:
     10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
     mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
     EN-US">Listening and the politics of difference:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
     &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:
     EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">including racism and anti-racism, ableism and
 disability, multiculturalism, counter and activist listening</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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<b><span style="font-size:
     10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
     mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
     EN-US">Listening interventions:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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 in art and activism, media, democracy, the politics of voice and representation, economies of attention</span></li></ul>
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&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Pushing
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">beyond liberal celebrations of voice and speech, attention to listening has
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">foregrounded
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">a
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">commitment to responsibility, responsiveness, vulnerability and openness.&nbsp; Critical scholarship
 in this area has done important work to </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">shift
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">responsibility for change from marginalised voices onto the
</span><span style="font-size:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">institutions, practices and norms
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-GB">that
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US">condition who is heard, on whose terms, and to what effect</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">.&nbsp;
 Scholars also draw attention to the difficult work of listening, its </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">potential to unsettle, and its
 crucial role in disrupting the uneven flows of </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">power and privilege invested in
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US">unjust social and political arrangements</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">.
 This symposium will foreground the politics of listening as a vital intervention in contemporary scholarship, activism and practice.
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In addition to academic paper
 and panel proposals, we are interested in hearing from practitioners, activists and artists interested in proposing non-traditional forms or formats that respond to the above themes.
</span><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Please get in touch with symposium conveners Tanja Dreher on
<a href="mailto:t.dreher@unsw.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">t.dreher@unsw.edu.au</span></a> or Poppy de Souza on
<a href="mailto:poppy.desouza@griffith.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">poppy.desouza@griffith.edu.au</span></a> prior to the submission date to discuss.</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The program will feature confirmed
 keynote speakers Megan Davis (UNSW) and Leah Bassel (Leicester). Professor Davis is an author of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Uluru Statement from the Heart</i>, Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales. Dr Bassel’s most recent book is
<i>The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and challenges of democratic life </i>
(Palgrave, 2017).</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">&nbsp;is
 an ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor in Media at the University of New South Wales.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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 research focuses on the politics of listening in the context of media and multiculturalism, Indigenous sovereignties, feminisms and anti-racism.
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 activist media.&nbsp; <br>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dr Poppy de Souza</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
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 Adjunct Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. Her&nbsp;scholarship critically engages with the ethics and politics of voice and listening in the context of changing media technologies, everyday&nbsp;cultural
 production, representational politics and political transformation, with a focus on sites of struggle, resistance and&nbsp;innovation. &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt">ARC Future Fellow / Scientia Fellow / Associate Professor</span></p>
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