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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear CSAA colleagues</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We are pleased to announce speakers for the symposium ‘Beyond Media Diversity: Media Practice and Media Studies in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter’ hosted by the Media Futures Hub at UNSW
on Thursday 27 June</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">There is no charge to attend, but registration is essential to secure a place:
</span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxaSme8D5xVqqUKMq00aoadCnSYnOeBeuipMiYfedhtAxjMw/viewform" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#467886">Beyond
Media Diversity - Registration (google.com)</span></span></a></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">.</span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Full details below</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All the best</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sukhmani Khorana</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> and Tanja Dreher</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Beyond Media Diversity: Media Practice and Media Studies in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter </span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Date and time - 27 June 2024 | 09h00 - 17h00</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location - University of New South Wales, Kensington Campus, Sydney, Australia</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">An IAMCR pre-conference and ‘bridge’ event between ICA 2024 and IAMCR 2024</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="https://iamcr.org/christchurch2024/beyond-media-diversity-conf" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#467886">https://iamcr.org/christchurch2024/beyond-media-diversity-conf</span></span></a><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#467886"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Organisers - A/Prof Tanja Dreher, University of New South Wales and A/Prof Sukhmani Khorana, University of New South Wales</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">REGISTRATION:
</span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxaSme8D5xVqqUKMq00aoadCnSYnOeBeuipMiYfedhtAxjMw/viewform" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#467886">Beyond
Media Diversity - Registration (google.com)</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> There is no charge to attend, but registration is essential to secure a place. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">SPEAKERS:
</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">This full day symposium
</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">will feature<b>
</b>presentations and provocations by invited speakers, including: </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah (Macquarie), Tito Ambyo (RMIT), A/Prof
</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Debbie Bargallie (Griffith),</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">
Prof Gerard Goggin (WSU), Dr Ashleigh Haw (RMIT), A/Prof Eve Ng (Ohio, online), </span>
</span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Macquarie),</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">
Prof Anamik Saha (Leeds, online), Dr </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Victor Zhuang (Nanyang) and further speakers to be confirmed.</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Recent years have seen various and continuing ‘media reckonings’ on racism and diversity. The resurgence of #BlackLivesMatter protests across the globe in in 2020 brought
renewed attention to media racism in Australia and across the Global North. Resurgent Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic and entrenched and violent Islamophobia highlighted again by the 2019 massacre in Christchurch,
Aotearoa/New Zealand, have heightened ‘media diversity debates’ and calls to decolonise media and/or support media anti-racism (Saha, 2020; Titley, 2019). Meanwhile international interventions in media scholarship such as #communicationsowhite have demonstrated
that concerns around media, racism and diversity are highly relevant within media and communication
<i>studies</i> as well as in media <i>institutions</i> (Chakravarty et al 2018, Ng et al 2020). </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Despite the upsurge in media diversity debates and initiatives in response to these cultural reckonings, the aim of greater diversity has been premised on limiting assumptions.
One of the most oft-used ones is that media and those who work in it must ‘reflect’ the demographics of the changing nation state. The media reckoning prompted by Indigenous media presenter Stan Grant’s resignation from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
in 2023 followed decades of diversity initiatives at the public broadcasters. Christine Dunbar-Hester argues, ‘“diversity” is a timid framing. What would change if the conversation was directed towards justice instead? Much is at stake here and “diversity”
offers too little’ (2021). </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">This pre-conference event takes a transnational approach to framing diversity debates in the media, how these are limiting (and limited), and what decolonial
and anti-colonial alternatives could look like. The event thus speaks directly to the IAMCR2024 General theme: ‘<i>Whiria te tāngata / Weaving people together:
</i>Communicative projects of decolonising, engaging, and listening’</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Outcomes:</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> participants will be invited
to submit proposals for a possible journal special issue on transnational perspectives on framing diversity in the media and moving toward decolonial approaches</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Location:</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> The preconference will
be held at the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. The Kensington campus is well connected to Sydney Central station (15 mins by Light Rail) and to Sydney airport (a gateway airport for IAMCR 2024 and ICA 2024).
There are many affordable accommodation options nearby. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Media Futures Hub</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">
(</span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"><a href="https://mediafutureshub.org/" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#467886">https://mediafutureshub.org/</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">)
is a collection of scholars at UNSW researching justice, media and emerging technologies. We explore topics such as community and First Nations media, drones and autonomous systems, data justice, listening across difference, everyday uses of media technology,
and new research methods. Our research is interventionist, innovative and fearless. Our aim is not only to analyse the world around us, but to help build more just futures.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Tanja Dreher</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">
is Associate Professor in Media and a Co-Director of the Media Futures Hub at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Tanja is a former Vice Chair of the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section of IAMCR. Tanja’s research examines
media and social justice through the lens of the politics of listening in the context of settler colonialism, Indigenous sovereignties, intersectionality and data justice. She is particularly interested in self-determined media interventions and grassroots
infrastructures of accountability and care. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">Sukhmani Khorana</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A">
is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, School of the Arts and Media. She is interested in media, migration and affect and her research focuses on multi-platform refugee narratives, the politics of food, the role
of emotions in social change, cultural diversity in media and culture, and self-representation by young people of colour. Through her research, Sukhmani aims to create broader awareness about the lives of asylum seekers and refugees and contribute to the
capacity-building of disadvantaged migrant communities.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00000A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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