[Air-L] CFP - First Forum 2021 Graduate Student Conference - Post(ing)

[Dan Lark]

Hello everyone,

The organizing committee is excited to share the call for papers for the
2021 First Forum Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Division of
Cinema and Media Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University
of Southern California. This year's theme is Post(ing)!
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CFP TEXT:

FIRST FORUM GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2021
OCTOBER 21, 22, 28, & 29
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

POST(ING)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We’re posting through it. All of it.

❏ posting on social media
❏ trolling and shit-posting
❏ post-theoretical paradigms and movements
❏ digital labor, content moderation and algorithms
❏ the postal service and infrastructure
❏ fans and celebrities
❏ posters and physical media
❏ going postal
❏ doomscrolling and attention economies
❏ the post-network TV era
❏ post-Covid-19
❏ bots and computation
❏ publics and publicity
❏ signposting and speech acts
❏ Postmates and gig economies
❏ outposts, fence posts, and borders
❏ post-production
❏ posting through it
❏ job posts and impostor syndrome

Our Call for Posts — The organizing committee of the 2021 First Forum
Graduate Student Conference invites our fellow graduate student scholars to
submit abstracts that explore the wide range of meanings suggested by the
word “posting” as it relates to the fields of cinema and media studies,
communication, gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and science
and technology studies.

While posting might immediately refer to the work of participating in
digital networks and the increasingly visible labor, affect, and resources
that participation demands, we invite submissions that touch upon a range
of mediums, methodologies, and approaches, from post-production to the
postal service. “Post-“ might suggest the numerous post-intellectual
moments scholars speculate we have been entering and exiting since the
1970s. Yet, even the formation of these post-modern, feminist, racial,
historical moments themselves have been called into question, leading some
to ask if we are now in the post-post-modern, the post-post-feminist era or
if there was anything “new” about these moments in the first place.
Meanwhile, many of us try to imagine a post-Covid era as old and new social
arrangements struggle to emerge. The tireless Twitter troll and commenter
on the human condition @Dril asks us to consider “posting ethically, within
reason,” a position the organizing committee asks applicants to take
seriously as they reflect on the multivalent meanings of “posting.”
Clearly, the novel social, historical, and political arrangements that make
posting and the “post-” meaningful are being reevaluated by people across a
wide range of contexts that invite scholarly attention and interrogation.

In order to encourage attendance, reduce burnout, and ensure the health and
safety of participants, students, and the broader Los Angeles community,
First Forum 2021 will be a virtual conference, with panels and events held
over two weeks on October 21, 22, 28, and 29.

Submissions should include an abstract (-300 words) and a short biography
(-150 words). Conference presentations will be 15-20 minutes. Applicants
must submit their materials by June 9, 2021 to
firstforumconference at gmail.com. Please include “Name + First Forum 2021
Submission” in the subject line. We warmly welcome non-traditional
projects, including but not limited to, video essays and art exhibitions
alongside traditional academic papers.

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Dan Lark
PhD Student | Annenberg Fellow
Division of Cinema & Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California