[ecrea] Call for Papers - "'It is life that holds you in its grasp and carries you away'. Università Cattolica and the research on media from the end of WWII to the 1970s"

Call for Papers: “'It is life that holds you in its grasp and carries 
you away’. Università Cattolica and the research on media from the end 
of WWII to the 1970s”, International conference.

Date: Thursday 7th May to Friday 8th May 2015
Place: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
Deadline for abstract submission: Saturday 28th February 2015

The International conference “‘E’ la vita che vi afferra e vi trascina’: 
L’Università Cattolica e la ricerca sui media dal dopoguerra agli anni 
settanta” concludes a research journey that started with the 50th 
anniversary from the birth of Graduate School in Social Communications 
(originally Graduate School of Journalism and Audiovisual Media, today 
it is the Graduate School of Media, Communications and Performing Arts). 
The School has been working within Università Cattolica in Milan since 
1961 and on the one hand, it contributed to focus research efforts in 
the University toward the media, on the other it trained a large number 
of operators in the area of communications in Italy.

The objective of the conference is to describe, with the help of the 
case study offered by the Graduate School itself, the richness and 
complexity of the active influence of the Catholic Church in the 
aftermath of the Second World War in the field of social communication; 
the characteristic traits of this influence in Milan – and of Università 
Cattolica in particular; and the interaction of the International agenda 
with the national and the local.

From this point of view, it is possible to define a dual track in the 
cultural policies of the Catholic Church toward social communication 
means, where Università Cattolica played the role of active agent or 
interlocutor. In the first instance, on the level of academic research, 
the attention to media progressively detaches itself from a strong 
scientific methodology influenced by positivism (it was Agostino Gemelli 
who contributed to the diffusion and consolidation of the filmological 
culture in Italy) to develop a more practical and eclectic stance 
tailored on the object of media related first to theatre studies and 
dramaturgy, then to sociology and semiotics. In the second instance, on 
the level of pastoral policies, the shift is from a view that focused on 
the education of audiences (and on militant film criticism) to an 
approach centred on training media industry professionals, and on the 
creation of content and training of executives, especially for the radio 
and television.

Hence the development of a more open multidisciplinary view, a constant 
ethical attention and need for training activities that found in the 
Graduate School at Università Cattolica a place to thrive.


The organizing committee welcomes papers addressing the issues presented 
above.

The 100-word abstract, accompanied by a brief biographical note on the 
author, should be submitted by 28th February 2015 to the following 
e-mail address: (francesca.piredda /at/ unicatt.it)










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