[ecrea] one-day conference on Race and the Cultural Industries, Leeds, September 2011

*Race and the Cultural Industries*
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

Wednesday 14th Sept 2011
Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds,

Call for Papers

This conference will explore issues of race, the cultural industries and 
cultural production. Following Greg Dyke's famous comment that the BBC 
is 'hideously white' there has been an increasing recognition of how 
non-whites are marginalised in the media - both in terms of 
participation and portrayal. Indeed, in recent years there have been 
numerous initiatives launched across the cultural sector that have made 
efforts to increase and encourage participation from minority 
communities. Yet tensions remain regarding social and cultural barriers 
to entry as well as critical issues to do with the representation of 
non-white groups. The aim of the conference is to go beyond policy 
debates and think more critically about the media and identity, and the 
cultural politics of race in the West.

*Race and the Cultural Industries* is an interdisciplinary conference 
and welcomes papers based on research on all sectors of the media, from 
news to entertainment, taken from the UK or more international contexts. 
It seeks to encourage participation from cultural practitioners as well 
as scholars in order to create a dialogue between research, policy and 
practice.

We welcome papers in anything related to the topic of race and the 
cultural industries, amongst which might be the following:
*	Race and the politics of representation
*	The media, multiculturalism and citizenship
*	Cultural policy and subsidising culturally diverse arts
*	The production of Black and Asian popular culture
*	Islamophobia and the reporting/representation of the 'War on Terror'
*	Institutional racism in the cultural industries
*	Audience development and issues of marketing and distributing 
culturally diverse arts
*	Diasporic media practice
*	'Glass ceilings' and the politics of quotas and diversity initiatives
*	New media, race and identity

To submit an abstract (300 words) please email (a.saha /at/ leeds.ac.uk). 
Deadline for abstracts is 8th July 2011.

Confirmed speakers include:
Tanika Gupta, MBE - Playwright and screenwriter
Mykaell Riley - Director of Centre for Black Music Research, Ex-Steel 
Pulse member and black music historian
Jason Toynbee - Open University
David Hesmondhalgh - University of Leeds
Mark Banks - Open University	
Sarita Malik - Brunel University
Ash Sharma - University of East London
Sanjay Sharma - Brunel University


David Hesmondhalgh
Professor of Media and Music Industries
Head of the Institute of Communications Studies
University of Leeds

webpage: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/d.j.hesmondhalgh
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