Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication


Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium

Join the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication for a symposium on transnational feminist networks and art exhibition

By Annenberg School for Communication

Thursday, September 12 5:30pm
& Friday, September 13 · 4:45pm EDT

Join us next fall for a two-day symposium exploring the development, maintenance, and challenges of feminist solidarities in our globalized world. The event will include an exhibition opening for Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity

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This two-day transnational feminist networks symposium explores the development, maintenance, and challenges of feminist solidarities in our globalized world. Amidst a decade of global feminist resurgence fueled by hashtags, neoliberal consumerism, and self-identification, we highlight the enduring work of transnational feminist networks. These networks, spanning digital and physical space, actively contest the global rise of far-right populism, gender-based discrimination, and systemic violence against feminized bodies. Organized by graduate students, this event promises robust discourse spanning academia, activism, and the arts. Through an immersive art exhibition, keynote addresses, and interactive workshops, we aim to amplify marginalized voices and foster collaboration. By providing a platform for rigorous examination and forward-looking engagement, we aim to propel feminist scholarship and activism globally.

Full Program Forthcoming

Transnational Feminist Networks is organized by the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) and will be hosted at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Global Communication (CARGC) with additional support from the Center for Digital Culture & Society (CDCS), The Wolf Humanities Center, and the Center for Latin American and LatinX Studies (CLALS)

The event includes a Thursday evening keynote (12th September 2024) event and a full day of Friday panels (13th September 2024) and a contemporary art exhibition, Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity.

The event will be in-person and open to the public.

About the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

The Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) enables scholars to think and work across institutional, geographic and disciplinary divides. Jointly established by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, the center’s faculty, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students seek to address emerging global issues broadly across the field of communication and media.

The first-of-its-kind center not only explores what “collaboration” means for the field of communication and media, but also provides critical infrastructure for reimagining and potentially revolutionizing how collaborative communication can be used to address complex issues such as health care, data privacy, cultural and demographic change, politics, new media, gender/racial equity and justice, media literacy and policy, journalistic trust, and the restructuring of media industries in an evolving age of streaming and networked distribution.

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https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/present-futures-experiments-feminist-futurity
Sept. 12 - Nov. 19, 2024
Various Times
The Forum at the Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut St., Philadelphia

A contemporary art exhibition envisioning feminist solidarities across space and time, in everyday life, with an outlook towards “the future we want to see, right now, in the present”

“Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity” is a contemporary art exhibition that will open the two-day Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium from September 12-13th, 2024 at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. The exhibition will be displayed in The Forum of the Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) during the fall semester, from mid-August to late November 2024. Symposium organizers are currently seeking submissions from artists who creatively engage the symposium's themes, specifically envisioning feminist solidarities across space and time, in everyday life, with an outlook towards “the future we want to see, right now, in the present.” Follow on Instagram for updates: @tfn_presentfutures
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Exhibition Inspiration
In recent years, popular mobilizations like #MeToo, the traveling protest chant ‘Un violador en tu camino,’ and the International Women’s March have contributed to a global feminist resurgence. These moments of heightened visibility inspire, uplift, and illuminate pressing concerns facing women and gender-diverse individuals around the world but often eclipse the ongoing work at the grassroots level amidst seemingly insurmountable odds. Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity aims to highlight the undercurrents of popular feminisms — the acts, rituals, and practices that sustain transnational feminist solidarities and networks of care.

Beyond a sense of hope for a future we’d like to see from the top-down, our exhibition is inspired by Tina Campt’s proposal for a “grammar of black feminist futurity” that attends to the undercurrents of futurity evident in the present, the everyday, and the quotidian. She describes this revolutionary grammar (in the future real conditional) as a performance of a future that has not yet happened but must. Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity invites artists to meditate upon the quieter registers of feminist futurity that we can begin to imagine, live, and embody in the present.

We seek submissions that interpret the quotidian practices of the everyday as a means of consistently cultivating radical feminist knowledges, sustaining networks of care, and articulating communal resistance, within and beyond territorial borders, in often unspectacular and unglamorous ways.

More information about the exhibition is forthcoming.

Call for Artists: Present Futures - Experiments in Feminist Futurity
A contemporary art exhibition envisioning feminist solidarities across space and time, in everyday life, with an outlook towards “the future we want to see, right now, in the present”
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