The following is a CFP for a panel at next year's SCMS conference. Panel Title: Transnational Media Bodies This panel proposes to investigate media’s engagement with the varying social, political, and economic inflections of what has become one of the most salient characteristics of the global age: the movement of bodies. Terms like “transnationalism” and “globalization” are predicated on the circulation of mobile capital and labor that increasingly blur the boundaries of national and cultural identities. Intense debate over a range of issues that address precisely these forms of movement – such as terrorism and illegal immigration – implicitly must account for what kinds of people are allowable for circulation within the new structures of the world’s geopolitical and economic priorities. Such debates also draw attention to the types of bodies deemed illegitimate for such circulation. This panel welcomes essays that engage the various legal, paralegal, and illegal processes that inform, or are otherwise informed by, a particular management, or valuation of bodies that move (or do not move) across demarcated political, social, or geographical boundaries. The panel likewise welcomes essays addressing circulations within the body itself, exploring the body as a site where meaning is generated within its actual physical makeup. What values do we accord bodies that exhibit signs of a new global era? How are the movements and circulations that characterize global travel and commerce correlate to the physical bodies of its participants? Possible topics may include: transnational corporatism, stateless terrorism, militarism abroad, immigration, diaspora, various forms of trafficking, multi-cultural, multi-racial, or multi-ethnic identities, cyborgs, physical or psychological abuse resulting from the above categories, etc. *Please submit 250-300 word abstracts with brief bio to Sophia Siddique Harvey ([log in to unmask]) and Mike Dillon ([log in to unmask]) by the end of this month, 7/31.* All the best. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]