[ecrea] Call for Papers - Living Cultures - Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture - March 2009

> The Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) 
> and the Media Industries Research Centre 
> (<http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=MIRC>MIRC) 
> at the University of Leeds invite papers for a 1½-day conference:
>
> Living Cultures - Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture
>
>
> Date: Monday March 30 (pm) 2009, Tuesday March 31 (full day) 2009
>
> Location: The University of Leeds, UK
>
> Keynote speakers:
> Professor Les Back (Professor, Department of 
> Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of 
> London), author of The Art of Listening (2007) 
> and New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms 
> and Multiculture in Young Lives (1996)
>
> Professor Georgina Born (Professor of Sociology, 
> Anthropology and Music, University of 
> Cambridge), author of Uncertain Vision: Birt, 
> Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (2004) and 
> Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the 
> Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (1995)
>
>
> Conference theme:
> The ever-increasing importance of the cultural 
> to the social brings with it a vital need to 
> investigate the processes implicated in 
> contemporary meaning making, symbolic 
> consumption, production and mediation. Recent 
> scholarship from across the social sciences has 
> sought to take up this challenge by examining 
> the multifariousness of cultural 
> materials-in-use, continuities and ruptures in 
> the production/consumption of culture, the 
> expanded purview of cultural policy and the 
> effects of an expanding 'cultural economy'.
>
> Through its careful attention to the 
> irreducibility of human experience, ethnography 
> has revealed an enduring ability to usefully 
> intervene in debates within these arenas, making 
> explorations into culture and cultural practice 
> a quasi-specialism of ethnographic study. Yet 
> how might 21st century ethnography better attune 
> itself to the opportunities and challenges 
> implied by attempts to understand contemporary 
> culture and cultural experience 'from the 
> inside'? Indeed, what limitations or boundaries 
> are implied by efforts to study different 
> cultural practices through ethnography and what 
> might this mean for ethnography's contribution to social theory?
>
> Contributions are invited from ethnographers 
> willing to reflect on such questions and to 
> share the methodological, substantive and 
> theoretical insights gleaned, as well as the 
> problems encountered, in the course of their own ethnographies of culture.
>
> The conference should be of interest to scholars 
> and particularly ethnographers from within 
> sociology and social policy, media and 
> communications studies, cultural studies, 
> social/cultural anthropology and other allied disciplines.
>
> Proposal deadline: abstracts (250 words max) 
> should be sent, by Tuesday 20th January 2009, to the organising committee at:
>
> email: <mailto:(ics-conferences /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>(ics-conferences /at/ leeds.ac.uk)
>
> or mail to: Dr Eleri Pound, Living Cultures 
> Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, 
> 16 Clarendon Place, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
>
> Organising committee: Dr Mark Rimmer (convenor), 
> Professor David Hesmondhalgh, Dr Chris Paterson, 
> Dr Eleri Pound, Anna Zoellner, all of the Media 
> Industries Research Centre, University of Leeds.

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