Deadline now extended to 30th September 2009
MeCCSA 2010 Conference
Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th January 2010
MeCCSA is the UK subject association for those
teaching and researching in Media,
Communication and Cultural Studies. The
organisation holds its next conference from 6th
-8th January 2010, hosted by the Department of
Media and Communications, London School of
Economics and Political Science and held at
LSE. It includes a reception and conference dinner at LSE.
In keeping with the commitment of LSE?s
Department of Media and Communications to
policy-relevance and to the highest ethical
standards of practice in our field, the overall
theme of the 2010 conference is Media, Communication, Policy and Practice.
? Delegate fees can be found here:
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/MeCCSA_Delegate_Fees.htm>http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/MeCCSA_Delegate_Fees.htm
? Registration for the conference will open on 15th September 2009
Call for Abstracts
We invite papers, panels, presentations of
practice and posters across the range of
interests represented by the Association and
its networks
(<http://www.MeCCSA.org.uk>www.MeCCSA.org.uk).
Some sessions will weave together practice and
research and there will be separate screenings,
in full, of this material. Please submit
online
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/>http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/
by 30th September 2009.
Poster Competition
The MeCCSA Executive Committee is offering
a poster competition prize of £100. The
academic poster is highly valued by MeCCSA as
an indicator of current research and there will
be a good space set aside at the 2010 conference for this activity.
Competition for Best Paper on Art, Design and Media for Higher Education
The Art Design Media - Higher Education Academy
Subject Centre (ADM-HEA) is offering a £500
prize and publication for the best paper
analysing key issues impacting on media,
communications and cultural studies in higher education.
Competition for Best Paper on Media and Communications Policy
LSE's Department of Media and Communications is
offering a £300 prize and publication in its
Media@LSE Electronic Working Paper Series
(subject to final revisions by the conference
organisers), for the best paper addressing
critical perspectives on key issues of policy
relevance in a convergent media and communications industry.
Submission Procedures
Please submit online
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/>http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/
by 30th September 2009. Proposers will be
notified of acceptance no later than 23rd October 2009.
Confirmed speakers:
* Prof Tony Bennett, Western Sydney
* Prof Georgina Born, Cambridge
* Prof Paul du Gay, Warwick Business School
* Prof Sylvia Harvey, Lincoln
* Prof Adam Joinson, Bath
* Dr Jason Lee, Derby
* Prof Eileen Munro, LSE
* Dr Kieron O?Hara, Southampton
* Prof Charles Raab, Edinburgh
* Ed Richards, Ofcom
* Prof Karen Ross, Liverpool
* Dr Katharine Sarikakis, Leeds
* Prof Philip Schlesinger, Glasgow
* Dr Gillian Youngs, Leicester
Please note the dates in your diary, we look
forward to welcoming you to LSE! We have
attached a poster for your noticeboards.
LSE MeCCSA Organising Team
Department of Media and Communications | LSE |
Houghton Street | London | WC2A 2AE
<mailto:(media.MeCCSAconference /at/ lse.ac.uk)>(media.MeCCSAconference /at/ lse.ac.uk)
Do you really need to print this email?
