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Keynote Speaker: Audrey Gadzekpo, University of Ghana
Audrey Gadzekpo, Ph.D. is a Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana. She almost 30 years of experience in teaching, research and advocacy on media, gender and governance, and close to 35 years practical experience as a media practitioner. She obtained a doctorate degree in African Studies at the University of Birmingham, U.K., a Master of Arts in Communications from Brigham Young University, Utah, USA and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Ghana.
Her research interests and publications can be clustered around four principal pre-occupations – media, democracy and governance; media and gender; media histories; and media and developmental challenges, which include work on health, conflict, climate change and policy communication.
Aside from teaching mainly journalism and media-related courses, Professor Gadzekpo has considerable experience engaging in media, gender, governance and behavioural change advocacy work. She has been involved in election monitoring, anti-corruption campaigns and initiatives, empowerment of women initiatives, media development projects and initiatives, and health/environmental issues.
Plenary Panel: Honoring the Legacy of Jesús Martín-Barbero
Nick Couldry, London School of Economics
Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and from 2017 has been a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He has also held visiting appointments at MIT, Microsoft Research Lab, New England, University of Technology, Sydney, and at the universities of Pennsylvania, Roskilde, Södertörn, Stockholm, Toulouse, Utrecht, and Western Sydney. He has honorary doctorates from Södertörn University, Sweden, and Tampere University, Finland. He jointly led, with Clemencia Rodriguez, the chapter on media and communications in the 22-chapter 2018 report of the International Panel on Social Progress: www.ipsp.org. He has published more than 150 journal articles and book chapters, and is the author or editor of fifteen books including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage 2010). His latest books are The Costs of Connection (with Ulises Ali Mejias, Stanford UP 2019), Media: Why It Matters (Polity 2019), and Media Voice Space and Power: Essays of Refraction (Routledge 2020). www.nickcouldry.org
Marwan Kraidy, Northwestern University in Qatar
Marwan M. Kraidy is Dean and CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar, founder of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, and the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture at Northwestern University. A Fellow of the International Communication Association, he was the Anthony Shadid Chair, the Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (2013-2020) and Associate Dean for Administration at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Kraidy has been the Edward W. Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut, the Albert Bonnier Jr. Professor of Media Studies at Stockholm University, the Chaire Dupront at Sorbonne-Universités in Paris, the Dr. Elizabeth Chopin Endowed Professor atWebster University-Vienna, and visiting professor at universities in China, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the USA.
The recipient of Andrew Carnegie, Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, Woodrow Wilson and NIAS fellowships, Kraidy has published a dozen books, notably Hybridity, or the Cultural Logic of Globalization (Temple UP, 2005), Reality Television and Arab Politics (Cambridge UP, 2010), which won three leading prizes, and The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World (Harvard UP 2016), which won three major awards.
His current projects focus on theory in and for the Global South, digital sovereignty and the elemental politics of extremism, the geopolitics of Turkish television drama, the aesthetics and politics of music videos, the evolution of political graffiti in the digital era. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies in New York, the International Advisory Board of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut, and the Board of Advisors of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He tweets @MKraidy.
Amparo Marroquín Parducci, Central American University
Amparo Marroquín Parducci is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the Central American University (UCA) of El Salvador since 1997. She has been a visiting professor in Nicaragua, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. She is part of the coordinating team of the research group on Political Communication and Citizenship for CLACSO and a researcher at the International Center for Studies on Border Epistemologies and Political Economy of Culture in Chile. She is a consultant for international organizations such as DW Akademie, GIZ, UNDP, Ford Foundation and Fredrich Ebert Stiftung among others. Her areas of expertise are cultural studies (memory, migration, narratives about violence) and communication studies (theories about communication, semiotics, media literacy, reception and audiences).
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Omar Rincón, University of the Andes
Omar Rincón is a Professor at the University of the Andes (Colombia). He holds a PhD in Human and Social Sciences from the National University of Colombia and is a television critic for El Tiempo. He also is an essayist and consultant for the online magazine 070. His current artistic project can be found at Narcolombia.com, and current journalism project at #el mejor periodismo está por venir [the best journalism is yet to come].
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Featured Workshop: Demystifying Scholarly Publishing: Conversations with Journal and University Press Editors
Sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Convenors and Moderators:
Dr. Aswin Punathambekar and Dr. Jing Wang
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
As scholars of global media and communication working in the Anglophone West, we often risk seeming to be area studies specialists even as we strive to avoid positioning global media and cultural dynamics as zones of difference in relation to Euro-American media cultures. With this broader problem in mind, these panels focus on what it takes for early career scholars to publish their work in leading peer-reviewed journals and university presses. Reflecting on what “global media and communication” has come to mean now, and how this vibrant field of study has evolved over the past three decades, panelists will address a number of topics including the changing landscape of scholarly publishing, what journals and university presses are doing to nurture early-career scholars, and what we might collectively do to support scholars writing from and about media cultures across the Global South.
Session 1: 9:00-10:20 am, Peer-Reviewed Journals and Global Media Studies
Elizabeth Ellcessor, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, Incoming co-editor of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Patrick C. Burkart, Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture.
Erica-Robles Anderson, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, Editor-in-Chief of Public Culture.
Moderator: Aswin Punathambekar, Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Co-editor of New York University Press’s Critical Cultural Communication book series, Co-editor of Media, Culture and Society
Session 2: 10:40 am-12:00 pm, First Books in Global Media Studies
Adrienne Shaw, Associate Professor of Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University, Co-editor of New York University Press’s Critical Cultural Communication book series, Associate Editor of Journal of Communication
Mary C. Francis, Director of University of Pennsylvania Press, Former Editorial Director at the University of Michigan Press
Mary Rose Muccie, Director of Temple University Press and Scholarly Communications Officer in Temple Libraries
Moderator: Jing Wang, Senior Research Manager, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania