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Dear colleagues,
I am forwarding this on behalf of Dr Robert Fisher.
Yours truly, George
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George Ferzoco
Lecturer and Director of Italian Studies
School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester,
University Road, LEICESTER LE1 7RH, UNITED KINGDOM
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Transformations in Politics, Culture and Society: Media Perspectives
Munich, Germany
Friday 7th - Saturday 8th December 2001
Call for Papers
(please cross-post where appropriate)
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to
integrate
the study of transformations in politics, culture, and society with the
analysis
of key media - for example, art and art history, cinema and film,
literature
and poetry, music, newspapers, and television and radio.
Papers, presentations, and short surveys are invited on issues related
to any
of the following themes;
* dissolution, liberation, reconstruction; political, and economic
rejuvenation
* invasion, resistance, revolution
* coalitions, governments, social reform, and the presentation of
political agendas
* state control of media; political mass communication, election
campaigns, lobby
groups; propaganda; fringe movements; pressure groups
* the place of street drama, posters, graffiti
* the importance of land; territory; boundaries; rural/urban; land
redistribution
* education, student rebellions, and the role of the
intelligentsia
* cultural revolutions: status of women, feminism, sexual freedom;
representations
of gender, ethnicity, sexuality; pornography
* exposure of labour issues; exposure of class issues
* cultural difference and otherness; immigration and immigrants
* international confrontation; the role and influence of the
military
* the impact of globalisation
* third world issues; global responsibility; public awareness;
ecological issues
* medical and social issues in film - for example, drugs, aids,
euthanasia
* role of religion and religious institutions
* role and influence of the United States
* influence of new technologies; multimedia industries, internet,
www, cyberspace
* accessibility to data, information, knowledge; the fate of
intellectual property.
Control of knowledge; anonymity; privacy
* the role of the law and legal processes; regulation and
legislation; appeal
systems
* market economies; monopolies and mergers; control of
multinationals
Papers will be considered on any related theme, writer, book or film.
300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 19th October 2001. Full draft
papers
should be submitted by Friday 16th November 2001.
The conference is the first in a series of annual research projects, run
under
the general banner 'Probing the Boundaries', and sponsored by Learning
Solutions.
It aims to create working 'encounter' groups between people of differing
perspectives,
disciplines, professions, and contexts. The project is to be supported
by an
e-mail discussion group, threaded forum board, e-journal, and dedicated
publication
series.
Selected papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be
published
in themed volumes.
For further details and information, please contact: Dr Rob Fisher,
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or see http://www.learning-solutions.org/ptbt1.htm for further
information.
Dr Rob Fisher
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