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[ecrea] CFP - International conference on Media, Culture and Ideology

Fri Oct 24 05:21:02 GMT 2008



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

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