[eccr] Evora, Portugal - Language Communication Culture

>The 3rd International Language, Communication, Culture Conference
>University of Évora, Portugal
>23  25 November, 2005
><outbind://4/www.lcc2005.pt.vu/>www.lcc2005.pt.vu/
>Second Announcement and Call for Papers
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>The 3rd International Language, Communication, Culture Conference, to be 
>held in Évora, Portugal, November 23-25, 2005, offers an opportunity to 
>bring together academics, intellectuals and practitioners in the areas of 
>media and cultural studies and the social sciences and humanities from 
>around the world and to promote informed discussion on globalisation, 
>democracy and culture as a theme relevant for intellectual work in 
>language, communication and culture studies, research and practice.
>The Conference is organised by the staff and associates of the Culture 
>and Society Postgraduate Programme (University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters)
>
>International and interdisciplinary perspectives and papers are invited on
>1. The languages of globalisation, the languages of culture:
>- The politics of language learning and language hegemony in a global world;
>- The languages of democratic international cinema;
>- The languages of documentary and humanist photography;
>- Languages and (cultural) identities; performative languages of gender 
>and race;
>- Narrative models of Media discourses as a fast-food culture industry.
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>2. Globalisation and democracy in global communication:
>- The Media, the West and the Rest; globalisation / glocalisation 
>strategies and tactics in the Media;
>- Journalism and war; the Media and terrorism; the Media and human rights;
>- Press freedom and (democratic) self-regulation;
>- The Media and alternative (and independent) politics;
>- New Media and new democracy.
>
>3. Globalisation and culture:
>- Globalisation and cultural internationalism: Learning / Unlearning 
>dominative global discourses and practices;
>- Negotiating meaning across cultural differences and in multicultural 
>discourses; forms of democratic participation in formal and informal 
>communities of cultural practice and shared languages;
>- Cultural knowledge in the Information Age: Learning how to acquire, 
>transfer, produce and use cultural knowledge effectively and in innovative 
>ways;
>- Processing cultural knowledge in the informational society;
>- New cultural mediators/intermediaries.
>
>Full information on keynote speakers, submission deadlines, standard and 
>"early bird" fees, etc., is now available online at
><http://www.lcc2005.pt.vu/>http://www.lcc2005.pt.vu/
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