The 3rd International ‘Language, Communication, Culture’ Conference
University of Évora, Portugal
23 – 25 November, 2005
www.lcc2005.pt.vu/
Second Announcement and Call for Papers
The 3rd International Language, Communication, Culture Conference, to be
held in Évora, Portugal, November 23-25, 2005, offers an opportunity to
bring together academics, intellectuals and practitioners in the areas
of media and cultural studies and the social sciences and humanities
from around the world and to promote informed discussion on
globalisation, democracy and culture as a theme relevant for
intellectual work in language, communication and culture studies,
research and practice.
The Conference is organised by the staff and associates of the ‘Culture
and Society’ Postgraduate Programme (University of Lisbon, Faculty of
Letters)
International and interdisciplinary perspectives and papers are invited
on
1. The languages of globalisation, the languages of culture:
- The politics of language learning and language hegemony in a global
world;
- The languages of democratic international cinema;
- The languages of documentary and humanist photography;
- Languages and (cultural) identities; performative languages of gender
and race;
- Narrative models of Media discourses as a ‘fast-food’ culture
industry.
2. Globalisation and democracy in global communication:
- The Media, the West and the Rest; globalisation / glocalisation
strategies and tactics in the Media;
- Journalism and war; the Media and terrorism; the Media and human
rights;
- Press freedom and (democratic) self-regulation;
- The Media and alternative (and independent) politics;
- New Media and new democracy.
3. Globalisation and culture:
- Globalisation and cultural internationalism: Learning / Unlearning
dominative global discourses and practices;
- Negotiating meaning across cultural differences and in multicultural
discourses; forms of democratic participation in formal and informal
communities of cultural practice and shared languages;
- Cultural knowledge in the Information Age: Learning how to acquire,
transfer, produce and use cultural knowledge effectively and in
innovative ways;
- Processing cultural knowledge in the informational society;
- New cultural mediators/intermediaries.
Full information on keynote speakers, submission deadlines, standard and
"early bird" fees, etc., is now available online at
http://www.lcc2005.pt.vu/
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