Call for Conference Papers
?REPRESENTATION NOW: THE SUM OF IT ALL?
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY - MADRID CAMPUS
MADRID, SPAIN
FRIDAY, 16 APRIL and SATURDAY, 17 APRIL, 2010
This international and cross-disciplinary conference centers on
representation. It is a term that points to an array of phenomena, from
representations as they play out in mass media discourse and ?stand in? for
reality, to issues of political representation in which a surrogate formally
stands in for the ostensible interests of a population. What is new in our
concepts and practices of representation? And what constitutes ?old wine in
new bottles?? Over the course of two days, we assay to extend and rigorously
tease out the multiple senses of representation, going beyond post-modern
celebration to orient to problems and possibilities in this volatile
post-millennial moment.
Professor Teun van Dijk of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona will deliver
the Keynote Address.
The following are designated as ?Areas of Interest?:
* News Media & Journalism: Representations of Reality
* Representations of Identity (Gender, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Alterality)
* Ethnographic Representation: Theoretical & Empirical Examinations
* Representation of Radicalism & Social Movements
* Representations of Change, Volatility and Crisis
* Self-Reflexive Representation: Media & Journalism Reflect on Themselves
* New Media: Representational Strategies & Effects
* Documentary Now and TV Verité
* Cartography
* Political Representation in the New Millennium
To apply to participate send the following before 10 February 2010 to
(conferencia.madrid /at/ gmail.com): (1) Your name, (2) title, (3) department and
institution, (4) an abstract of your work (no more than 250 words), and (5)
four ?key words? about your work.
Official languages of the conference: English and Spanish.
