[ecrea] Language, Communication, Culture - call for panels

>5th International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
>College for Higher Education, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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>November, 28-30, 2007
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>First announcement and call for papers
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>'Post-industrial and infotainment' Cultural Studies:
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>Questions, Possibilities and Positions for Education
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>Recent times have witnessed radical changes in society and culture. 
>Post-industrial and post-Fordist global capitalism, shrinking job 
>markets, economic recession, new forms of surveillance and control, 
>large media conglomerates, near ecological breakdown, the rise of 
>fear and of social and personal instability have put pressure on the 
>discourses and practices of education in culture and society.
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>Cultural studies has a long-standing record of involvement with 
>education in the work of Raymond Williams, Henri Giroux, Peter 
>McLaren, Paulo Freire, M. Byram, and Lawrence Grossberg to quote but 
>a few researchers and practitioners, who have repositioned education 
>as an interdisciplinary field where issues of identity, diversity 
>and power, the 'high' and the 'low' of culture, the identity 
>politics of education, the 'cultural wars' between liberals, 
>conservatives and radicals matter.
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>But how has cultural studies engaged with the new conditions of 
>economic efficiency, with a society and culture colonized by media 
>culture, and the authority crises of schools and education?
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>How does cultural studies investigate and question the new 
>technologies, the new modes of cultural production and circulation 
>and the new forms of political and social life in the context of education?
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>In the face of such vertiginous change, does cultural studies 
>require new theories and politics? Does it call for a radical break 
>from previous forms of thinking society, culture, politics, and 
>education? Does it require a new 'turn' to revise, update, and 
>reconstruct education, culture and the new trajectories of societies?
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>We invite panels and papers   that explore past and contemporary 
>social formations, cultural practices and political, geographical, 
>and historic contexts from different theoretical and 
>multidisciplinary approaches bringing theory and practice together.
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>The conference will address the following aspects in connection with 
>Language, Communication and Culture studies:
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>How cultural studies pushes for new questions, new models and new 
>ways of study in the context of education;
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>Post-industrial pressures on education;
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>Power, representation and identity in education;
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>'Hard' news, 'soft' news, 'infotainment' and its effects on education:
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>Shifts in educational discourse: dominance of new technologies, 
>decline of authority, scepticism, media-saturated environments, 
>mass-dissemination of signs and images, changed conditions of 
>circulation of information and knowledge in the 
>technologically-sophisticated 21st century;
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>Transformative, emancipatory, radical  and critical pedagogies;
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>Politics of culture and education: pedagogy of commodification, 
>politics of reception;
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>Schools as institutions and as sites of learning in contrast with 
>new sites of learning;
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>How educators appropriate and use new education cultural 'texts' and 
>cultural practices.
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>March 30, 2007: deadline for panel proposal with 150-word abstracts.
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>Please send proposals of panels to  Margarida Morgado 
>at  <mailto:(marg.morgado /at/ ese.ipcb.pt)>(marg.morgado /at/ ese.ipcb.pt)
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>June 15, 2007: deadline for paper proposal with 150-word abstract.
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>On line registration will be available after April, 30 2007.
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