[ecrea] Creative, Critical & Radical: programme of Goldsmiths Media's 35th anniversary

CREATIVE, CRITICAL&  RADICAL
35th anniversary of the Department of Media and Communications at
Goldsmiths, University of London

Friday 8th November 2013
A day-long symposium featuring talks and discussions by leading scholars
and practitioners (10am-6pm), followed by an exhibition opening

Venue: New Academic Building (LG01), Goldsmiths, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW

You are warmly invited to come and celebrate the 35th anniversary of
Goldsmiths’ Department of Media and Communications. The event aims to
represent the diversity of theory- and practice-driven approaches to the
disciplinary conjunctures around media and culture embraced by the
Department throughout its history. As such, it will span a wide range of
themes and topics – from democracy, neoliberalism and public life to the
ethics and politics of journalism; from feminism and global media to the
materiality of screen and Internet time; from media futures to the
future of media studies.

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

10.00-10.15 Welcome and opening remarks: Joints Heads of Department
Prof. Natalie Fenton and Dr Julian Henriques

10.15-11.15 KEYNOTE PANEL: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA STUDIES
Prof. Sara Ahmed, Prof. James Curran, Dr Tony Dowmunt, Prof. Sean
Cubitt; chaired by Dr Mirca Madianou

11.15-11.30 – Coffee

11.30-12.30 MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
Prof. James Curran on the needs of media and democracy and the attempts
to reform the press; Prof. Aeron Davis on the media failure in relation
to the crash and the continued ascendancy of neo-liberalism; Angela
Phillips on ethics which needs structures that would empower
journalists; Prof. Des Freedman on the Leveson failure to engage with
power and the need to limit media concentration and sustain new
initiatives; Prof. Natalie Fenton on new social movements and a better
tomorrow.

12.30-13.30 – lunch break

13.30-14.30 GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS: FEMINISMS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
The session will profile a project that took place in the Department in
the 1990s, whose legacy very much lives on. The project arose out of an
ESRC grant won by Prof. Valerie Walkerdine (now of Cardiff U) to explore
the lives and educational aspirations of young working class and middle
class girls. The project evolved into an exciting theory/practice
collaboration, which produced a series of video diaries made by the
young girls and screened on Channel 4. Prof. Walkerdine and members of
the Department, incl. Jacqui Cheal, Tracy Bass and Tony Dowmunt, will
talk about the project, screen some of the diaries and engage in a Q&A
with Prof. Sara Ahmed and Prof. Lisa Blackman. The session will also
remember the contributions to shaping the Department made by the late
John Beacham, Prof. Ivor Gaber, Noski Deville, June Melody and Helen
Lucey, as well as many students who worked on the project.

14.30-15.30 – MEDIA FUTURES
How can we imagine and theorise media futures? Is the future of the
media social – or perhaps anti-social? Will the media become ever more
invisible, ubiquitous and all-encompassing – like the air we breathe? Is
futurology the best way of thinking about media futures? Last but not
least, taking into account the unprecedented changes occurring in our
environment, do we need to start thinking about a future ‘after the
media’ – or even ‘after the human’? These questions will be discussed by
Prof. Sarah Kember, Dr Julian Henriques, Mike Flood Page and Prof.
Joanna Zylinska.

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-17.00 – GLOBAL MEDIA
A discussion on the theme of ‘locating the global’, featuring Prof. Daya
Thussu (Westminster); Prof. Nick Couldry (LSE); Dr Gareth Stanton; Dr
Mirca Madianou; Dr Clea Bourne as well as Goldsmiths alumni Giang Nguyen
(BBC) and Zeena Feldman (City University). The session will be
introduced by Dr Marianne Franklin (via video) and moderated by Dr
Gholam Khiabany.

17.00-18.00 – SCREEN CULTURES AND MEDIA ARTS
A multilevel engagement with the problem of time, in its historical /
activist / narrative / real / ephemeral / comical-tragical-pastoral
guises. Speakers: Dr Pasi Valiaho on deep time; Dr Veronica Barassi on
internet time and Robert Smith on narrative time. Chaired by Prof. Sean
Cubitt.

18.00 – exhibition opening and drinks reception (aka BIG PARTY)
Exhibition will feature works by staff and students

All welcome: to reserve your FREE place please email Zehra Arabadji
<(Z.Arabadji /at/ gold.ac.uk)>

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Professor Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net

Curator of Photomediations Machine
http://photomediationsmachine.net

Artistic Director of the Festival of New Media and Video Transitio_MX05 "Biomediations" in Mexico City in 2013

New book: Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/life-after-new-media-0

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