Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

02/20/2025

Next Friday, February 28: please join us for a day-long Postdoctoral Fellows Colloquium! View the event program and register at https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/postdoctoral-fellows-colloquium .

02/19/2025

CARGC is delighted to co-sponsor tonight's art exhibit opening and discussion with artists Chelsey Luster, Bhumika Saraswati, and Shrujana Shridhar, organized by the Annenberg School's Center for Media at Risk. View event details and register at https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/navigating-precarity-artists-gender-race-and-caste .

02/17/2025

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 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bye-bye-tiberias-film-screening-and-qa-with-director-lina-soualem-tickets-1237435014439?aff=oddtdtcreator .

01/31/2025

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 https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/bye-bye-tiberias-film-screening-and-qa-director-lina-soualem .

01/24/2025

Save the date for a day-long Postdoctoral Fellows Colloquium on Friday, February 28: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/postdoctoral-fellows-colloquium ! The colloquium will feature presentations by Annenberg postdoctoral fellows across four panels: "Journalism Under Duress", "Genealogies of Data", "Media in/as Space", and "Global Flows of Culture and Critique." Each panel will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

01/22/2025

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 https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/center-advanced-research-global-communication-welcomes-three-visiting-scholars-spring-2025 .

News 7 Jan 2025 The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three Visiting Scholars for Spring 2025 Gholam Khiabany, Anis Rahman, and Anastasia Kavada will join the center this spring. The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for....

12/13/2024

The CFA for 2025-2026 CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open: bit.ly/cargcpostdoc2025 ! We are particularly interested in candidates whose work focuses on media and creative industries, media entertainment and popular culture, and novel expressions of belonging and citizenship. Please send us applications by February 1, 2025!

10/10/2024

Please join us on 10/24 at 12:15pm for a book talk with Fan Yang, "Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements". Learn more and register: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-book-talk-fan-yang-university-maryland-baltimore-county .

10/09/2024

The organizing team of the 2025 CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference, which will take place April 10-11, 2025 in Philadelphia, is seeking papers, films, artworks, or reflections that explore the theme, "Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies." Submissions are due by December 15, 2024. For more information, please visit https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/call-submissions-2025-cargc-fellows-biennial-conference-unsettling-global-media-and-communication .

09/09/2024

We look forward to seeing you at CARGC events this fall! Please join us for the Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium this Thursday and Friday and save the date for book talks with Lisa Yin Han and Fan Yang later in the semester. Learn more and register at http://bit.ly/cargcevents .

05/21/2024

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 .

05/21/2024

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

05/20/2024

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 .

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...

04/24/2024

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 .

03/18/2024

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 .

"The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media"

03/13/2024

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!

03/06/2024

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 .

02/14/2024

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 .