Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

We are looking for artists for an upcoming exhibition, “Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity” that will take place at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania from mid-August to mid-November 2024. Please view the detailed CfA: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qN7MIAw_vI3oSjtSH2ws93Ytjglr7Gr-E7ohWyWjpBo/edit =h.7vy1a1g5jnz4 .

We are thrilled to co-sponsor an preconference, "Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies". View details and register at http://bit.ly/3vaegPh .

CARGC is thrilled to announce that film and media scholar Sima Kokotović will join the center this fall as a postdoctoral fellow https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/center-advanced-research-global-communication-welcomes-new-postdoctoral-fellow .

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes New Postdoctoral Fellow News 17 May 2024 The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes New Postdoctoral Fellow Sima Kokotović will join the Annenberg School in the fall. By Eszter Zimanyi, CARGC The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication a...

Next Tuesday (4/30): please join us for a CARGC & C3 Postdoc Colloquium and Q&A with Sandeep Mertia, Matt Parker, Arthur Z. Wang, and Zehra Husain. Learn more and register: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-c3-postdoc-colloquium .

This Wednesday (3/20) at 12:15 pm: we look forward to seeing you at a book talk with Bishnupriya Ghosh for a conversation about her new monograph, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media". Learn more & register at https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-c3-book-talk-bishnupriya-ghosh-uc-santa-barbara .

CARGC & C3 Book Talk: Bishnupriya Ghosh, UC Santa Barbara "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media"

Last week CARGC fellows, faculty, and staff traveled to New Delhi for the pilot of Global Media Cultures Collective Doctoral Institute organized in collaboration with The University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India & University of Hyderabad's Department of Communication. The institute's program included lectures, workshops, local site visits, and a cricket match!

In Two Weeks: please join us on Wednesday 3/20 at 12:15 pm for a book talk with Bishnupriya Ghosh, author of "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media". Learn more & register at https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-c3-book-talk-bishnupriya-ghosh-uc-santa-barbara .

NEXT WEEK: please join us on Thursday 2/22 at 12:15 pm for a book talk with Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, co-author of "Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media". The book was co-written with Sahana Udupa, Professor of Media Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU). Learn more & register at https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-c3-book-talk-ethiraj-gabriel-dattatreyan-nyu .

Tomorrow 2/15 at 6:00-7:30 pm, please join us at Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center for a co-sponsored book talk with 'Coming Out as Dalit' author Yashica Dutt. Learn more and RSVP at https://bit.ly/3HPPqHa .

Caste identity, assertion, resistance: In conversation with 'Coming Out as Dalit' author Yashica Dutt and Ramnarayan Rawat — Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India," Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear “Dalit looking.” Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well.

This Thursday, February 8, at 5 pm, please join CARGC Associate Director Juan Llamas-Rodriguez for a conversation about his new book "Border Tunnels". RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/PMIFEB08 .

Our colleagues from the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA) CAMRA at Penn are accepting submissions for the 12th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF). Learn more and submit by January 31st: http://www.camrapenn.org/ssmf-2024-resurrection-and-necromancy.html .

SSMF 2024: Resurrection and Necromancy CAMRA at Penn

We are delighted to continue our collaboration with the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) this semester! Please save the date for our upcoming events and don't miss the book talk with Dr. Lin Zhang on Monday, January 22, 5-7pm: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events?center=715 !

Deadline is approaching to apply for a 2024-2025 postdoctoral fellowship at CARGC! Send us your applications by December 1st. Learn how to apply: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/international-call-applications-postdoctoral-fellowship-center-advanced-research-global-5 .

TOMORROW @12:15pm: please join us for a book talk with Joe F. Khalil and Bilge Yesil: “Global Communication and Area Studies: Insights from the Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East”. Learn more & register at https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-c3-book-talk-joe-khalil-northwestern-university-and-bilge-yesil-cuny .

CARGC & C3 Book Talk: Joe F. Khalil, Northwestern Qatar, and Bilge Yesil, CUNY “Global Communication and Area Studies: Insights from the Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East”

NEXT WEEK: please join us on Thursday 11/16 at 12:15pm for a book talk with Joe F. Khalil (Northwestern Qatar) & Bilge Yesil (CUNY). They will share insights from the recently published "Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East." Learn more & register at https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-c3-book-talk-joe-f-khalil-northwestern-qatar-and-bilge-yesil-cuny . We are also thrilled to have Wazhmah Osman, a visiting scholar at CARGC and Annenberg's Center for Media at Risk, join us as a respondent for this talk.

Please join us on Thursday 11/16 at 12:15 pm for a book talk with Joe F. Khalil (Northwestern Qatar) & Bilge Yesil (CUNY) - “Global Communication and Area Studies: Insights from the Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East”. Learn more & register: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-c3-book-talk-joe-f-khalil-northwestern-qatar-and-bilge-yesil-cuny .

CARGC & C3 Book Talk: Joe F. Khalil, Northwestern Qatar, and Bilge Yesil, CUNY “Global Communication and Area Studies: Insights from the Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East”

The CFA for CARGC’s 2024-25 Postdoctoral Fellowship is now live https://bit.ly/49b7IPB ! Come work with us! We’re particularly interested in candidates with expertise in Latin American, Indigenous, Black, and/or environmental media. Please share with your networks - applications due December 1, 2023 .

Earlier this week, we held a two-day symposium on the long 1990s in global internet history. Many thanks to the symposium organizers, our amazing speakers, and our audience for making this event a success! Here are some photos from the opening plenary and panels the next day. Photo credit: Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania .

CARGC Symposium, "Turning Points: The Long 1990s in Internet History," will continue TOMORROW! Join us for four panels discussing critical moments that shaped the development of media in various parts of the world. Registration required. Learn more at http://bit.ly/3rVn4af .

TODAY! CARGC Symposium, "Turning Points: The Long 1990s in Internet History," begins with a plenary, " Belatedly Global Internet Histories," at 4 PM at Slought! Registration required. To view the symposium program, please visit bit.ly/3rVn4af .

Next Friday, October 20, 5-7 pm: please join us at Annenberg Forum for a reception celebrating the "Geographies of Digital Wasting" exhibit! On view: October 16-25 at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Please join us on October 16 & 17 for a CARGC Symposium, "Turning Points: The Long 1990s in Internet History". This is a satellite event of the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers . View the symposium program & register: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-symposium-turning-points-long-1990s-internet-history .

We are thrilled to welcome Juan Llamas-Rodriguez as Associate Director of CARGC! We spoke with him about his new appointment and the future he envisions for the center https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/juan-llamas-rodriguez-named-associate-director-cargc .

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez Named Associate Director of CARGC Faculty News 22 Sep 2023 Juan Llamas-Rodriguez Named Associate Director of CARGC Llamas-Rodriguez will help develop one of the center’s core research themes, "Mobile Borders: Media, Migration & Diasporas." By Eszter Zimanyi, CARGC The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at...

We are thrilled to collaborate with the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) on a co-sponsored event series, "Identity at the Limits of Representation". Save the date & register for our events this fall https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events !

Here are a few pictures from our last week's summer retreat! New & returning fellows spent a day discussing plans for events and season 2 of CARGC's Global Media & Communication podcast. Photo credit: Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

To welcome new postdocs Zehra Husain, Jingyi Gu, and Mohammed Rashid to Annenberg, our current fellow Prateeksh*t "Kanu" Pandey and CARGC Senior Research Manager Eszter Zimanyi took them on a fabulous tour of the school. See the highlights from our recording booth and the cozy Annenberg library in the photos below!

Last week, CARGC hosted a Summer Residency program for early career & precariously employed scholars in the region. We were so lucky to have Annemarie Iddins, Madhavi Reddi, Tilottama Karlekar, Youngrim Kim, and CARGC alumni Celeste Wagner and Fernanda Rosa with us for a full week! Celebrating Celeste's birthday made it even more special🎂

New Episode Alert: in the 10th episode of CARGC Global Media & Communication Podcast, CARGC Senior Research Manager Jing Wang interviews University of New Hampshire Associate Professor Lin Zhang about her book, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia University Press, 2023). Listen to the episode at https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-labor-of-reinvention .

This is Jing's farewell episode before she heads off to University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Jing has been a co-producer & editor for the Global Media & Communication podcast series and CARGC is endlessly thankful for her invaluable work in developing this project.

Podcast | Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in… Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)

In the latest episode of Global Media & Communication Podcast, CARGC Doctoral Fellow Lucila Rozas interviews The University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor Mary Beltrán about her book, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022). Listen to this episode at https://newbooksnetwork.com/latino-tv !

Podcast | Mary Beltrán, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022) Mary Beltrán, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)

The most recent addition to the CARGC library: "Digital Energetics" (University of Minnesota Press 2023) co-authored by CARGC Dcotoral Fellow Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Anne Pasek, Cindy Lin, and Jordan Kinder https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/digital-energetics .