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[ecrea] Call workshop ECREA for DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND MEDIA SECTION

Tue May 19 11:01:02 GMT 2009



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
 George Eliot Building
 Nottingham
 NG11 8NS
 Direct Line: +44 (0) 115 848 3364
 switchboard:             941 8418
 Fax:                     8486331


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