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[ecrea] Seminar “Historical and contemporary representations of Islam and the West in media and culture”

Fri Sep 14 08:13:25 GMT 2012


Call for Abstracts
Deadline for abstracts: October 08, 2012

Notification: October 19, 2012

Deadline for full papers: November 23, 2012



Title of the DSh Seminar: “Historical and contemporary representations of Islam and the West in media and culture”, Tuesday, December 04, 2012, Brussels, Belgium



Culture, media, and cultural identity have significant roles in representing ‘others’ in negative or positive ways. In this case, the questions such as ‘what is being represented, how the ‘others’ is represented, how people are inspired by the representation, whom the representation belongs to, what the representation means to ‘us’ and the ‘others’, how people make sense of it’ are some among many other questions that matter in cultural and media portrayals. Relating to our topic, the followings are the main questions that will be attempted to discuss about in the seminar:

How Islam and the West are represented in Western or Islamic media and culture?

How these portrayals influence our perception of them?



Aim: The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars and students to promote discussions and understanding across the ways of improving the relationships between Islam and the West and the role the media and culture play in this matter.



Participants: We warmly welcome PhD students who are doing their researches on the historical and/or contemporary representation of Islam and the West in culture and/or media.



Fields: The abstracts related to the subject of the seminar with the aim of improving the relationships between Islam and the West are welcomed.



Content of the Seminar: The seminar is composed of sessions that will be inaugurated by an introductory lecture by Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez, chair for International and Comparative Communication Studies, from University of Erfurt, Germany, for one hour followed by the panel discussion, which is expected to last approximately for another hour. In the second session each PhD student will present his/her research for 20 minutes and consequently two respondents from the advisory board will have 20 minutes each to give their feedback on the presentation.



Please submit a 500-word abstract by Monday, October 08, 2012 via email: (Shohreh.Bolouri /at/ vub.ac.be). Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, an email address and at least three keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. All abstract submissions will be peer reviewed and decisions are reached by October 19, 2012.


The PhD students whose abstracts were accepted need to submit a written paper (between 5000 to 9000 words) to (Shohreh.Bolouri /at/ vub.ac.be) by November 23, 2012.



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