From: Lee Salter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 March 2004 10:17
To: j.armitage
Subject: RE:
The Social and Cultural Movements Group,
Edge Hill College, UK
2nd International Conference:
Imaging Social Movements
Plenary Speakers:
Mark Poster (University of California at Irvine)
Author of 'The Second Media Age' and 'Whats the Matter with the Internet?'
Jimmy McGovern (Film Maker, Bloody Sunday)
George McKay (UcLan, UK) author of 'DIY Culture'and 'Senseless Acts of
Beauty'
Thursday 1st July to Saturday 3rd July 2004
Following the success of its 2002 conference: Making Social Movements: The
British Marxist Historians, the Social Movements Group is organising a 2nd
International Conference for Summer 2004, exploring the theme of the
construction of images, representations and articulations of social
movements.
The effectiveness of social movements has always relied not only upon the
political activity and its theoretical conception, but also upon its
cultural representation and aesthetics. The changing media, cultural and
technological landscape has transformed the means and media by which social
movements can create and contest their 'image', and how others create and
contest images of them. This conference aims to bring together social
movement researchers across the social sciences and humanities in
considering questions of conception, process and outcomes in the imaging
social movements - past, present and future. Indicative strands include:
Ø Social Movements and the Internet
Ø Social Movements and Popular Film
Ø The Mechanics of Representation
Ø Narratives/Literatures and Social Movements
Ø Media construction of Opposition
Ø The Documentary Tradition
Ø Performance of Subversion
Ø Social Movements and Popular TV
Ø Imaging Resistance and Cultural Politics
We welcome traditional simple attendance, papers, posters and less
traditional audio-visual presentations. Send proposals with abstract of
150-200 words by 31st March 2004 to: Roger Spalding/Lee Salter, Edge Hill
College, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 4QP. UK. email: [log in to unmask] Web
site:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/Research/smg/International_SMG_Conference.htm
Lee Salter
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Edge Hill College,
St Helen's Road
Ormskirk,
Lancashire
L39 4QP
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 01695 584374
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