List readers might be interested in the following conference:
OFF-SCREEN SPACES: REGIONALISM AND GLOBALISED CULTURES AN INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON FILM, TELEVISION AND MEDIA:
CULTURES AND POLICIES
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http://www.bftv.ac.uk
http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osshome.htm
A conference organised by the AHRB Centre for British Film
and Television Studies in association with The Centre for
Media Research, University of Ulster
Wednesday 28 - Friday 30 July 2004
University of Ulster, Coleraine (Portrush Campus)
REGISTER NOW USING THE ATTACHED FORM OR GO TO:
http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osshome.htm
This major international conference will explore the relationship between
‘global’ popular culture and various definitions of ‘local’ culture. Crucial
to an understanding of this relationship is the concept of ‘the region’ as
it has become reconfigured by global economic and cultural forces. Regional
cultures exist in relation and in opposition to dominant national cultures
and interact with them in complex and contradictory ways.
National cultures are themselves often posited as ‘regional’ cultures in
opposition to the global and the concept of ‘critical regionalism’ has been
canvassed as a challenge to global conformity or homogeneity. On the other
hand, in line with the strategies of multinational corporations more
generally, multinational software manufacturers have divided the global
market into ‘regions’ for the purpose of controlling the DVD market. This
would suggest that, despite the potential of regional cultures to offer
alternatives to the global market, there is in fact nothing intrinsically
challenging or radical in the concept of the region.
The conference will explore the complex and contradictory relationships
among the local, the regional, the national and the global and assess the
implications for both media representation and local, national and
transnational audio-visual policy. Central to discussions will be the
concept of comparative film studies and a number of papers will address the
rationale and theoretical implications of comparative media research.
The conference also encourages papers that explore the role that new ICTs
play in shaping regional digital cultures and politics. How, for instance,
have social movements adopted new technologies in order to become organised
in ways that challenge national borders? What responses have the state and
supranational entities had to such practices? How have new media industries
redefined cartographies of production, distribution and consumption and what
are some of the new antagonisms and collaborations that attend such
socio-technical formations? The conference is interested in both theoretical
and reflexive empirical responses to questions along these lines.
KEYNOTE LECTURES AND PLENARY SESSIONS
Wednesday 28 July, 6.00 p.m. LT8
Opening Keynote Lecture:
John Tomlinson: Globalisation and Cultural Identity
It is fair to say that the impact of globalisation in the cultural sphere
has, most generally, been viewed in a pessimistic light. Typically, it has
been associated with the destruction of local cultural identities, victims
of the accelerating encroachment of an homogenised, westernised, consumer
culture. This view, the constituency for which extends from academics to
anti-globalisation activists, tends to interpret globalisation as a seamless
extension of - indeed as a euphemism for - western cultural imperialism.
Whilst not denying the obvious power of globalized capitalism to distribute
and promote its cultural goods in every corner, this paper will suggest a
quite different analysis of the cultural impact of global modernity : that
cultural identity, properly understood, is much more the product of
globalisation than its victim.
Thursday 29 July, 9.15 am, LT8
Keynote Lecture:
Ang, Ien: Changing Meanings of Asia and Asianness in
Contemporary Global Culture
This address will reflect on the multiple and shifting meanings of the term
‘Asian’ in today’s globalising world. It will look especially at the
disjunctures between ‘Asian’ in Asia and ‘Asian’ outside Asia, especially in
the West. The growth of large Asian diasporas in Western countries has
created increasingly prominent discourses of ‘Asian’ identity and culture in
those countries, which diverge significantly from the ways in which the term
‘Asia(n)’ is given meaning within the Asian region itself. Examples will be
drawn from identity politics, popular culture and media consumption.
Thursday, 29 July, 5.00 p.m. LT8
World Premiere Screening
Rebel Frontier (Desmond Bell, 2004, 64 mins.) The latest film from
prize-winning documentary filmmaker, Desmond Bell, deals with Irish and
Finnish opposition to US involvement in the First World War. The story is
told through the eyes of a Dashiell Hammett type Pinkerton Agent spying on
the miners of Butte Montana who strike to halt copper munitions production.
The film is in the style of Bell’s previous prize winning film ‘Hard road to
the Klondike’ - a creative documentary making extensive use of archive
material. The voice-over narration is by celebrated Hollywood actor, Martin
Sheen.
Desmond Bell will attend the screening and answer questions afterwards.
Friday, 30 July, 9.15a.m. LT8
Keynote Lecture:
Toby Miller: The People of the United States Cannot be
Trusted: Globalised Hollywood 2
Friday, 30 July, 2.00p.m. LT8
Panel Discussion:
Film Policy in the UK: Four Years of the Film Council (with David Steele,
Senior Executive Researcher, UK Film Council; Prof. Sylvia Harvey,
University of Lincoln; Prof. John Hill, University of Ulster and member, UK
Film Council and Richard Williams, Director Northern Ireland Television
Commission)
Friday, 30 July, 5.00 p.m. LT8
Closing Keynote Address:
Pat Loughrey, Director, Nations and Regions, BBC:
Local Identity in the Global Village: the BBC’s Regional
Policy
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Caterer, James: ‘Playing the Lottery Twice: the Dual
Nationality of Stella Does Tricks’
Chambers, Ciara: ‘Representing the Local: Newsreel Coverage
of Irish Neutrality in World War 11’
Cooke, Lez: ‘”Regional” British Television Drama in the
1960s and 1970s’
Davis, Amy M: ‘The “Dark Prince” and Dream Women: Walt
Disney and Mid-twentieth Century American Feminism’
Davidson, Kelly: ‘The Hyper North: A Tourist Guide to Northern Ireland’.
de Lannoy, Yuna: ‘Kurosawa’s Russia’
Elsey, Eileen: ‘Distillation: The Short Film as critical
Space’
Flynn, Roddy: ‘Ireland and the New International Division
of Labour’
Guenther, Kathrein, Margaret Dickinson and Sylvia Harvey:
‘Getting Films to Audiences: Aspects of Regional and
National Policy and Practice in the UK’
Hill, Andrew: ‘Northern Ireland and pre-Troubles BBC Drama’
Horrocks, Simon: ‘An American in Hong Kong: The Work of
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia’
Hung, Hsiu - Chin: ‘The Possibility of Regional Cultures:
Intra-Asian TV Drama Flow’
Jackson, Rhona: ‘By Jingo, we’re British: An Exploration of
British Identity in a Time of Regionalism’
Kaewprasert, Oradol: ‘Film in Thailand’
Karpovich, Angelina & Xin Zhang-Stalhi: ‘For Whom the
Lantern Hangs: Raise the Red Lantern across Borders and
Boundaries’
Ko, Mika: ‘Representing Okinawa: Contesting Images in
Contemporary Japanese Cinema’
Langlois, Tony: ‘Music, Images and Technology in Morocco’
Maasilta, Mari: ‘An analysis of Karmen in the Context of
Globalised Cinema Industry and Senegalese Nationalism’
McLaughlin, Greg and Steve Baker: ‘US Imperialism and Media
Studies in Ireland’
Moore, Paul: ‘Laughing through our Ears: James Young and
Sonic Comic Identity in Northern Ireland’
Murphy, Kenneth: ‘Internationalisation, Convergence and
Broadcasting Policy in Ireland’
Porter, Robert: ‘What is political Cinema?’
Roscoe, Jane: ‘Australian Big Brother: The TV Equivalent of the McOz Burger?’
Rossiter, Ned: ‘Regionalism and Comparative Internet
Research: A Technics of Methodology’
Selfe, Melanie: ‘The Role of the Provincial Film Society in
Mediating National Cinema Discourse’
Scott, Alistair: ‘Shieldinch or Raploch, Community Lives on
Television: Fact or Fiction’
Sydney-Smith, Susan: ‘Get Carter and “the Northern”: The
glocalisation of the British Crime Movie’
Thornton, Niamh: ‘Zapatistas: Reclaiming the Margins
Through Technology’
Tobias, James: ‘Shin-Tokyo-Gakumon: Learning Tokyo by
Creating it Otherwise’
Van den Bulck, Hilde and Dave Sinardet: ‘Is National
Identity the Weakest Link? The Articulation of National
Identity in a Globalised Popular Television format’
Vitali-West, Valentina: ‘Action Women’
Wieten, Jan and Mervii Pantti: ‘Mourning becomes the
Nation: Television Coverage of the Murders of Anna Lindh
and Pim Fortuyn’
Willemen, Paul: ‘The Conceptualist Vector in Comparative
Film Studies’
Woodward, Kate: ‘” and to a lesser extent, Wales ” New
Cinema in Wales’
Woolock Stephen: ‘Regional Relocation: Humberside County
Council and the Exclusion of the “World”’
CONFERENCE FEES:
Fees (with two nights accommodation) #130.00
Fees only #90.00
Fees include breakfast, tea & coffee, light lunch and evening meals on
Wednesday and Thursday.
Please note that paper presenters need to register for the
conference and pay the registration fee. Cheques made
payable to University of Ulster
ENQUIRIES TO:
Janet Mackle Martin Mcloone
Conference Co-ordinator Conference Organiser
Cultural Development
Centre for Media Research
Tel: 028 7032 4683
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Northern Ireland
BT52 1SA
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Registration form can be downloaded from:
http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osshome.htm
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funding for museums, galleries and collections that are based in, or
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AHRB Research Centres Scheme and is a partnership of eight institutions.
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