[ecrea] Sites of Protest, 29 October 2014

Sites of Protest is the third event organised by the MeCCSA Social Movements Network since its foundation in 2013. This conference is organised in conjunction with the Canterbury Media Discourse Group at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Wednesday 29 October 2014
North Holmes Campus, Canterbury
Canterbury Christ Church University

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

9.15 – 10.00	Registration, Refreshments

10.00 – 10.15	Welcome and Introduction
	
10.15 – 11.00	Plenary

	Professor Stuart Price, De Montfort University
	“Location, Crisis and the 'Borderless State”

11.00 – 12.00	Panel 1

PANEL 1A
Music as a site of protest

- ‘Hunger for bread and horizons’: Protest songs and censorship in Spain (1936-1975).
Dr Ruth Sanz-Sabido, Canterbury Christ Church University.

- ‘A New Generation Forever’: The soundtrack of protest and change in Bulgaria.
Asya Draganova, Canterbury Christ Church University.

- Sites of protest and the state: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) and the British rave scene.
Robert McPherson, Canterbury Christ Church University. 	


PANEL 1B
Discourses of resistance

- Enlightenment as discursive conception for a new political order in the protests of 1968 in Western Germany.
Ruth Maria Mell, Institut für Deutsche Sprache.

- Rethinking the Political Utopia? Crossroads between Political Discourse, History and Advertising.
Núria Sara Miras Boronat, Universitat de Barcelona.

- Occupy: in Theory and Practice.
David Bates, Matthew Ogilvie and Emma Pole, Canterbury Christ Church University.


12.00 – 12.45	Lunch (Powell Foyer)

12.45 – 13.30	Plenary (Pg09)
	
	Katharine Ainger, Title TBC
	
13.30 – 15.00	Panel 2

PANEL 2A
Exploring sites of protest

- Community reclamation and revitalization of city blight: A Participatory action case study.
Jeff Copus, Penn State Harrisburg.

- (Un)acceptable protest: A case study of township protest in South Africa (Skype).
Janeske Botes, University of the Witwatersrand.

- The 2011 Egyptian revolution and the Egyptian community in the UK.
Rua Al-sheikh, University of Bedfordshire.

- The Caledonian Turn: People’s protest and alternative media in the run up to the Scottish referendum.
Dr Kirsten MacLeod, Edinburgh Napier University.

	
PANEL 2B
Sites of power and resistance

- The efforts of social subvertising: campaigning against corporations with social networks. The ENEL case study.
Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino.

- Regimes of social media in times of protest: the case of organised labour.
Dr Lina Dencik, Cardiff University.

- Restricting Digital Sites of Dissent: Commercial Social Media, Free Expression and Privatised Policy.
Dr Arne Hintz, Cardiff University.

- Using social media to build a counter-power movement: Multiple sclerosis and CCSVI, a case study.
Antonello Bocchino, University of Westminster.


15.00 – 15.15	Break, Refreshments

15.15 – 16.45	Panel 3

PANEL 3A
Processes of Online and Offline protest

- Berlin protest, times of unrest in diversity.
Dr Susanne Bauer, TAOS Associate.

- Logging into Gezi Resistance.
Can Kutay, Bilkent University.

- The city, mobilization process and the social media: Chile in the rear view mirror.
Jorge Saavedra Utman, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

- Community Radio constructs online and offline sites of protest: a study of Link FM.
Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani, Southern Illinois University.

	
PANEL 3B
Digital tools and activism

- How to measure online change in the offline world?
Jessamy Gleeson, Swinburne University of Technology.

- Thinking Beyond the Instrumental: A Heideggerian Trajectory for Digital Activism.
Stuart Shaw, University of Leeds.

- The challenge to spark a collective action via ICTs during the Syrian uprising.
Billur Aslan, Royal Holloway University of London.

- Social Movements and Multi-Scalar Protest: Examining Communicative Challenges.
Dr Pawas Bisht, Keele University.

16.45 – 17.00	Conference close

The registration fee is £20 and includes conference materials, lunch and refreshments. To register, please go tohttp://shop.canterbury.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=37&catid=172&prodid=1630&searchresults=1  by Thursday 23 October.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Best wishes,
Ruth

Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido
Lecturer in Media and Communications
School Coordinator of International
https://canterbury.academia.edu/RuthSanzSabido

School of Media, Art and Design
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
CT1 1QU


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