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King\u2019s College London | 27th February 2026
Deadline for abstracts: Friday 21st November 2025<\/strong>
Keynote Speaker
Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of\u00a0London
NB: This is an in-person event to be held in London. Due to the sensitivity of the topics\u00a0discussed, the symposium will not be recorded.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Symposium details:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Counter-Research Symposium<\/a> is a one-day event organised by CRIMSON\u00a0(Counter Research in Media Studies Organized Network), a new cross-institutional\u00a0research network that centres research on marginalised, precarious, contentious, and\u00a0often silenced communities. It supports media scholars and activists undertaking\u00a0politically and emotionally complex work in challenging environments, including closed\u00a0authoritarian regimes, and whose research directly confronts state and institutional\u00a0power.
The symposium will bring CRIMSON members together with invited participants to\u00a0explore the meaning and stakes of counter-research in global media and\u00a0communication studies – particularly in the context of rising right-wing populism and\u00a0intensifying attacks on critical theories and DEI initiatives. It will also serve as a space\u00a0for collective reflection on the methodological, ethical, and emotional challenges of\u00a0conducting research that unsettles and confronts structures of the state,\u00a0establishment, and academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributions:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We welcome contributions that engage with the concept of counter-research and\u00a0examine its diverse dimensions – epistemological, methodological, and practical. We\u00a0are especially interested in work that explores positionality and vulnerability in counter-research; interrogates the risks shared by researchers and participants and how these\u00a0may be entangled; and work that complicates the very idea of the counter and considers how counter-research methods might unsettle conventional approaches to\u00a0media and communication. We also invite contributions that propose new frameworks\u00a0for sustaining such scholarship in precarious times, and that reflect on the role of\u00a0institutions in promoting more inclusive and reflexive scholarly cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We welcome papers related to any of the following topics:
\u2022 Researcher vulnerability in conflict-ridden contexts
\u2022 Researcher vulnerability in state-critical research
\u2022 Conducting research on authoritarian regimes (fieldwork challenges and\u00a0strategies of resistance or workaround)
\u2022 Researching the \u2018other\u2019: ethics, representation, and power
\u2022 Researcher\u2013participant relationships in counter-research contexts
\u2022 Intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, coloniality, and caste in counterresearch
\u2022 How institutions (universities and beyond) respond\u2014or fail to respond\u2014to the\u00a0challenges of counter-research
\u2022 Emotional labour, care, and precarity in counter-research
\u2022 Counter research as a contentious concept (thinking about who is claiming to\u00a0produce counter discourse or research, why and for what ends)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submission details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short biographical note (up\u00a0to 100 words) to crimsonsymposium@gmail.com by Friday 21 November 2025. We encourage submissions from PhD students, Early Career Researchers, and\u00a0scholars in precarious positions or from underrepresented backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key dates:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 21st November 2025: Deadline for abstract submissions
\u2022 19th December 2025: Notification of decisions
\u2022 19th January 2026: Full programme released
\u2022 27th February 2026: Symposium at King\u2019s College London\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organising Committee:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Munira Cheema, King\u2019s College Londo
Anna Khlusova, King\u2019s College London
Yuval Katz, Loughborough University
Matthias De Bondt, KU Leuven
Woori Han, University of Exeter\u00a0
Jiali Fan, University of Cambridge
Hong Yu Liu, University of Sussex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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