[ecrea] Conference Cultures in Disarray: Destruction/Reconstruction

We are delighted to invite you to submit abstracts to the King's College 
London conference “Cultures in Disarray: Destruction/Reconstruction” on 
June 11th and 12th. The Conference is organized by PhD candidates from 
the Communication, Media and Creative Industries department at King's 
College London.

This year we are pleased to have three prominent researchers doing 
keynotes: Prof. Elisabetta Lazzaro, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Prof. 
Peter Dahlgren, Lund University; Prof. Nick Couldry. London School of 
Economics.


We invite abstracts on the following themes but welcome papers that may 
not fall directly within them, and feedback about how me may alter or 
add to them.

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The Problems: analyses of cultures in disarray, common explanations, 
causes, dynamics and configurations.
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Conceptual Frameworks: changes and developments in the basic notions and 
questions about the idea of culture, ontology and technology.
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Specific Sites of Contention:
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The Arts / Creative Industries
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Education / Knowledge Production
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Media / Public Sphere
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Management / Entrepreneurship
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Politics / Ideology
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Economy / Culture of Money
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Urban Culture / Community Development
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Reconstructions: ideas, strategies, designs, and case studies of 
emergent cultures that provide instruction and hope.


We welcome contributions from postgraduate students and academic staff 
until 1st April, 2015 (paper title, a 250-word abstract and author 
information - full name, institutional affiliation and email address). 
Please send to: (cmci-conference /at/ kcl.ac.uk). Notifications regarding 
acceptance will be sent by 15th of April 2015.


We will try to publish a selection of the best papers of our Conference 
after it is finished. If you want to have your paper evaluated for this 
publication, please send the full paper (Max. 7,000 words) to us by 20th 
of May 2015.


In case of queries please contact:

Agnieszka Widuto:(agnieszka.widuto /at/ kcl.ac.uk), Mengying Li: 
(mengying.li /at/ kcl.ac.uk), Ya-Chiao Tu:(ya-chiao.tu /at/ kcl.ac.uk), Leandro 
Augusto Borges Lima:(leandro_augusto.borges_lima /at/ kcl.ac.uk)


To keep yourself updated, please visit our conference website:

https://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/cultures-in-disarray/





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