[ecrea] New Media and the Global Diaspora

>New Media & the Global Diaspora
>2 to 4 October 2008
>Bristol, United States
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>The 2008 New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium at Roger
>Williams University is an interdisciplinary humanities conference
>addressing the global migrations of the past 100 years and the
>role media has played in transmitting 'living traditions,'
>particularly as these traditions are subject to loss, gain, and
>interpretation. What impact do media have on the forging and
>sustaining of cultural identities? How can the humanities guide
>us to understand why 'living traditions' are at the nexus of
>questions about the global diaspora? This three-day event will
>feature paper and roundtable sessions, an International concert,
>and culminate in a tour of Newport, Rhode Island, a significant
>immigrant destination for nearly 400 years.
>
>The symposium is a plenary experience; no overlapping
>presentations will be scheduled. Symposium participants hear all
>presentations and stay for the entire program in order to build
>the kind of feedback and informal discussions that mark the
>nature of this event. Most presentations are given a time slot of
>20 minutes. This format allows for a respondent and audience
>questions. We are very pleased that the proceedings of this
>symposium will be published in our new peer-reviewed journal
>Reason & Respect: civil discourse in a global context, to be
>published beginning Fall 2008.
>
>The organizers of the 2008 Symposium invite the submission of
>position papers addressing one of the following topics:
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>* Locating Interdisciplinarity: Technology and the Humanities
>* Real Places-Virtual Spaces: Creating Cultural Communities
>* Exploring Gender at the Crossroads of Media and Culture
>* Seeing Diaspora: Media, Community and Visual Rhetoric
>
>The deadline for papers is 15 June 2008.
>
>Enquiries: (roconnell /at/ rwu.edu)
>Web address: http://newmediasymposium.org
>Sponsored by: Roger Williams University

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
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Office: 5B.401a
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Katholieke Universiteit Brussel - Catholic University of Brussels
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Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis
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