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Exclusions in the History and Historiography of Communication Studies
An ICA Pre-Conference Sponsored by:
The Communication History Division of ICA
26 & 27 May 2021
With simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and English
(supported in part by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Communication)
Schedule (all times UTC)
26 May 2021
14:00–14:15: Opening comments from pre-conference organizers
14:15–14:55: Charting the Subaltern and Constitutive Erasure
- Sarah Cordonnier (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France), “Constituted and Constituting Exclusions in Communication Studies”
- Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain), “Imaginario Textil Andino y Filosofía de la Comunicación”
14:55–15:05: Break
15:05–15:45: Gender-Based Exclusions and Methods For Recovering Women’s Voices
- Leonarda García-Jiménez (Universidad de Murcia, Spain/Colorado State University, USA) & Esperanza Herrero (Universidad de Murcia), “Including Female Voices in the Stories We Tell about Communication Research: Memories and Narratives of Women in Academia”
- Tarez Samra Graban (Florida State University, USA), “Performing Feminist Historiography through Metadata”
15:45–15:55: Break
15:55–16:35: Intellectual Fields, Politics, and Alternative Theories in Latin America
- Mariano Zarowsky (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), “Los Estudios en Comunicación y Cultura en América Latina en las Décadas de 1960 y 1970: Saberes Especializados, Redes Intelectuales Transnacionales e Intervención Político-Cultural.”
- Rafiza Varão (Universidade de Brasília, Brasil), “A Brief Look at Folkcommunication Theory”
16:35–16:45: Break
16:45–17:25: Geopolitics in the Cold War
- Maria Löblich (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Elisa Pollack (Freie Universität Berlin), & Niklas Venema (Freie Universität Berlin), “West Berlin’s Communication Studies as a Cold War Construct: A Study on Hegemony and Exclusion Between 1945 and 1989”
- Arvind Rajagopal (New York University, USA), “Social Scientists in the Global South: Allies or Antagonists of Cold War Technopolitics?”
17:25–17:35: Break
17:35–18:15: Cross-Sectional Interventions into Excluded Topics and Voices
- Sašo Slaček Brlek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) & Boris Mance (University of Ljubljana), “Inequality: The Blind Spot of Western Communication Studies”
- Jesús Arroyave (Universidad del Norte, Colombia) & Rafael González (Universidad del Norte), “La Producción de Conocimiento desde el Sur Global: Dándoles la Voz a los Silenciado”
18:15–18:20: Break
18:20–19:00: Press Historiography in Mexico and Spain
- Celia del Palacio (Universidad Veracruzana, México), “La Invisibilización de la Prensa de las Regiones de México en las Historias Nacionales y las Limitaciones de los Acercamientos Recientes a la Historia de la Prensa”
- Eloi Camps-Durban (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), “Por una Historia Inclusiva y Compleja de los Medios: Propuestas de Trabajo Para el Estudio de la Prensa Alternativa”
19:00–19:15: Organizers sum up and preview second day of pre-conference
27 May 2021
14:00–14:15: Opening comments from pre-conference organizers
14:15–14:55: Colonization, Decolonization, and Whiteness
- Lyndsey Beutin (McMaster University, Canada), “Sylvia Wynter and the History of Communication: A New World View”
- Tiago Salgado Barcelos (Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brasil) & Luciana de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil), “Actitudes Decoloniales: Enfrentamientos a la Colonización del Pensamiento Comunicacional Brasileño”
14:55–15:05: Break
15:05–15:45: Transnational Vectors, Cross-National Comparisons
- Emiliano Sánchez Navarte (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), “Una Práctica Intelectual entre América Latina y Europa (1979–1989)”
- Rodrigo Miranda Barbosa, (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro Acadêmico do Agreste, Brasil) “Luiz Claudio Martino’s Approach to the Problems of Communication as a Field in Brazil”
15:45–15:55: Break
15:55–16:35: Indigeneity in Latin America
- Miguel de Aguilera Moyano (Universidad de Málaga, Spain) & Juan Fernando Muñoz Uribe (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia), “Aportaciones Aborígenes a la Historiografía de la Comunicación: Una Mirada a las Prácticas Ancestrales de los Pueblos Latinoamericanos”
- María Magdalena Doyle (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina), “Dime Cómo Te Nombran(s) y Te Diré Quién Eres: Cartografía e Historiografía de los Estudios Sobre Medios Indígenas”
16:35–16:45: Break
16:45–17:25: Exclusions and Recoveries in Propaganda and Media Studies in the US
- Tanya Goldman (New York University, USA), “More Than a Footnote: Recovering Dorothy B. Jones’ Contributions to Content Analysis and Propaganda Studies”
- A.J. Bauer (University of Alabama, USA), “Conservative Press Criticism and the Propaganda Claim”
17:25–17:35: Break.
17:35–18:15: On the Ideological Contexts of Exclusion
- Angela Xiao Wu (New York University, USA), “Journalism via Systems Cybernetics: Reforming the Socialist Press for China’s Modernization in 1980s”
- Simon Sax (Universität Bremen, Germany), “Historiography as a Battleground of Exclusion in Post-Autocratic Communication Studies”
