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> From: 	Roza Tsagarousianou
> Reply To: 	Roza Tsagarousianou
> Sent: 	Wednesday, October 4, 2000 3:08 am
> To: 	[log in to unmask]
> Subject: 	call for papers- Colloquium on Diasporic Communications
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Please find below a call for papers for a colloquium on diasporic
> communications to be held in London in September 2001. I hope it is of
> interest to you.
> 
> 
> Call for Papers
> 
> CENTRE for COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION STUDIES ( UNIVERSITY of
> WESTMINSTER) 
> UNIVERSITY of NORTH LONDON 
> EUROPEAN INSTITUTE for COMMUNICATION and CULTURE (EURICOM)
> 
> Diasporic Communications: Transnational & Local  Cross-currents
> 
> London, 5-7 September 2001
> 
> The Centre for Communication and Information Studies of the University of
> Westminster (CCIS) and the University of North London, in association with
> the European Institute for Communication and Culture (Euricom) intends to
> hold a Colloquium on diasporic communication and audiences at the Harrow
> Campus of the University of Westminster in London.
> 
> Although diasporas and globalization are distinct phenomena, the outcome
> of their combination is a potent one. As far as communications are
> concerned, the transnationalization of the media has enhanced and
> intensified the relationship between diasporas and globalization
> processes. Electronic media increasingly link producers and audiences
> across national boundaries and initiate processes of deterritorialization
> and reterritorialization of diasporic identities.  In doing so they set in
> motion processes of reconfiguration of place, space and culture and have a
> considerable impact on the everyday. In this context, established notions
> of the nation-state, of tradition and heritage and of citizenship and
> modes of belonging are challenged and transformed. 
> 
> The Colloquium aims to bring together academics to discuss these processes
> and their broader implications. In keeping with the traditions established
> in Colloquia organised with Euricom, the organisers do not wish to
> prioritise any particular method or approach within the scope of the
> overall topic. We would, however identify the following general themes as
> being particularly interesting to us:
> 
> intersections of the transnational and the local  in diasporic
> communications
> diasporic communications and diasporic identities
> diasporic audiences and diasporic cultural politics
> diasporic cultural production and consumption : the interplay between
> integration, cultural separatism and hybridity
> diasporic cultural practices
> 
> Papers are invited on any of these topics, or upon other issues defined by
> prospective participants. The colloquium organisers intend to pursue
> publication of selected papers presented during the event
> 
> Prospective participants should send abstracts of about 200 words to Dr.
> Roza Tsagarousianou ([log in to unmask]) or Shehina Fazal
> ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible, and in any event by Friday 23
> March 2001. Invitations will be issued by the end of April 2001.
> 
> For more information on the colloquium visit
> http://www.westminster.ac.uk/media/diasporas
> For further information about the European Institute for Communication &
> Culture, and publications from previous colloquia, visit the Euricom
> website at: http://www2.arnes.si/guest/ljjavno1/euricom.html 
> 
> 
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> Dr. Roza Tsagarousianou
> Centre for Communication and Information Studies
> Block J, University of Westminster Northwick Park Campus, Watford Road,
> Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3TP, United Kingdom
> 
> Tel. +44(0)20 7911 5000 ext 4196
> Fax  +44(0)20 7911 5942
> E-mail  [log in to unmask]
> 
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