[Air-L] REMINDER - CFP Preconference ICA: Decolonizing the Visual: Community, Memory, and Resistance

[Tom Divon]

Dear community!

This is a friendly reminder about the CFP for the ICA 2026 preconference
“Decolonizing the Visual: Community, Memory, and Resistance” (deadline for
submissions: March 15, 2026)

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2026/ica26-pc-visual-updated.pdf

This preconf brings together scholars, artists, activists, and community
practitioners working with videos, images, sounds, platforms, archives, and
visual storytelling in contexts shaped by colonial histories, conflict,
displacement, and structural inequality. At its core, our preconf centers
on the urgent question: who gets to be seen, remembered, and believed in
today’s distrusted visual worlds?

We welcome work that engages a broad range of issues, including visual
activism, testimony, community archiving, platformed witnessing, memory and
erasure, algorithmic visibility, and decolonial audiovisual methods. We
wish to create a space for thinking together about how communities use
visual practices to reclaim history, tell their own stories, and challenge
dominant ways of seeing and believing.

Please note that the submission details in the full CFP are *outdated*. The
current submission guidelines are as follows:

*Formats*
-> Research Presentations - Extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words
(excluding references); submissions should clearly articulate the research
focus; follow a coherent structure of your choice; explicitly state the
contribution of the work; include author(s) names, affiliation, and
academic status.

-> Interactive Roundtable on Decolonizing Visual Communication Methods and
Practices - Short proposals of up to 500 words (excluding references)
outlining a central theme or provocation; submissions should clearly
articulate key questions, tensions, or challenges related to decolonizing
visual communication; emphasize dialogue, collective reflection, and
methodological experimentation rather than completed research; indicate the
intended format and level of audience participation; and include the
facilitator's affiliation and academic or professional status.

*Submission details*
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2026
Submit to: ashley.stewart at uniport.edu.ng + tom.divon at mail.huji.ac.il

We look forward to seeing many of you in Cape Town!
Tom Divon and Ashley Ajumoke Stewart
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*Tom Divon*
Creators & Platforms R*esearcher*
Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya
Tel: +972-547-532681
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*Publications*:
>> Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in
TikTok #Challenges
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>
>> #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>
>> Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 Seconds?
<https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/>
>> Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in
Times of War
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051241269281>
>> Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate
communications of content moderation
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/29768624241303109>
>> The unsolicited algorithm: unveiling gendered harms and (non)consent in
apple iOS features
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2024.2433683?src=>
>> The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the
invasion of Ukraine
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241251804?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.1>
>> Youthful Platform Commemoration: TikTok as a Frontier for Holocaust
Education and Memory
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383957738_Youthful_Platform_Commemoration_TikTok_as_a_Frontier_for_Holocaust_Education_and_Memory>