[ecrea] CFP: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London

Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in 
Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London

http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/

Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY

Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary 
postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore 
cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating 
Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created, 
cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also 
cultures of creative work and play.

Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and 
culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and 
historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this 
conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, 
subjectivity, the spatial, technology and contemporary media.

Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited 
on themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as:

Power and cultural politics
Identity and representation
Media and mediation
Digital cultures, new media, and media futures
Cultures and change
Popular culture
Contested and counter cultures
Art and artistic practice
Cultural labour and industries
Territorial and spatial cultures
Globalisation and transnational cultures
Cultural and media research methodologies

Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation 
formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to (cmci-conference /at/ kcl.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(cmci-conference /at/ kcl.ac.uk)> by the 28th of March. Decisions on 
submissions will be sent by the 17th of April.

For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew ((jeremy.matthew /at/ kcl.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(jeremy.matthew /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>) or Photini Vrikki 
((photini.vrikki /at/ kcl.ac.uk) <mailto:(photini.vrikki /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>), and please 
check our website at 
http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/