CALL FOR PAPERS
Media@LSE PhD Symposium, 2011
?Media and Identity?
Friday June 10th, 2011, 09h30 17h30
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
The aim of this PhD Symposium is to investigate
the multiple ways in which information and
communication technologies are transforming the
construction of personal and collective
identity. Encompassing print, electronic and
digital media, it examines how technologies
participate in the reflexive construction of the
individual self as well as in the construction
of boundaries of group inclusion and exclusion.
Conceptualizing identity as a process of
political struggle that may have
both emancipatory effects, enabling individuals
or groups to manifest themselves, and repressive
effects, excluding minorities from dominant
definitions of the self, the Symposium treats
the relationship between changing technologies
and changing processes of identity formation as
a central object of trans-disciplinary social research.
This Call for Papers invites abstracts from PhD
students who critically reflect upon and
problematize the relationship between media and
identity in any discipline of the social
sciences so as to explore, deconstruct and
re-conceptualize the concept of identity in the
context of a media-saturated world.
The Symposium welcomes, but is not necessarily
limited to, abstracts in the following areas of enquiry:
? Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Recognition
? National identity
? Culture and Multiculturalism
? Identity Change
? Shared identities
? Post identity
? Social identity
? Representation of self
? Religious identity
? Gender and Sexual Identity
SUBMISSIONS
Please submit a 300-word paper title and
abstract by February 15th 2011 at:
(Media.Symposium /at/ lse.ac.uk). On a separate sheet,
please include your name, paper title,
institutional affiliation and contact details as
well as PhD project title. Successful
submissions will be announced by 20th March 2011.
Subject to availability, research students
wishing to attend the workshop without
presenting are welcome; please indicate your
interest by e-mailing the same address with
details of your institutional affiliation, PhD project title.
