[ecrea] CFP: Mediating Cultural Work: Texts, Objects and Politics

CFP REMINDER: ABSTRACT DEADLINE 3^RD MAY

**With apologies for cross-posting**

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I am delighted to inform you of the dates and CFP for CAMEo, Research 
Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, first conference:

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*CFP: Mediating Cultural Work: Texts, Objects and Politics*

Conference of the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies

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*6-8 September 2017, Stamford Court, University of Leicester, UK*

*Keynote Speakers:*

·*Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) *author of ‘Be Creative’

·*Jack Linchuan Qiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) *author of 
‘Goodbye iSlave’

·*John Beck (Westminster) & Matthew Cornford (Brighton)*co-authors of 
‘The Art School and the Culture Shed’

Others confirmed to date: */Mark Banks, Eleonora Belfiore, Bridget 
Conor, Doris Ruth Eikhof,  Chris Land, Jo Littler, Kate Oakley, Dave 
O’Brien, Martin Parker, Keith Randle, Anamik Saha, Jennifer Smith 
Maguire, Claire Squires, Helen Wood, David Wright./*

The expansion of *cultural work *–  understood as activities of 
production in the creative and cultural industries, media and the arts – 
has been accompanied by a plethora of *texts, discourses and 
representations* about such work, as well as a whole range  of policy 
narratives, descriptions and manifestos designed to specify and define 
the goods and qualities such work provides. Yet more critical accounts 
have also emerged to challenge the ways in which cultural and media work 
is mediated, as well as *organised, managed and experienced* – 
subverting common-sense understandings and more upbeat and hegemonic 
narratives.

At the same time, *new platforms and technologies of production* are 
shaping the ways in which cultural work is undertaken (and understood) 
as a meaningful social practice, while the cultural industries 
themselves continue to produce *expressive objects, goods and 
commodities* that manifest and mediate the labour that has gone into 
their production, suggesting ways of consuming or engaging with them as 
‘crafted’ objects or as symbolic forms.

This interdisciplinary conference therefore focuses on how *cultural 
work and production is mediated* - in terms of text, image, discourse, 
narrative, policy, curriculum, ideology and fantasy, as well as through 
technology, materially, and in objective form. We are especially 
interested to discuss the *politics of mediation* – and to outline 
progressive challenges to an ‘expressive’ and ‘creative’ work that 
continues to be blighted by *social exclusivity, inequality and injustice.*

*_We invite submissions of individual papers or panels (of up to four 
papers)_**from across the social sciences, arts and humanities, and from 
industry practitioners, that relate to any of the following themes:*

  * *Policies and Programmes:*what ‘official’ technologies, texts and
    discourses are currently used to define and describe work and
    working lives in the cultural, creative and media industries; what
    logics, rationalities, data, ideologies and imaginaries are in
    evidence? What knowledges or truths might they affirm or reject? How
    do such policies travel, translate or reproduce?
  * *Texts and Representations:*how is cultural, creative and media work
    represented in popular media such as film, television, art or music
    – or in the texts, programmes and practices of management and
    organisations, or in systems of training and education? What
    possibilities are enabled or constrained by popular and professional
    discourses on the cultural industries?  What links the symbolic and
    the economic in such cases?
  * *Objects and Practices:*how are cultural industry objects and goods
    constructed, negotiated, and legitimated by mediating institutions
    and individuals? How do specific industries (such as craft, design,
    fashion, food and drink, TV, music, journalism, publishing) generate
    working practices that help mediate new social relations of cultural
    production and consumption? What visibilities and invisibilities are
    occasioned by a focus (or fetish) on the cultural or crafted object?
  * *Agency and Action:*how are struggles to define and deliver a more
    equal, equitable and just cultural and media workplace taking shape,
    in discourse and action? What structures, entities or agencies are
    helping to mediate, shape or enact a progressive (or reactionary)
    politics of cultural and media work?

Please submit abstracts for papers or panels to by *Wednesday 3rd May 
2017* – for details of how to submit go to www.le.ac.uk/cameo2017 
<http://www.le.ac.uk/cameo2017> Please email all submissions to 
(cameoconference2017 /at/ leicester.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(cameoconference2017 /at/ leicester.ac.uk)?subject=cameo%20conference%202017>

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*Decision on submissions:*Mid-May

*Conference fee: *£185 (£100 for students) includes all lunches, evening 
meals and refreshments.

Registration and Accommodation Options available from 19th May

Informal enquiries and further details (cameo /at/ leicester.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(cameo /at/ leicester.ac.uk)?subject=cameo%20conference>


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