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FSU’s South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference marks 10 years
The theme for the 10th year celebration was “Digital for Good.”
The first SAMCS conference was organized in 2015 and has grown in scale and popularity ever since / comm.cci.fsu.edu
The South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference (SAMCS) at the Florida State University recently marked its 10 year anniversary.
The event was hosted by the College of Communication and Information at FSU, along with the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy’s Ruth K. & Shepard Broad International Lecture Series and the Center for Global Engagement’s, Engage Your World Speaker Series.
The theme for the 10th-year celebration was “Digital for Good” and focused on digital platforms being used as crucial tools to transform social, cultural, and political interactions in the South Asian subcontinent.
Under the theme, the SAMCS conference “provided a collaborative platform for scholars and practitioners to discuss the way forward to achieve a sustainable and inclusive future for South Asia,” said Steve McDowell, the John H. Phipps Professor of Communication and assistant provost for International Initiatives at the university.
The event featured a keynote address by Dr Adil Najam, president of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), about Climate and Development in the Age of Adaptation, among other activities such as a virtual networking session. Najam discussed the environmental, financial, communication, global and health aspects of climate change.
He proposed “the age of adaptation fundamentally changes the nature of climate policy and politics. It introduces new challenges — and opportunities — to communicating,” stressing on the urgency to action.
The conference was held in partnership with the Department of Media Studies at CHRIST University, Bengaluru. The collaboration was facilitated by Kailash Koushik, an FSU alumnus who acquired his PhD in Media Studies from the School of Communication and is now an assistant professor at CHRIST University.
South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference (SAMCS)
The SAMCS is a leading global platform for researchers, academicians, and practitioners who actively contribute to the advancements of the media and cultural research, policies, and practices in the subcontinent, according to the FSU website.
The conference encourages scholars working in relevant areas to attend and reflect upon the field. It involves in-person as well as virtual participation by scholars and practitioners from different parts of the South Asian region.
The first SAMCS conference was organized in 2015 and has grown in scale and popularity ever since, the website noted.
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