[ecrea] Örecomm festival "Agency in the Mediatized World" 9-13 September 2011

ÖRECOMM FESTIVAL 2011


AGENCY IN THE MEDIATIZED WORLD is the overarching theme for the first 
Ørecomm festival, 9 – 13 September 2011, a five-day event taking place 
on both sides of the Öresund strait. The event is organized by the 
transnational research centre, Örecomm, which works to strengthen 
research in the interdisciplinary field of media, communication and 
social change.
Do take a look at our website: http://orecomm.net

The festival will start in Malmö with an open three-day seminar (9-11 
September) in conjunction with the international master programme in 
Communication for Development, stopping over in Copenhagen for a 
professional practitioner hearing on social media in development 
cooperation (12 September), and ending in Roskilde with an academic 
conference by the Glocal NOMAD (Network on Media and Development) on 13 
September.

The aim of the festival is to make researchers, students and 
practitioners meet and share experiences, and critically examine the 
field of media, communication and development in the light of 
mediatization, with special regard to the conditions for agency.

The speakers at the festival will include Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Thomas 
Hylland Eriksen and Karin Wilkins among many others, and there will be 
representatives from the major regional players in the field, DANIDA, 
IMS, SIDA, SPIDER and UNDP. Please see the full programme attached and 
follow its updates on www.orecomm.net/festival-2011/.

Please register your participation by 22 August.

You are welcome to spread this invitation in your networks.

For further inquiries please contact our festival secretariat via 
Solveig-Karin Erdal or Anne Sofie Hansen-Skovmoes at (orecomm /at/ gmail.com).


Oscar Hemer & Thomas Tufte
Co-directors of ÖRECOMM