Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC)

Join us at Public Trust on Sunday, August 3 for an artist plenary from 6-7:30pm for "Non-Aligned Visions," a multimedia installation about contemporary artistic explorations of transnational solidarities from the 1960s and 1970s. Learn more at bit.ly/non-aligned.

Save the date! "Non-Aligned Visions" installation opens on August 3 at Public Trust. Join us from 6–7:30 PM for an artist plenary featuring Carmen Amengual, Essa Grayeb, Suneil Sanzgiri & Sanaz Sohrabi, moderated by Sima Kokotović & Eszter Zimanyi. For more details, visit bit.ly/non-aligned.

Looking fwd to this @annenbergcargc.bsky.social preconference

There is still time to register for the ICA 2025 Preconference, "Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization." View program and register at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

To view the preconference program, please visit www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

International Communication Association With the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the 1960s, newly independent nations from across the Global South sought to generate channels and protocols for international collaboration that would bypass centuries-old colonial extractive dynamics. What began as a political project of high level diplomacy soon expanded into an ethos that inspired and guided numerous initiatives in the fields of scientific research, cultural production, architecture, and so on. In short, the Non-Aligned Movement was a major disruptor of the political, economic, and cultural status quo of the mid-20th century, and media and communication practices were key to this disruption. Projects like New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), Broadcasting Organization on Non-Aligned Countries (BONAC), and Non-Aligned News Agency Pool (NANAP) aimed to reconfigure the international arena of communication, from reimagining networks and technology exchange to forging new collaborative practices in order to respond to unique and shifting on-the-ground situations of decolonizing countries in the Global South. These projects troubled and challenged established logics of the existing institutional apparatuses and research paradigms they relied on. However, the histories of these disruptions have mostly remained unwritten or been forgotten by contemporary scholarship. This preconference aims to examine the conceptual implications and epistemic challenges that NAM disruptions continue to pose for media and communication research. How do we account for the varied projects that were simultaneously initiated in and carried out from locations such as India, Iraq, Algiers and Cuba? How does such a fundamentally transnational character of collaborative initiatives expand our grasp of global media histories? What do we make of institutional collaborations that unsettle our understandings of top-down and bottom-up activities? How should we frame the persistence of racial logics that NAM actors faced in the realm of international media governance? And how do NAM's failures, alongside the simultaneous persistence of its legacies, trouble existing conceptions of media temporalities? We will bring together scholars who are tackling these questions in their research to provide a greater depth and geographical scope to media and communication studies' understanding of the long history of global connectivity. By centering historical projects of media decolonization, we also aim to advance the field's contemporary efforts to decolonize knowledge production. This ICA preconference continues from two previous preconferences held in Toronto and Australia respectively: "Media and Communication Studies in Global Contexts: A Critical History" and "Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies."

The deadline to register for the ICA 2025 Preconference, "Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization," has been extended until May 30. Please register via www.icahdq.org/event/Decolo....

super excited to be a part of this ICA preconference: Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization @annenbergcargc.bsky.social @aswinp.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Logo for the Global Media and Communication podcast distributed by New Books Network in an off-white background set on top of a lined sheet of paper with pieces of written notes strewn about.

New episodes of the @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Global Media and Communication podcast out this month featuring research from two brilliant Mexican scholars!

Annenberg Postdoctoral Fellows Share Research Across Disciplines

Check out this article about the recent Postdoctoral Fellows Colloquium, in which Annenberg postdocs came together to present their work and participate in interdisciplinary discussions moderated by fellow researchers www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... .

This Wednesday (3/26), please join CARGC Associate Director Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social for a screening of Y Tu Mamá También and the release of his book on the film clals.sas.upenn.edu/events/juan-....

CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture

Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social

Save the date and register for the 2025 CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference, "Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies!" View the program and register at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

Postdoctoral Fellows Colloquium is happening tomorrow! Please join us from 9:30 am - 6 pm at the Annenberg School or on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/4jkYBkj.

Next Friday, February 28: join us for a day-long Postdoctoral Fellows Colloquium bit.ly/4jkYBkj! Co-organized by @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, @miccenter.bsky.social, @cdcspenn.bsky.social, and @ascmediarisk.org, the colloquium will feature presentations by Annenberg postdocs followed by a Q&A.

Powerful artwork representing independent media and the Dalit Panthers movement.

Don't miss our art exhibit opening tomorrow at 4.30pm! With artists Chelsey Luster, @bhumikasaraswati.bsky.social & Shrujana Shridhar @asc.upenn.edu @annenbergcargc.bsky.social @bzelizer.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/4aEzGnU Image credit: "Dalit Panthers" by Shrujana Shridhar

Please join us tomorrow, 5:30-8:00 pm, for a screening of the documentary film Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) and Q&A with Director Lina Soualem. Register via www.eventbrite.com/e/bye-bye-ti....

A promotional flyer for 'Navigating Precarity: Artists on Gender, Race, and Caste,' an art exhibit, reception, and panel discussion. The background features a close-up photograph of hexagonal metal bolts with varying levels of rust and wear. The event details are displayed in bold navy blue text over a semi-transparent white overlay: 'Wednesday, February 19th, ASC Room 500, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.' Logos of supporting organizations, including the Center for Media @ Risk, the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), the Department of South Asia Studies, and the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), are positioned at the bottom of the flyer

Join us on February 19th for "Navigating Precarity," a panel discussion with artists Chelsey Luster, Bhumika Saraswati and Shrujana Shridhar @asc.upenn.edu @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/4aEzGnU

On February 18, 5:30-8:00 pm, please join us for a screening of the documentary film Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) and Q&A with Director Lina Soualem. For more details please visit www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

CARGC is thrilled to co-sponsor the 2025 ICA Pre-Conference in Media and Communication and Global Latinidades. The deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2025. To learn more and apply, please visit tinyurl.com/icapreconf25.

* Correction: the title of Aaron Hyzen's presentation will be "Algorithms and Agency: Epistemic Welfare for the Digital Public Sphere."

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three Visiting Scholars for Spring 2025

CARGC is pleased to announce Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anis Rahman (University of Washington), and Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster) will join the center as visiting scholars this spring. Read more about their research at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

Save the date for a day-long Postdoctoral Fellows Colloquium on Friday, February 28: bit.ly/4jkYBkj! Co-organized by @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, @mic-center.bsky.social, @cdcspenn.bsky.social, and @ascmediarisk.org, the colloquium will feature presentations by Annenberg postdocs followed by a Q&A.

International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

✨ Two-year postdoc opportunity ✨

Please spread word about our postdoc at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social.

We are particularly interested in candidates whose work connects media industries, the production and circulation of popular cultural forms, and novel expressions of citizenship.

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication @annenbergcargc.bsky.social at @asc.upenn.edu invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. We are esp. interested in candidates whose work connects media industries, popular culture, and citizenship. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

@annenbergcargc.bsky.social is looking for a 2025-2026 postdoc. Applications are due by February 1, 2025:

The CFA for 2025-2026 CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open: bit.ly/cargcpostdoc2025 ! Please share with your networks and send us applications by February 1, 2025.

There are still a few days left to submit proposals for the "Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization" ICA 2025 Preconference. Abstracts are due on December 15, 2024

Deadline for submissions is approaching. Please submit your proposals by December 15, 2024 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... !

We are accepting proposals for the ICA 2025 Preconference, "Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization," that will take place on June 12, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. Please send us your abstracts by December 15, 2024 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... .