[ecrea] Cultures of Denial: Programme, Friday 27th November 2015

The *Media Discourse Group* (De Montfort University Leicester Media
School) is pleased to announce its free one-day symposium, '*Cultures of
Denial*', which takes place on Friday 27th November in the Clephan
Building, De Montfort University, Bonners Lane, Leicester (to guarantee
a place, write to (sprice /at/ dmu.acuk))
Registration with tea and coffee - 9-9.20am - Conference close - 3.30pm
(abstracts will be available on the day)
Lunch is provided without charge in the University's Heritage Centre
where participants and delegates can view our new Exhibition on
'Contemporary Protest' (programme follows, and below that the
overarching rationale for the event)

* Media Discourse Group - Chair, Stuart Price - Leicester Media School -
Head, Jason Lee

Cultures of Denial
/Media Discourse Group/
27th November 2015
Clephan Building, Bonners Lane, Leicester: 0.01 and 3.03

9am - Registration/Tea and Coffee - 9.20 Introduction - 3.30pm Close
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/PROGRAMME/
INTRODUCTION - 9.20am: Stuart Price
*KEYNOTE*

9.30am - (Re)Asserting the Past: the Memory Movements vs. Spain's
politics of oblivion - /Ruth Sanz Sabido/
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Power, Dissent and Subculture I
10am - Misrepresenting the Victims: media and police in the Brazilian
favelas - /Fernanda Amaral/
10.30am - Points of transgression: bullying and dissent in subcultural
theory - /Alastair Gordon/
/Tea and Coffee/
Power, Dissent and Subculture II
11.10am - Twitter and the Hashtag 'This is a Coup' - /Max Hanska/
  11.40am - Unlikely Bedfellows: the Media and the Communist Party in
West Bengal - /Indrani Lahiri/

12 noon - lunch in the Heritage Centre (Exhibition - 'Contemporary
Protest')

Discourse, Government Policy and Activism
1pm - Defining Activists as Terrorists: UK Government Discourse on
Extremism - /Ben Harbisher/
1.30pm - Civil Rights and Government Cuts: the ILA and the DSA -
/Margaret Montgomerie/
Conspiracy, Denial and Sectarianism
2pm - Conspiracy Theories: cultivating denial - /Nagham Naddour/
2.30pm - Sectarian Rhetoric in the Iraqi Media - /Ahmed Bahiya /
3pm - Child Abuse Scandals - /Jason Lee/
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3.30PM - CONFERENCE CLOSE

The current period in the history of Western Europe, and other regions
identified as having an 'advanced' social order, has been marked by the
imposition of economic austerity. This fiscal and social regime,
associated with neo-liberal practices, has created headlines across the
globe. One prominent feature of this news coverage has been the growth
of protest movements: these social eruptions have succeeded in
highlighting economic injustice. Yet, at the same time, parallel
objections, based on deep-rooted and long established resistance to
other forms of public offence, have risen to the surface.
Often assigned to the category of 'subjective' forms of resistance,
campaign groups formed to support the victims of abuse and
discrimination, those organised to fight sexism and racism, and those
devoted to recovering the memory of those who disappeared under
fascistic dictatorships, share one outstanding feature with their
counterparts in the 'new' protest movements: the fact that they
articulate dissatisfaction with what are often described as 'elite
social actors'. Rather than understand social and political offence as a
set of random occurrences, some critics of injustice identify the
/systemic /nature of their predicament and, as a consequence, attack the
silence of those institutions that they believe continue to protect the
'historic' crimes of the powerful. Above all, they wish to draw
attention to the suffocating influence of 'cultures of denial'.

Stuart Price
Professor of Media and Political Discourse

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