<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Apologies for cross-posting…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Colleagues on this mailing list might
appreciate knowing that – led by <a href="mailto:M.J.Dutta@massey.ac.nz" style="color:blue"><span style="background:rgb(225,223,221)">@Mohan Dutta</span></a> – 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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Center
for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Communication
and Media Studies at Massey University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Organizers:
Debalina Dutta, Sy Taffel, Sean Phelan, & Mohan Dutta</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Call
for Submissions Due Date: March 7, 2025, 11:59 pm NZST</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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 <b>the lens of Te Tiriti and Social Justice</b>. 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. <b>Selected panels,
papers, and interventions will be considered for waiver of conference
registration fees.</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The
Hub will operate in a <b>hybrid model,</b> with face-to-face participation
complementing virtual participation. We welcome <b>paper or panel submissions</b>
on the following topics and beyond:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The futures of struggles around diversity,
equity, and inclusion (DEI)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Decolonizing communication scholarship</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Sustainable communicative futures</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">‘Disruptive innovation’ and social justice</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">AI and/as disruption</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Disruptive alternatives to corporate platforms
and infrastructures</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Indigenous data sovereignty</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Internationalization of the culture wars</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Communication theory and mutant neoliberalism</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The normalization of reactionary politics</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Cultures of political resistance</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Climate justice</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Communication theory, transdisciplinarity and
interdisciplinarity</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Media cultures and ecologies</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Imperialism, geopolitics and multipolarity</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">We
extend a special invitation to postgraduate students, activists and scholars
from the Global South, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and those living with disabilities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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 <b>multimedia forms beyond the text</b> such as
photos, audio, video stories, film, performance etc.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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 <a href="mailto:D.Dutta@massey.ac.nz" style="color:blue">D.Dutta@massey.ac.nz</a> by <b>March 7,
2025, 11:59 pm NZST.</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">For more information on the ICA conference,
including information on fees, see here <a href="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" style="color:blue">https://www.icahdq.org/BlankCustom.asp?page=ICA25-theme</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dr Sy Taffel<div>Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre, </div><div>Senior Lecturer in Media Studies</div><div>Massey University</div><div>Palmerston North, Aotearoa-New Zealand</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>