Wendy Chun keynote at NYU’s Neil Postman Graduate Student Conference

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University is pleased to announce the Neil Postman Graduate Student Conference to be held on October 27-28, 2022 in a hybrid format (in person at NYU, with support for remote contributions).

Keynote speaker is Professor Wendy Chun and the theme this year is ‘Hinterlands of Media and Technology.’ The CFP is attached below. There will also be a virtual CFP launch event on March 24, 2022 at 12.30pm –1.30pm (EST). More details below; Register here.)

Hinterlands of Media and Technology
October 27-28, 2022
Keynote: Professor Wendy Chun, Simon Fraser University.
Format: Hybrid (in person at NYU, with support for remote contributions)

What is peripheral and yet indispensable to media and technology production? What networks and relations may be obscured or revealed if we interrogate the constitution of the center? This year, we focus on the centrality of the ‘elsewhere’ and the ‘otherwise’ in the production of media experiences and media technologies. To consider the many historical, geographic, economic, and material dynamics at play, we center our inquiry around the notion of the hinterlands, and invite contributions to the question: What and where are the hinterlands of media and technology?

The full CFP is attached below; applicants are required to send a 300-350 word abstract, bio, and any supporting media via this application form by May 1st, 2022.
Information is also available at www.postmanconference.org and questions can be directed to postman.nyu@gmail.com. We will also be posting regular updates on Twitter

In addition, we are hosting a virtual CFP launch event on March 24, 2022, at 12:30 PM EST, with a discussion of the theme’s relevance for work in different areas and sites, featuring:

Lily Chumley – Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU

Martin Scherzinger – Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU

Philipp Seuferling – Visiting Researcher at the Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU; PhD, Södertörn University, Stockholm (2021)

Ayesha Omer – Postdoctoral Fellow, UPenn Annenberg School of Communications, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication; PhD, Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU (2020)

We invite all prospective applicants and those interested in the theme in general to join this conversation. Opportunities for networking and socializing for graduate students have been limited during the past few years, and we hope this event will allow participants to build an intellectual community and engage in conversations in advance of meeting in person this fall.