[ecrea] CAMEo Annual Conference 12-14th September, 2018

*Save the Date: CAMEo Annual Conference 12-14^th September 2018, 
Leicester, UK.*

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*Care in the Media and Cultural Industries*

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*Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Bev Skeggs*

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The media, arts and cultural industries present a positive image of good 
and fulfilling work whilst the artistic products of those industries are 
often imbued with moral and cultural value. Yet, we have become 
increasingly aware of the inequalities and injustices integral to these 
industries. These include the ways in which opportunities to participate 
in such work are unequally distributed, and how the material and 
immaterial rewards of doing so are unevenly spread, socially, as well as 
geographically, at national and global scales.  Arts, cultural and media 
industry work has been further tarnished by recent and high profile 
revelations concerning the systemic abuses suffered by cultural workers 
from within powerful organisations which in turn must encourage us to 
reflect upon on the lasting legacies of the objects of this cultural 
work. Far from being ‘good’, work in culture, media and the arts 
increasingly appears as damaging, and divested of care or concern for 
others.

The second interdisciplinary CAMEo conference therefore focuses on the 
issues of *_care, concerns and ethics_ in the cultural and media 
economies.* It foregrounds four key questions:

  * What are the /sources/ of the different inequalities, injustices and
    harms in cultural and media industries?
  * In what ways do /cultural objec/ts and /texts /work to intervene in,
    challenge or reproduce social injustices, abuses and harms?
  * How can the /emotions /and /intimacies /in cultural work be
    harnessed to enhance the debates and frameworks for improving social
    justice across the cultural and media industries?
  * What forms of /community/, /social connection/ or /organizing/ might
    offer spaces of consolation, relief and opposition to damaging work?
We hope you want to join us in exploring these issues, look out for more 
information about speakers and registration very soon.


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