[eccr] OFF-SCREEN SPACES CONFERENCE

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>OFF-SCREEN SAPCES: REGIONALISM AND GLOBALISED CULTURES
>AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FILM, TELEVISION AND MEDIA:
>CULTURES AND POLICIES
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>http://www.bftv.ac.uk
>http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osscall2.htm
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>SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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>A conference organised by the AHRB Centre for British Film
>and Television Studies in association with The Centre for
>Media Research, University of Ulster
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>Wednesday 28 - Friday 30 July 2004
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>University of Ulster, Coleraine (Portrush Campus)
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>This major international conference will explore the
>relationship between 'global' popular culture and various
>definitions of 'local' culture. Crucial to an understanding
>of this relationship is the concept of 'the region' as it
>has become reconfigured by global economic and cultural
>forces. Regional cultures exist in relation and in
>opposition to dominant national cultures and interact with
>them in complex and contradictory ways.
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>National cultures are themselves often posited as
>'regional' cultures in opposition to the global and the
>concept of 'critical regionalism' has been canvassed as a
>challenge to global conformity or homogeneity. On the other
>hand, in line with the strategies of multinational
>corporations more generally, multinational software
>manufacturers have divided the global market into 'regions'
>for the purpose of controlling the DVD market. This would
>suggest that, despite the potential of regional cultures to
>offer alternatives to the global market, there is in fact
>nothing intrinsically challenging or radical in the concept
>of the region.
>
>The conference will explore the complex and contradictory
>relationships among the local, the regional, the national
>and the global and assess the implications for both media
>representation and local, national and transnational
>audio-visual policy. Central to discussions will be the
>concept of comparative film studies and a number of papers
>will address the rationale and theoretical implications of
>comparative media research.
>
>The conference also encourages papers that explore the role
>that new ICTs play in shaping regional digital cultures and
>politics. How, for instance, have social movements adopted
>new technologies in order to become organised in ways that
>challenge national borders? What responses have the state
>and supranational entities had to such practices? How have
>new media industries redefined cartographies of production,
>distribution and consumption and what are some of the new
>antagonisms and collaborations that attend such
>socio-technical formations? The conference is interested in
>both theoretical and reflexive empirical responses to
>questions along these lines.
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>PROGRAMME:
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>Confirmed speakers so far include:
>John Tomlinson, Ien Ang, Toby Miller, John Hill, Ned
>Rossiter, Valentina Vitali, Desmond Bell, Máire Messenger
>Davies and Paul Willemen.
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>Conference sessions will include the following themes:
>Regional Cultures
>Digital Cultures & the role of ICTs
>Ukania and the Cultural Break-up of Britain
>National Cinemas
>Irish Cinema (and other small Anglophone Cinemas)
>Globalised Hollywood
>Comparative Film/Media Studies
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>There are two special plenary sessions:
>Regional Policy and the BBC Charter Renewal Debate (with
>Pat Loughrey, Director, BBC Regions and Nations) Four Years
>of the Film Council (with John Hill from the Film Council)
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>CONFERENCE FEES:
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>Fees (with two nights accommodation)    £130.00
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>Fees only                               £90.00
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>Fees include breakfast, tea & coffee, light lunch and
>evening meals on Wednesday and Thursday.
>
>Please note that paper presenters need to register for the
>conference and pay the registration fee.  Cheques made
>payable to University of Ulster
>
>Due date for abstracts: June 11, 2004
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>
>ABSTRACTS AND ENQUIRIES TO:
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>Janet Mackle                            Martin Mcloone
>Conference Co-ordinator                 Conference Organiser
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>Cultural Development
>Centre for Media Research
>Tel: 028 7032 4683
>University of Ulster
>Coleraine
>Northern Ireland
>BT52 1SA
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>e-mail: (spacesconf /at/ ulster.ac.uk)
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>Registration form can be downloaded from:
>http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osscall2.htm
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>
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>The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) funds
>postgraduate and advanced research within the UK's higher
>education institutions and provides funding for museums,
>galleries and collections that are based in, or attached
>to, HEIs within England. The AHRB supports research within
>a huge subject domain - from 'traditional' humanities
>subjects, such as history, modern languages and English
>literature, to music and the creative and performing arts.
>The AHRB makes awards on the basis of academic excellence
>and is not responsible for the views or research outcomes
>expressed by its award holders.
>
>Hosted by Birkbeck College, the AHRB Centre for British
>Film and Television Studies - www.bftv.ac.uk - is funded
>for a period of five years under the AHRB Research Centres
>Scheme and is a partnership of eight institutions.
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>AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies
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>http://www.bftv.ac.uk
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>Tel: 020 7631 6137
>Fax: 020 7631 6136
>Email: (centre /at/ bftv.ac.uk)

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