[ecrea] Call For Papers “Constructing” Middle East. Ankara University

Call For Papers “Constructing” Middle East: Media, Ideology and Culture

Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 March 2015

Conference Organized by the Faculty of Communication, Ankara University

Date: 22-23 October 2015

Venue: Ankara University

Keynote Speaker: Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan

Founded in 1965 as the first faculty of communication in Turkey and well 
known with its unconventional and progressive academic tradition , this 
year Faculty of Communication of Ankara University celebrates its 50th 
anniversary. In the honor of its anniversary, Faculty of Communication 
is organizing a two days international conference. The focus of the 
conference “Constructing” Middle East: Media, Ideology and Culture will 
be media in the making of social struggles and power configurations in 
the Middle East. Particularly with the impetus of unfolding events such 
as Gezi Protests, “Arab Spring”, Palestine and Israeli conflict, and 
civil war in Syria, the Middle East has become a region that almost 
everyone "knows" and is felt obliged to know something about. On the one 
hand, global media has played a central role in the construction of 
stereotypical and essentialist representations of the Middle East. 
Accordingly, the region and its publics are represented as culturally 
defined by Islam, strongly anti-Western, and susceptible to 
authoritarianism as well as terrorism. On the other hand, media 
technologies have been utilized by the masses to influence and sometimes 
change the course of events in this one of the most dynamic regions of 
the world. Therefore this conference approaches media as sites of social 
and political struggles from a historical perspective. This conference 
also seeks to discuss those issues where mainstream media deliberately 
avoid to cover, diminish their significance or remain silent. We welcome 
papers from scholars and media practitioners that engage critically with 
the issues that may include, but are not limited to:



Power Relations, Social Conflicts and Media

Gender and media in Middle East

Media and the Coverage of “Terrorism”

Representation of Islam in Conventional and New Media

Islamism and Islamist Media

Freedom of Expression and  (Self)Censorship in Middle East

Nationalism, National/Ethnic/Secterian Identities and Media in Middle East

Property Relations and Media in Middle East

Imperialism, Colonialism and Media in Middle East

The Social Impacts of the Transformation of Communication Technologies

Social movements and media

Satirical Press and Opposition in Middle East

Uprisings, Revolts and Media

The Problems of Journalism in Middle East

Reception, audiences and Public Opinion in Middle East

Representation of Middle East in Cinema and Literature

Visual Culture and Middle East

Public diplomacy

Images of the Middle East in Media



The conference invites proposals devoted to comparative perspectives on 
media-related
issues, empirical case studies as well as papers on theoretical 
approaches that need be
grounded in the Middle East. Disciplines represented include media 
studies, history, political
science, anthropology, sociology, international relations, political 
geography, literature, and related fields.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS
The deadline for abstracts is 30th of March 2015. Successful applicants 
will be notified in April 2015. Abstracts should be 500 words. They must 
be accompanied by the presenter’s name, affiliation, email and postal 
addresses, together with the title of the paper and a 150-word 
biographical note on the presenter. Please send all these items together 
in a single Word file, not as pdf, and give the file and message the 
title ‘ CME ’ followed by your last name. The file should be sent by 
email to the  (cmeilef2015 /at/ gmail.com)

Please note that the official languages of the conference will be 
English and Turkish.

TRAVEL EXPENSES
Participants fund their own travel and accommodation expenses. Limited 
numbers of advanced PhD students will be funded for accommodation.


PUBLICATION
There will be various openings for publication of selected conference 
papers, which will be discussed further after the conference.

Proposals (500 words) should be sent before the 30th of March 2015.

15th of April 2015: proposals selection




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Prof. Mine Gencel Bek
Department of Journalism
Faculty of Communication
Ankara University

Prof. Dr. Mine Gencel Bek
Ankara Üniversitesi Iletisim Fakültesi
Gazetecilik Bölümü
http://ilef.ankara.edu.tr/cv/Mine-Gencel-Bek/

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