TRANSVERSING BORDERS

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Transversing Borders

The first annual Four Corners Graduate Conference theme aims to facilitate, deepen, and showcase the conversation about Transversing Borders in the field of communication. As four corners share the state borders and closely located within the tensions of inter/national borders, the conference centers our discussions about identity, cultural, and political formations within/without/across/above/below borders:

• Paradigmatic engagements: Interpretive/post-positive, social science, critical theory

• Identity and culture

• Immigration and diaspora

• Four corners (state/national borderlines)

• Hegemony and whiteness

• Intersectionality (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, disability, etc.)

• Out-of-bounds, LGBTQ identity formation

• Local, national, international, and transnational context of communication

• Inter/cross-cultural, national and inter/trasnational borders

• Border health, equity, and equality

• Imagined borders and materiality

• Community engagement

• Cutting edge of the borders: Journalism and media

• Academic borders: Theory and praxis, pedagogy, and mentoring

• Space, time, and subjectivity​

• Any topics in the communication field that do not necessarily center the theme of the conference are also welcome. 

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With the theme of Transversing Borders, we encourage scholars to address key questions such as:

• How do we define borders?

• How do bodies cross borders?

• How does border appear in our life?

• How do physiological/psychological boundaries exist within the particular society?

• How does border connect and/or disconnect us?

• What are the relationships between borders and identities/cultures?

• How does border studies contribute to move forward and further interrogate communication discipline?