<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c2f0b921-7fff-5f1e-9dc3-a0eb5bc5f0cb" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Dear Colleagues,</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’m excited to invite online contributors to a short-term blog series focused on global politics. The blog will run between February and June 2023, coinciding with the public-facing event series, “</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Talking Politics 2023: Silences and Voices in Global Media</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.” This series is jointly organized by UChicago’s Center for the Study of Communication and Society (CSCS) and CU Boulder’s Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP). Through it, we aim to reach beyond traditional academic audiences to show how experts in the academy and beyond analyze empirical data to ground their findings.</span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Talking Politics 2023 builds on the first iteration of the series. Talking Politics 2020 featured webinars by Adam Hodges, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Janet McIntosh, Jonathan Rosa, and Michael Lempert, who shared their analytic perspectives on the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. In Talking Politics 2023, we’re excited to expand our focus to include global political affairs beyond U.S. electoral politics. Our intended topics range from hyper-local political discourse (like U.S. school boards) to global contestations of “Mother Tongue,” the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, and the transnational semiotics of “left/right” political binaries. </font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We welcome proposals for contributions in any format, from conventional blog writing on current events to interviews to creative or experimental formats, such as visual, video, audio, and/or works co-created with artists, educators, students, activists, etc. Junior scholars — especially students at any level or stage in their programs — are particularly encouraged to contribute!</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If interested, please reach out to Roberto Young (</span><a href="mailto:roberto_young@utexas.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">roberto_young@utexas.edu</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Josh Babcock (</span><a href="mailto:jdbabcock@uchicago.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">jdbabcock@uchicago.edu</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), and Jacob Henry (</span><a href="mailto:jacob.henry-1@colorado.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">jacob.henry-1@colorado.edu</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). If you have concrete ideas in mind, feel free to share them in your initial email. Or, if you don’t have a specific idea but are broadly interested in the series and/or topic and want to be involved, feel free to drop us a note, as well!</span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will accept both expressions of interest and written contributions on a rolling basis, but for priority consideration, we look forward to hearing from you by </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 3, 2023</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best,</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Roberto, Josh & Jacob</font></span></p></span>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(51,63,72);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Roberto Young</span>, Postgraduate Fellow   </span><br style="color:rgb(31,38,43);font-family:LibreFrank,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(191,87,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The University of Texas at Austin</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(51,63,72);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> | <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies</span> </span><br></div></div></div>