[Air-L] CFP: Whose Voice? Theory & Practice (Hong Kong - Sept. 2015)

Allan Bahroun allan.bahroun at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 21:17:28 PDT 2015


Dear members of the AoIR list,

Please find below a call for papers for a conference to be held in Hong
Kong next September.

Our conference will deal with *social research* as whole and therefore we
warmly welcome papers on the role of digital media and Internet research
practices.

The event will be a great occasion to share one's research in a
multidisciplinary context with other young scholars.

Best,

- - - Allan Bahroun
——
PhD Student
HK Polytechnic University
(Applied Social Sciences)

*------------------------------------------------------------*

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Whose Voice? Theory & Practice*

*September 24th-25th-26th 2015*

The International Postgraduate Conference is an annual event organised by
the research students from the Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS)
at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This 5th Edition invites
postgraduate students as well as international researchers to a collective
debate on *how social scientists represent the ‘voices’ of society within
and beyond the academic community*.

The appropriation of the ‘voices from others’ is central to the production
of knowledge in the Social Sciences. By turning human subjects into
empirical objects the academic texts produce a particular 'polyphony’. As
researchers, whether we highlight the voices of marginal actors, translate
foreign voices into new theories, or quote voices from our fieldworks, we
are engaging with the discourse of others. More than just a methodological
discussion, our conference considers the textualisation of social 'voices’
in research as an intellectual practice. In that perspective, the event
wishes to offer a window of opportunity for participants to* present their
research by reflexively interrogating their own practice of ‘voices’*.

We welcome papers in disciplines such as but not limited to Anthropology,
History, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Social Work
and Social Policy, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural  and Gender
Studies, Linguistics, Translation Studies.

*The conference particularly welcomes papers that present ongoing research
addressing the following issues:*

*• Forms of Voices*

Representing social activities (fieldwork-archives-interactions) within the
text
Finding the right word between ordinary terms and scientific concepts

*• Voices and Positions*

Conflicting epistemologies between the researcher and the researched
Researcher: activist, participant-observer or witness of the social life?

*• Voices across Spaces*

Marginalised and vulnerable voices with new channels of expression
Politics of research and spaces of publication for young researchers


*CONFIRMED MASTERCLASS SPEAKERS*

Prof. HU Yong, Associate Professor at Peking University’s School of
Journalism and Communication.
http://yong.hu/about

Dr. John POSTILL, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT
University, Melbourne and Digital Anthropology Fellow at University College
London.
http://johnpostill.com/about-me/


*ABSTRACTS*

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by the 28th of June 2015 to
voice.pgc2015 at yahoo.com. The conference will be conducted in English and is
free to attend.

More information available: http://voice-pgc2015.tumblr.com


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