[ecrea] CFP - Eurovision as Television

As a key element of the activities for the Eurovision Research Network 
(ERN) coinciding with the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, Macromedia 
University for Media and Communication (MHMK) and Hanover University of 
Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH) are hosting a symposium on Thursday 12 
May at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, University of Applied Sciences in 
Düsseldorf, Germany.

This is an open call for presentations and papers for this symposium 
focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest as a Television Event.

Researchers working in any discipline are invited present their work on 
the Eurovision Song Contest, with special emphasis on aspects of the 
event that relate to television studies. Some of the questions we’re 
interested in addressing include, but are not limited to:

 # how has the Eurovision Song Contest developed as a television event
   since the 1950s?
 # what television legacies does the Eurovision Song Contest feed from
   and/or into across Europe and beyond?
 # how have other televised song contests been influenced by the
   Eurovision Song Contest and what impact do other televised music and
   talent shows have on it?
 # what are the dimensions of the relationship between national
   broadcasters and the recorded music industry in an era when digital
   downloads have became a major format for music distribution?
 # how significant is the use of televoting in growing the Eurovision
   Song Contest audience, particularly in relation to other television
   shows that use televoting?
 # what does the future hold for the Eurovision Song Contest as
   television and the internet continue to move closer to each other as
   media?
 # how do Eurovision Song Contest fans add value to the television
   event, particularly when pan-European telecommunication has been
   decentralized through the Internet?

The symposium will also include a special panel invited guests from the 
German broadcasting industry to discuss various topical aspects of the 
Eurovision Song Contest. This part of the event will be in German; the 
rest of the symposium will be in English.

*To participate in this symposium, please send a brief abstract (100-200 
words) and a two-sentence bio note to Toni Sant 
<mailto:(t.sant /at/ hull.ac.uk)> and Irving Wolther <mailto:(wolther /at/ phonos.de)> 
by Monday 25 April 2011. You should also outline your technical needs 
for the presentation, if any.
*
Selected paper/presentations will be notified by 1 May 2011. A full 
schedule for the symposium will be published along with details of other 
ERN events in Düsseldorf on the Eurovision Research Network website one 
week before the event. http://www.eurovisionresearch.net

/As with all other ERN activities, there will be no entry charge or 
registration fee for this symposium./