[ecrea] CfP: Workshop on National, Regional and local Identity/ies in Media and Music

Call for Papers
International Workshop, Bielefeld University (Germany), December 7-8,
2012
Organizers: Chiara Pierobon and Verena Molitor
National, regional and local identity/ies in media and music
Evidence from Europe and Russia

Working language: English

The workshop aims at bringing together Doctoral and Post-Doctoral
researchers from the field of sociology, history, linguistics and
literature, media and communication studies, political science etc.
interested in the studies of the complex relationship existing between
national, regional and local identity/ies and media/music in Europe and
Russia.
In different research contexts it is often stated that media and music
influences the construction/formation of identities and that new forms
of identities can be transported and formatted through them.
Indeed, media and music delimit the area of our conceivable realities,
communicating values, standards and traditions which can be taken up by
groups as identification supplies and used as part of their own
identity. Moreover, they play an essential role in the formation of
ethnic consciousness and in the construction of geopolitical areas,
contributing to the struggle over contested territory such as border
regions.

We are inviting proposals which can generate a fruitful discussion
addressing the following questions:
-	How do media and music take part in the production and dissemination
of local/regional/national identity/ies?
-	What kinds of “imaginary geography” are constructed and what kind of
national ideologies and mythologizing narratives are widespread through
media and music?
-	How are these media embedded in social structures and in
(transnational) cultural dynamics? What is their relationship to
institutions and power and which technological and financial means do
they have at their disposal?
-	Which methods can be employed and which are the methodological
challenges faced by researchers of this topic?

Proposals for papers at the conference are welcome until July 31, 2012.
Applications should include an abstract of the proposed presentation
(around 300 words) as well as the author’s short CV and should be sent
to:(media.music /at/ uni-bielefeld.de)
At the end of the workshop, a selection of the most compelling works
might be included in a final volume.

Participations will be provided free accommodation. A social dinner will
be offered at the end of the first day of workshop.
3-5 travel-grants may also be available.


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Verena Molitor, M.A.
Zentrum fuer Deutschland- und Europastudien  ZDES
Universitaet Bielefeld
Fakultaet fuer Soziologie
Postfach 100131
D-33501 Bielefeld
Phone: 0521/106-67344



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