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</style><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We are a group of disability studies scholars who have been active at the International Communication Association (ICA). We are hoping to organize various panels around disability, communication, and media for the ICA 2025 conference, which will be held at Denver 12-16 June 2025. The main theme of the 2025 conference is <i>Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research</i>. For more information on the conference and the theme, see, </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica25-theme"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica25-theme</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">More broadly, we hope to galvanize interest in disability, communication, and media at ICA. We are planning to submit various panels to divisions/interest groups at ICA and have tentatively invited disability scholars to chair them. This is part of a larger move to organize and center disability at ICA.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">We welcome submissions from postgraduates, early-career, emerging, and established scholars, activists or practitioners that:</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Take on a critical disability studies lens, one which centers disability as generative form of knowledge and/or identity.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Submissions should consider both the specific ICA division/interest group’s call and the main conference theme of disruption.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">See below for more details on the various ICA divisions/IG targeted (and requirements)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"><br>Do consider sending in a submission for consideration by 11 October 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) to </span><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: black;"><a href="mailto:icadisability@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">icadisability@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Please also note the following: </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Your submission should indicate the specific CFP that you are interested in.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We need to balance diversity in the panels (as defined by ICA), so please do indicate any relevant information in your author bios. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We envision these panels to be hybrid and accessible, so remote participants who cannot make it onsite can also participate. Please also let us know your preferred mode of participation in your submission. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We will endeavor to get back to you regarding participation as soon as possible after the deadline. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We are also happy to discuss ideas so feel free to reach out. </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Any questions should be directed to </span><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: black;"><a href="mailto:icadisability@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">icadisability@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Roboto; color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-left: 2pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">CFP 1: Disability and Activism, Communication, and Social Justice</span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proposed Panel Chair: Abdul Rohman (RMIT Vietnam)<br><br></span><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">In this panel, we are keen to consider how disability and its activisms (especially digital forms across various media) offer means to disrupt communication and advance social/disability justice.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">If interested, pls submit a</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title and 150-word abstract for your paper</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">100-word bio for each author</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ACSJ_CFP"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ACSJ_CFP</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">CFP 2: Disability and Children, Adolescents, and the Media</span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proposed Panel Chair: Meryl Alper (Northeastern University)</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">In this panel, we are keen to explore all media and technologies aimed at and/or used by young people (generally birth through late teens), as well as the contextual issues surrounding this selection and use, especially as it pertains to disability and disruption.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title and 150-word abstract for your paper</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">100-word bio for each author</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAM_CFP"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAM_CFP</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">CFP 3: Disability and Health Communication</span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proposed Panel Chair: Katie Ellis (Curtin University)</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">In this panel we are keen to explore questions of disability across various aspects of health communications, especially in questions of disrupting questions of health communications across society.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title and 150-word abstract</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">100-word bio for each author</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HEALTH_CFP"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HEALTH_CFP</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">CFP 4: Disability, Communication and Technology</span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proposed Panel Chair: Kuansong Victor ZHUANG (Nanyang Technological University)</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">In this panel we are keen to explore how new and emergent infocomms technologies, especially its adoption, use, applications, and effects, disrupt existing ways of knowing and understanding disability.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Note that submissions to CAT should focus on an understanding of ICTs, with a focus on the technology itself within the context of <i>human </i>communication</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title and a 75-word abstract </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">100-word bio for each author</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAT_CFP"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CAT_CFP</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">CFP 5: Disability and Philosophy, Theory and Critique</span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proposed Panel Chair: Remi M. Yergeau (U of Michigan)</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">In this panel, we are keen to consider how crip theory can offer a lens to think critically about communication and media.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title and 350-word (max) abstract</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">100-word bio for each author</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PTC_CFP"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PTC_CFP</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">CFP 6: Disability and Popular Media and Culture</span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proposed Panel Chair: Beth Haller (Towson U)</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">In this panel we are keen to consider disability and disruption within the domain of popular media culture.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title and 150-word abstract</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">100-word bio for each author</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PMC_CFP"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PMC_CFP</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">CFP 7: Disability and Media Industries</span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proposed Panel Chair: Elizabeth Ellcessor (U of Virginia)</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">In this panel, we are keen to explore questions of disability (and also disruptions) especially as it pertains to the critical study of the history, organization, structure, economics, management, and socio-cultural impact of media industries, engaging with research related to multimodal industrial aspects of media – including, but not limited to: film, television, digital media, social media, radio, music, podcasts, publishing, news, media infrastructures, electronic games, livestreaming, and mobile audio-visualities. </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title and 150-word abstract </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">100-word bio for each author</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/MIS_CFP"><span style="color: rgb(41, 98, 255); text-decoration: none;">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/MIS_CFP</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">ICA 2025 Theme: Disruption</span></u></b><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 18pt; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Addressing ICA’s 75th anniversary, the 2025 conference theme is an invitation to critically reflect on communication studies as a discipline and ICA as an agent and site of disciplinary development. Theme sessions will take stock of our past, critically review present developments, and chart out future avenues for communication research. We particularly welcome contributions speaking to three important aspects of the theme: communication scholarship as a transformative and stabilizing force in society, as a research practice that can be both revolutionary and consolidating, and communication studies as a disrupted and resilient discipline. In all these contexts, elements of disruption and consolidation are not necessarily antithetical but may productively be framed as a dialectical relationship.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 18pt; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">ICA has made significant strides in amplifying the visibility of communication scholarship beyond academia. From democratic backsliding to climate change and conflict transformation, our discipline is poised to provide relevant answers to many burning questions of our time. Through public scholarship, communication scholars can make themselves useful by addressing the problems of the world’s current polycrisis. They may act as a transformative voice in society (by advocating social change) and as a stabilizing force (by maintaining democracy or social justice). A key issue in this context is the sometimes troubled relationship between scholarship and advocacy.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 18pt; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">The public impact of scholarship is typically connected to a discipline’s ability to generate original knowledge. During the past 75 years, communication research has exponentially grown in terms of quantity. However, across a variety of disciplines and academic fields, such expansion is mostly attributed to the growth in studies that consolidate existing knowledge, pushing aside disruptive and revolutionary scholarship that forges new directions and breaks existing paradigms. The progressive fragmentation of the discipline may have contributed to this trend, along with persisting social and global inequalities in academia as well as a publication and review culture that ntends to disadvantage certain types of research and scholarly communities, including those from the Global South.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 18pt; background: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Communication research is facing these issues while itself being disrupted on multiple fronts and, perhaps, with unprecedented consequences. AI-based technologies have started revolutionizing scholarly practice with vast implications for the way we conduct and evaluate scholarship. In addition to high levels of insecurity and precarity, researchers face growing demands to publish in prestigious venues, obtain large grants, and participate in reviewing and evaluations, all putting heavy mental strain on scholars. Through this call, we encourage the discipline to think about possible ways to consolidate our research environment by growing resilience and developing effective coping strategies.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p></body></html>