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

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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