WORKSHOP - CALL FOR PAPERS
DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND MEDIA SECTION - European
Communication Research and Education Association
Two-day workshop: Diasporas, Migration and Media: Crossing Boundaries, New
Directions
November 6-7 2009
Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Co-hosted by Nottingham Trent University and
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Studying the relationship between diasporas and
the media presents several challenges and issues
that are at the core of humanities, social
sciences, anthropology, and cultural and media studies.
In the last two decades, an increase in the
number of theories and amount of empirical
research in the field, with topics ranging from
Diaspora, mobility, migration, ethnicity,
cosmopolitanism, postcolonialism, identity
politics, representation, and practices of media
production and consumption, have enhanced our
understanding of the everyday lives of Diasporas and migrants.
Through this process, the area of Diaspora,
migration and media has evolved to embrace
different theoretical and methodological
perspectives, resulting in a plethora of work,
and as a result, consolidating its position as
an important area of investigation.
On the other hand, any emerging canon needs to
be criticized and challenged if the field is to
retain its dynamism. In addition, the
increasingly vocal critiques against
multiculturalism give rise to defensive writing:
is it time to develop more positive and forceful lines of enquiry.
The aim of this workshop, then is to address the
state-of-the-art in the field by inviting
colleagues ? academics, non-academics,
researchers and PhD students - to map the
diverse areas of investigation and/or present
ongoing empirical and theoretical work that
might offer a critique as well as point out new directions in the field.
We invite abstracts (500 words) that address the
following themes, but would be happy to consider
proposals which fall outside of them:
The local/global diasporic cultural experiences
Dynamics of migration and memory
Dynamics of Representation, discourse and language
Subjectivity, emotion and identity
Diaspora, youth and media
Diasporic Audiences
Diaspora and Queer theory
Visual Cultures and Diasporas/Migrants
Music and Diasporas
Cultural Citizenship
Cultural policy and Diaspora
Web 2.0, social media and Diasporas: what are
they doing for Diasporas and minorities?
The backlash against multiculturalism and/in the media
Diasporic/minority media: what is new?
Urban environments and multicultural encounters
Diasporic generations, communication and media
The deadline for submissions is 16 June 2009.
Registration fee: £50
For further information please contact:
<mailto:(olga.bailey /at/ ntu.ac.uk)>(olga.bailey /at/ ntu.ac.uk)
(sophia.smithers /at/ ntu.ac.uk)
Dr. Olga Guedes Bailey
Programme Leader MA Media and Globalisation/
Nottingham Trent University
School of Arts and Humanities
Institute of Cultural Analysis
Clifton Campus
Clifton Lane
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Nottingham
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