[ecrea] ECREA - Diaspora, Migration & Media Section Workshop programme

European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
Diaspora, Migration and Media Section (DMM)
Workshop: Keywords: Continuities, complexities and challenges in the
field of Diaspora, Migration and Media
Date: 2-3 December 2011
Location: National University of Ireland, Maynooth

PROGRAMME

Friday 2nd December  (Callan Hall, South Campus)
8.30 – 9.45 Registration
10.00 – 11.00

- Welcome from NUI Maynooth, and the DMM section organizers.

- Opening keynote: Ben Pitcher, University of Westminster: 'Thinking beyond Racism in Race Theory'

11.00 – 11.30 Tea/coffee

11.30 – 13.00 ‘Keywords’: Continuities, complexities and challenges in the
field of Diaspora, Migration and Media

- Monika Metykova, Northumbria University: ‘Understanding and translating keywords: intersection between academic and media policy makers’
- Sonja de Leeuw, Utrecht University: ‘Reshaping the Border Zone’
- Anne Mulhall, University College Dublin: Intimate States: the biopolitics of contemporary Ireland

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch (Pugin Hall)

14.30 – 16.00 Panel 1: Diasporic Identites: Place, Politics, Practices.

- Shepherd Mpofu, University of the Witwatersrand: 'Diaspora identities, homeland politics and the virtual discussion of the taboo: A critical analysis on how Zimbabweans use diasporic media to discuss "taboo" issues about Zimbabwe'.
- Christine Lohmeier, University of Munich: Cosmopolitan by default? Place and diasporic identities
- Dag Slettemeås, University of Oslo: 'Diasporic and parabolic:  Functions and dilemmas of satellite-TV appropriation among immigrant households in Norway'
- Olga Guedes Bailey, Nottingham Trent University: 'Migrant women, agency, and empowerment'

16.30 – 18.00 Round table: Research: Future agenda and collaborations

19.00 Reception and conference dinner (Pugin Hall)
Saturday 3rd December  (Iontas Building, North Campus)

9.30 – 11.00 Panel 2&  3 (parallel)

Panel 2: Imagined Communities, Textual Readings, Media Strategies

- Harald Bauder, Ryerson University: 'Dialectic of imagination: imagining community and nation in the Canadian and German media'

- Kamil Zapasnik, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Time for dissensus: Ranciérian readings of Haneke'

- Luis Rocha Antunes, University of Kent: 'Exiled identities: Persepolis - the new transnational film genre?'

- Ivan Darias Alfonso, School of Oriental&  African Studies (SOAS): Re-reading Cuba in London: media and identity in the Cuban diaspora

Panel 3: Migrant Media Use
- Gloria Macri, Dublin City University: Online identity narratives among Romanians in Ireland

- Martin Bak Jorgensen, University of Aalborg&  Pinar Yazgan, Sakarya University: 'Media patterns of Turkish immigrants in Denmark: A Turkish mediascape?

- Danieli Milesi, University of Milan: 'Daughters and sons of migration, social networks and relational media use'

- Mercedes Medina, University of Navarra: 'Revising media research for immigrants in Spain'

11.30- 13.00 Panel 4&  5 (parallel)

Panel 4: COST action on Transforming Audiences, transforming societies: 'Media, citizenship, and social diversity'.
- Manuel Mauri Brusa University of Lugano, Alexander Dhoest, University of Antwerp: 'Defining the unit of analysis in ethnic minority audience research: Issues of terminology and categorization in different national contexts'

- Noemi Mena Montes, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos: 'The role of media logic and news hypes in the way politicians and public opinion understand and approach immigration'

- Natalia Khvorostianov, Nelly Elias, Galit Nimrod, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: 'Appreciating the past, coping with the present: digital diaspora in later life'

- José Carlos Sendín Gutiérrez, Noemi Mena Montes, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Spain: 'Media, new technology and Diaspora groups: building a sense of community and a public voice'

- Marta Cole, University of Lugano: Patterns of audience and users engagement with media technologies: the case of the Kosovar Diaspora in Switzerland

Panel 5: Strategies of Representation, Politics of Participation

- Neil O' Boyle, Paschal Preston and Franziska Fehr, Dublin City University: 'Immigrants in Irish media: tackling the diversity deficit'
- Helga Ólafs, University of Iceland: 'Icelandic media and multicultural policies'
- Malina Ciocea, National School of Political Studies, Bucharest: 'Constructing deliberative practices in Romanian media: the case of professional migration debates'
 - Magdalena Ratajczak, University of Wrocław: 'The EU Presidency and the promotion of intercultural dialogue'

Lunch 13.00 - 14.30
14.30 – 16.00

Panel 6 - Mediating Migration
Keynote 2: Alan Grossman&  Aine O Brien (Dublin Institute of Technology): 'Voice, listening and social justice: a multimediated engagement with new immigrant communities and publics in Ireland'
- Glenn Jordan&  Satwinder Singh, University of Glamorgan: 'The ethnographic project ‘A Sikh Face in Ireland’
 - Aparna Hebbani, University of Queensland: 'Designing community media for the Sudanese former refugee community in Australia'

17.00 Photographic Exhibition and closing reception

All welcome!!!

For further information:
(1) Registration and accommodation details at: http://maynoothcampus.globalenginemedia.com/conference2?conf=ECREA
(2) Queries concerning registration and accomodation issues: (events /at/ nuim.ie)
(3) Programme details and local contact: Dr Gavan Titley, (gavan.titley /at/ nuim.ie),&  Zoe O Reilly, Media Studies, NUI Maynooth.
(4) General university and location information: http://www.nuim.ie/about/
(5)  General information on the section/ECREA: Dr Olga Guedes Bailey, (olga.bailey /at/ ntu.ac.uk)<mailto:(olga.bailey /at/ ntu.ac.uk)>  and Prof. Sonja De Leew, (J.S.deLeeuw /at/ uu.nl)




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