[eccr] Call for Papers -> "Central and Eastern European Media under Dictatorial Rule in the 1940s and 1950s"

>Dear colleagues,
>
>We would like to invite you to participate in the international conference
>'Central and Eastern European Media under Dictatorial Rule in the 1940s
>and 1950s'.
>
>The conference is aimed at fostering interdisciplinary discussion about
>different aspects of media in dictatorships. Thus, we encourage social
>scientists, media analysts, historians, linguists, and others to
>participate.
>
>We look forward to get proposal for a paper in October 2004.
>Information and registration:  (2005conference /at/ jrnl.ut.ee)
>
>Maarja Lõhmus
>____________________
>dr. Maarja Lõhmus
>Dept of Journalism and Communication
>Ylikooli 18, Tartu 50900, Estonia
>Tel.: +372 5/ 52 55055
>Fax: + 372 7/ 376 355
>Email: (maarjal /at/ ut.ee)
>____________________
>
>
>Call for Papers
>Central and Eastern European Media under Dictatorial Rule in the 1940s 
>and 1950s
>International Conference
>22 ­ 25 April 2005
>Tartu University, Estonia
>
>The conference is aimed at fostering interdisciplinary discussion about
>different aspects of media in dictatorships. Thus, we encourage social
>scientists, historians, linguists, literature experts and others to
>participate. Regional as well as comparative studies are welcomed.
>In the 1940s and 1950s, Central and Eastern European media were controlled
>by authoritarian or dictatorial regimes amongst them the Third Reich and
>Stalins Soviet Union. Additionally, war time censorship and occupational
>regimes also played a role.
>
>At the moment the following topics are of special interest, but we are
>open to other aspects as well:
>- theoretical issues
>- different roles in the media (overt and covert)
>- media institutions and regulations (rules and norms for media)
>- conflict and tension in the media (institution, texts, processes)
>- propaganda
>- media as a channel of information
>- systems of censorship
>- paradigmatic discourses of media-representation
>- construction of meaning in the media (including the image of the enemy,
>representation of truth in media, etc.)
>- different media focuses: political versus cultural
>- roles of the media audience
>- attitudes of the population towards the media
>
>The presentation of each paper should not extend beyond 20 minutes. The
>papers are discussed after presentation and at the end of each session
>there will follow a broader discussion of the theme. Selected papers will
>be published later in a conference volume.
>
>The location of the conference is Tartu University, the traditional
>educational centre of Estonia, 150 minutes by bus from the Estonian
>capital Tallinn. The conference is organised by the Centre for the Soviet
>Study, Tartu University.
>
>  Please send your proposal for a paper (250-300 words) and a short CV no
>later than 1 October 2004, by e-mail to the local organisers Dr. Maarja
>Lõhmus and Dr. Olaf Mertelsmann.
>e-mail: (2005conference /at/ jrnl.ut.ee)
>Contact: Centre for the Soviet Study
>Lossi 3 ­ 409,  51000 Tartu  Estonia
>

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