[ecrea] Call For Papers - Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism in European Media and Film: Rights, Responsibilities, Representations

Call for Papers



Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism in European Media and Film: Rights, 
Responsibilities, Representations




International Conference

The University of Manchester, UK



23-25 May, 2013



The recent explosion of migration flows across the world, the crisis in 
which established models of multiculturalism find themselves in Europe 
and elsewhere, and the current global financial and economic crisis have 
combined to raise the prominence of issues of ethnicity, race and 
nationalism in most countries. Speeches made in 2011 by Angela Merkel 
and David Cameron, and controversies over the expulsion of gypsies and 
the wearing of religious attire in public places in France, indicate a 
common crisis in European tolerance. Eastern Europe demonstrates similar 
difficulties in managing ethnic diversity in the face of global mass 
population movements, of which the shocking outbreak of racial violence 
in Moscow in 2010 is just one example.



The European media play a crucial role both in exacerbating the tensions 
which inter-ethnic relations arouse (the spread of racial hate language 
and nationalist extremism on the internet; the use of ethnic profiling 
and racial stereotyping in crime reporting), and in fostering 
inter-ethnic cohesion and harmony (national policies on promoting 
diversity and equality in broadcasting).  This conference aims to 
facilitate a cross-cultural, comparative study of the impact of media 
and film on the playing out of the “crisis of multiculturalism” in West 
and East European societies, and to analyse the similarities and 
differences in media and cinematic approaches to ethnic cohesion issues 
throughout Europe.



The conference will address questions such as:


·        -  In what senses are various types of media, including those 
reliant on new communication technologies, aggravating inter-ethnic 
tensions in Europe?


·      -  How serious a threat to social cohesion in European societies 
are extremist websites, blogs and other new media forms of global and 
national provenance?


·        - Are ethnic and racial minorities accorded appropriate rights 
to representation in national broadcasting systems?


·       -To what extent are representations of ethnicity, race and 
nationhood, and the coverage of issues pertaining to ethnic 
cohesion,dependent on national context?


·    - What are the conceptual frames to which journalists and 
film-makers in various European societies resort when covering this area 
and what are their origins and consequences?


·    - How are European broadcasters with national responsibility 
dealing with the rise of the anti-immigration, Islamophobic right on one 
hand, and with the loss of faith in official multicultural policies on 
the other?


·  - What role does non-news broadcasting (drama serials; documentary 
programming; situation comedy; light entertainment genres) play in the 
representational process?


·     - How have cinematic imaginations of national and European 
identity refracted the shifting consensus on values of ethnic diversity?




It is intended that selected papers from the conference will form the 
basis for special issues of one or more prominent journals in the field 
(we already an initial agreement with Europe-Asia Studies)





Please email your proposals (250 words) for papers of up to 20 minutes 
in length and your one-page CVs to the conference organisers (Professors 
Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz) at  
(RRRMediaConference /at/ manchester.ac.uk)  by 30 September 2012.













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