[ecrea] symposium in Leeds, 14 September: Race and the Cultural Industries

*Race and the Cultural Industries* – Wednesday 14th September 2011,
Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds

A one-day conference organised by the Media Industries Research Centre
(MIRC), University of Leeds, in conjunction with the MeCCSA Race Network
and the ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Temporary Working
Group

Registration now open.

Standard rate = £50.

Concessions (students, retired, unwaged) = £25

Click on the link below to register:

https://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=117&modid=1&compid=1

Deadline for registration is 5th September 2011

For further information please visit the website
(http://www.raceandtheculturalindustries.leeds.ac.uk/) or email Anamik
Saha on

(a.saha /at/ leeds.ac.uk)

Description

The conference explores issues of ‘race’ and the media in the West. The
papers will cover a wide range of issues on ‘race’ and ethnicity in
relation to the cultural industries, from the experience of creative
work, and cultural production, to the representation of multiculture in
the media. Subjects include British jazz and the Black Creative City,
the BBC and the politics of representation; racial struggles for work in
post-civil rights Hollywood, Islamophobia in the news media, and online
technologies, anti-racism and postcolonial communications.

Keynote speakers are

Tanika Gupta, MBE – award-winning playwright and screenwriter

Mykaell Riley – Director of the Centre for Black Music Research, and
ex-member of British reggae band Steel Pulse

Other confirmed speakers include:

Kim Allen (London Metropolitan University), Mark Banks (Open
University), Rinella Cere (Sheffield Hallam University), Lee Edwards
(Manchester Business School), Julie Firmstone (University of Leeds),
David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds), Rupa Huq (Kingston
University), Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester), Keir
Keightley (University of Western Ontario), Sarita Malik (Brunel
University), Chris Paterson (University of Leeds), Eithne Quinn
(University of Manchester), Ash Sharma (University of East London),
Sanjay Sharma (Brunel University), Annelies Thoelen (Hasselt
University), Vera Tolz (University of Manchester), Jason Toynbee (Open
University), Patrizia Zanoni (Hasselt University)

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