Global Fusion

Global Fusion 2025 | OCT 16–19, 2025 | Carbondale, IL

The Critical Path In Disorienting Times: Explorations, Practices, and Solidarities

The Critical Path in Disorienting Times will center R. Buckminster Fuller’s notion of Critical Path as its starting point, focusing on Fuller’s understanding of the concept as means of achieving social, ecological, economic, and technological unity. The conference will promote scholarship and enhance practice in media, arts, and design by investigating the current manifestations of this notion of the critical path, its historiography, and its use as a conceptual framework integrating social, spatial, technological, ecological disciplines and discourses.

About

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Global Fusion Conference, an annual event organized through a consortium of communication and journalism programs through universities around the United States. The College of Arts and Media at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is proud to host the conference this year to help answer the call for global scholarship that addresses a disconnected world.

Global Fusion brings together young and emerging scholars as well as established scholars to share and discuss their research. We invite original, non-published research submissions on any theme of global media and international aspects of mediated communication. We are particularly interested in research that addresses major issues related to sustainability, equity, diversity, class and connectivity. 

If you have any questions about Global Fusion 2025, email us at: global.fusion.2025@siu.edu