Osmania University Centre for International Programs
Osmania University, Hyderabad ? 500 007
International Conference on Media, Culture and Ideology
29-31 January, 2009
This conference proposes to deliberate on
how mediaprint and electronicmediates
cultural configurations and influences
ideological formations. We invite papers, from
across disciplines, that examine in
contemporary or historical context the uses
made of visual, verbal & written language in
sections of the mass media (television & print,
primarily) with a particular focus on the
relationship between these cultural forms,
conventional understandings of the world & social power.
In the last century, from colonial
through anti-colonial and post colonial to the
contemporary global phase, media has played a
significant role in shaping culture and
ideology and this phenomenon warrants critical
analyses. Besides, media functions in the
public sphere, a realm which exists between the
State machinery and its formal authority and
the private domain which comprises of the civil
society and family unit and constantly
negotiates the intermediary space between the
public and the private and influences both the
domains. This crucial function of
the Media as the creator and
communicator of alternate Culture
and Ideology in
contemporary societies shall be the main focus of this Conference.
This conference will also focus in particular
on how films, and later television in India and
elsewhere, have had a massive impact in
creating and circulating images of the nation
and of a "national culture'. Both film and
television have sought to define, forge and
popularise images of a coherent, cohesive and
organic national community. Conversely the
media have also offered alternative,
dissenting and even oppositional visions of the
nation and of a national culture, questioning
'Establishment' values, or responding
sympathetically to the socially disadvantaged
and disenfranchised. A part of the task of this
conference is to explore these issues of ideology and representation.
Some of the issues that this conference wishes to address include:
* Representations of nation and nationness
in media including counter discourses of nation
* Revisionist /Alternate Historio: Portrayal
of historical incidents of the past from new and different perspectives.
* Caste/ Class/ Gender issues in media representation
* Media and Globalization
* Representation of Violence and Terrorism
* Media and ideology
* Other Related Issues
Proposals for either (a) individual papers or (b) preconstituted panels
should include the following: (1) a title, (2) an abstract NOT TO EXCEED
300 WORDS, and (3) a brief one-paragraph biographical statement about the
presenter, including academic affiliation and email address. Proposals
may be sent by email to
<mailto:(vijaya_chaganti /at/ yahoo.com)>(vijaya_chaganti /at/ yahoo.com)
before 20th November, 2008.
Conference Directors:
Prof. C.Vijayasree Prof. Kousar J. Azam
Director, OUCIP Advisor, OUCIP
