[ecrea] New Media and the Global Diaspora

New Media and the Global Diaspora
2 to 4 October 2008
Bristol, RI, United States

Website: http://newmediasymposium.org
Contact name: Roxanne O'Connell



Conference Announcement / Call for papers

New Media & the Global Diaspora
2 to 4 October 2008
Bristol, United States

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:

* 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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