CRDM Symposia

Apr 2, 2026

2026 CRDM Symposium: Circuit Breakers

Today’s digital world is built for smooth, automated control, driven by profit and colonial history. These systems often ignore the reality of the people who actually use them—those who have to fix, repurpose, or rebel against technology just to survive. Circuit Breakers is a call to action to dismantle these rigid structures together. This year’s…

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Jan 14, 2025

2025 CRDM Symposium: Digits – Fingers, Numbers, Code

The 2025 CRDM Symposium seeks to explore the many meanings of “digits” and how they intersect with communication, rhetoric, and digital media. The presentations of the symposium focus on the embodied significance of digits (fingers, hands) in communication, the role of numerical data and statistics in shaping rhetoric, and the power of code in shaping digital communication…

Jan 1, 2024

2024 CRDM Symposium: Mobile Media, Self, and Society

The 2024 CRDM Research Symposium is partnering with the Networked Mobilities Lab (NML) Lecture Series this year. The theme of the symposium, "Mobile Media, Self, and Society", encourages us to consider the relationships between humanity, technology, and the spaces we occupy.

Jan 1, 2023

2023 CRDM Symposium: Civic Engagement, Games, and the Smart City

The 13th annual CRDM Research Symposium will be held March 23rd, 2023, in the Caldwell Lounge. The theme for this year's symposium is "Civic Engagement, Games, and the Smart City".

Jan 1, 2022

2022 CRDM Symposium: Infrastructures and/as Anticolonialism

The aim of the 2022 CRDM Symposium (March 24-25) is to collectively envision the potential of infrastructures as sites of resistance against colonialism and settler capitalism.

Jan 1, 2021

2021 CRDM Symposium: Technologies of Race

While this year’s symposium will be different from previous iterations due to the public health concerns associated with COVID-19, we are still looking forward to some important and thought-provoking discussions in and around the way technologies and identities intersect and shape each other.

Jan 1, 2019

2019 CRDM Symposium: Dialog 2.0

The 2019 CRDM Symposium "Dialog 2.0" will attract students and scholars from various disciplines and across underrepresented populations to engage with each other about how to dialogue productively in this new world of alternative facts, false news, and intimidation and in which issues of public import are often deliberated over social media.

Jan 1, 2018

2018 CRDM Symposium: Hybrid Play

The 2018 CRDM symposium (March 26-27) explores hybrid play as an interdisciplinary activity, one that is capable of generating new forms of communicative and artistic expression and new ways of interacting with, and understanding, the world.

Jan 1, 2017

2017 CRDM Symposium: The ReMIX

The 2017 CRDM Research Symposium will take place March 24-25. This year's theme is "The ReMIX: Multimedia and Intersectionality in Culture, Communication, and the Academy".

Jan 1, 2016

2016 CRDM Symposium: Critical Invention

The 2016 CRDM Symposium seeks papers, creative work, and digital projects in a wide range of formats and from various disciplines following the theme of “critical invention.” This year, the CRDM Symposium will be hosted in conjunction with the Carolina Rhetoric Conference.