[ecrea] Multiplicities Conference, 16th/17th June, Manchester

>Please note details of the following conference:
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>Multiplicities: World Cinema, Globalised Media and Cosmopolitan Cultures
>
>Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC)
>Manchester University
>http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/
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>June 16th and 17th 2008
>The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
>
>
>Co-organised by:
>- Jackie Stacey, Research Institute for 
>Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) University of Manchester
>- Keith Wagner, Film Media, University of Rhode Island
>
>Co-sponsored by:
>Screen
>The Cultural Theory Institute, The University of Manchester
>The Centre for Screen Studies, The University of Manchester
>CIDRA, The University of Manchester
>Film Media, University of Rhode Island
>
>The philosophical, cultural and political 
>effects of contemporary cosmopolitanism have never been
>more contested. Its position within academic 
>disciplines, from international relations to film
>studies and across an increasingly 
>interdisciplinary network, calls for a consideration of its
>significance in understanding globalised media 
>cultures. A justification for cosmopolitanism's
>polysemic perspective is that it challenges the 
>hegemonic and ethnocentric world-view
>reproduced through contemporary mainstream media 
>and cinema. Yet the question of
>cosmopolitanism's global situatedness, so 
>relevant in the work of Craig Calhoun and David Held,
>generates new areas of scholarship concerning 
>the positioning of cosmopolitan theory in relation
>to ubiquitous forms of film and media. Ulrich 
>Beck argues against the idea that
>cosmopolitanization [is] simply a new word for 
>what used to be called globalization? but what
>how might we understand such a distinction in 
>the context of film and media cultures? How might
>the changing meaning of world cinema connect to 
>a growing concern with cosmopolitan cultures?
>This conference will interrogate the 
>intersection of cosmopolitanism, global media cultures and
>world cinema, prompting a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and debate.
>
>Anchored in these discursive terms, 
>Multiplicities addresses the following questions:
>
>-How is contemporary cosmopolitanism relevant to media and film
>studies today?
>- To what extent does world cinema operate as a cosmopolitan category?
>- How are public communication and moving image 
>practices re-created within cosmopolitan
>cultures?
>- How are new relations of sameness and 
>difference configured in the production, circulation and
>regulation of cosmopolitan cultures?
>- Can cosmopolitanism transform the mediation of 
>human rights and through what cultural
>forms?
>- How has the category of world cinema entered 
>global relations of production and consumption
>and what is the place of cosmopolitism in such transformations?
>- What is the place of migration and diaspora in 
>the circulation of transnational forms of cultural
>production?
>- What modes of belonging or displacement are 
>produced through the notion of cosmopolitan
>cultures?
>
>Screening planned at Manchesters Cornerhouse, June 16th:
>
>Invited Speakers include:
>Pheng Cheah, (Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley)
>Craig Calhoun  (NYU)
>Shohini Chaudhuri (Essex University)
>Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Dehli)
>Gyan Prakash (Princeton University and RICC, Manchester)
>Lucia Nagib (Leeds University)
>Felicia Chan (RICC, Manchester)
>John Leo (University of Rhode Island)
>
>NB: Places are limited so early registration is advised and also discounted
>
>Early Bird Registration Fee, before April 30th
>Academic: £65
>
>Postgraduate: £30
>
>Full Conference Registration Fee, after April 30th
>Academic: £85
>
>Postgraduate: £40
>
>No conference accommodation is being block 
>booked but if you would like further details of
>Manchester hotels or bed and breakfasts near the 
>Oxford Road in Manchester, please email:
>(nasira.asghar /at/ manchester.ac.uk) (available Monday-Wednesday only).
>
>The registration form is attached to this posting.

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