[ecrea] Call for Abstracts: Nation Branding and the Creative Industries: What nation? What people?,What synergies?

Final Call for Abstracts

Nation Branding and the Creative Industries: What nation? What people?
What synergies?

We warmly invite you to submit your abstract to the cross-disciplinary
international colloquium: Nation Branding and the Creative Industries:
What nation? What people? What synergies?
at Aarhus University, 22 - 23 September 2016. Participants are asked to
send a 500 word abstract and a short bio by 15th April 2016. We welcome
contributions from diverse fields such as media studies, brand
management and destination marketing, intercultural and global
communication studies, and tourism and travel studies.

Conference concept:

Nation branding prevails as a contested research domain that challenges
both practitioners and researchers to define, question and illustrate
contemporary transformations in the reputation of a country and its
people. Historically, governments have assumed control over nation
branding in strategic partnerships with national companies and agencies.
Acknowledging the significance of managerial approaches to branding -
strategic planning, product development, image positioning and efficient
marketing, we argue that these practices are increasingly transformed by
and entangled with for example, demographic changes, market
transformations and the global circulation of creative industrial
resources. In particular, we are witnessing novel constellations of
partnerships and collaborations resulting in creative products that act
as symbolic ammunition in nation branding. These novel constellations
co-produce new dynamics and unpredictable modes of interaction across
borders. What are the intended and the unintended consequences of these?
Another area of change lies in the reconfigurations in the idea of the
nation, which has historically assumed the singularity of ëone nation,
one peopleí. This issue is well recognized to be highly problematic in
the context of global flows of capital, ideas and images, and
large-scale transnational migration that disrupt ideal perceptions of
the nation as a political and economic unity. It is no longer crystal
clear what people or what symbols are embedded in (or excluded from)
nation branding. So, what does it mean to brand a nation? And what does
it take to brand a nation in a global context increasingly characterized
by a crowding of new actors who are willingly or unwilling entangled in
branding endeavours?

Particular areas of interest:

This international colloquium considers these two areas of
transformation - new constellations of partnerships/collaborators and
transnational flows - with specific focus on the role of the creative
industries in the processes of nation branding. Creative industries are
understood in their widest sense and cover for example, television and
film, music, theatre, fashion, food, advertising, design and
architecture. We welcome abstracts that reflect completed empirical and
conceptual work as well as works and thoughts in progress. These could
discuss the following (but are not limited to):

What novel forms of partnerships and collaborations are related to
nation branding? What sorts of ideological, economic and organizational
logics drive these partnerships?

What types of new symbols, products and events characterize contemporary
nation branding? How are they produced and negotiated?

How has the role of the creative industries in nation branding changed
through history?

How do locally embedded creative industries negotiate the tension of
serving domestic as well as non-domestic stakeholders?

What are the similarities and differences between the related concepts
of nation branding, state branding, place branding, city branding or
destination branding?

How successful have recent developments in the idea of
country-of-originí been to address contemporary transformations in
nation branding?

Practical information:

This colloquium is designed to provide an exploratory space where
practitioners and researchers can gather to map and talk about
contemporary challenges and potential benefits in the practices and
thinking of nation branding. The colloquium comprises lectures, coffee
table talks and panel discussions. Confirmed speakers at this stage
include Erlend Høyersten, director of ARoS. Publication opportunities
are being explored.

There is no participation fee and all meals (dinner on Thursday and
coffee/tea/lunch on both days) for presenters will be covered by the
convenors. Participants will have to pay for their own travel and
accommodation.

For further information and to send abstracts please contact:

Please send a 500 word abstract to Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen
((ucj /at/ bcom.au.dk)) and Szilvia Gyimóthy ((gyimothy /at/ cgs.aau.dk)) by 20th
April 2016.

Co-convenors:

What makes Danish TV drama travel? 2014 - 2018, Danish Council for
Independent Research
Department of Business Communication, Aarhus University
School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University
Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University




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