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> Dear all,
>
> You can register for the following conference (and find fuller
> details) by going to this address...
>
> http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/events/sept06/confsept06main.htm
>
> ... or by going to the CRESC website via a search engine, and then
> clicking on the link to the conference details. The deadline for
> registration at the reduced rate is 23 June. There are concessions
> for students, and for unwaged and retired people.
>
>
>
> Dave Hesmondhalgh
>
> The Open University
>
>
>
> "Media Change and Social Theory"
>
> 6-8 September 2006
>
> St Hughs College
> Oxford, UK
>
> Conference Outline
>
> Media Change and Social Theory is a major international conference
> organised by the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
> (CRESC) at The Open University and The University of Manchester (in
> association with the Centre for Media, Culture and History, New
> York University).
>
> This second CRESC conference will focus on how to enrich the
> intellectual resources we draw upon to understand the media. The
> conference brings together some 250 media and cultural studies
> scholars and social theorists to try to push forward media theory.
>
>
> Confirmed plenary and keynote speakers:
> Tony Bennett (The Open University)
> Nick Couldry <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/whosWho/
> nickCouldry.htm> (London School of Economics)
> Faye Ginsburg <http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/faculty/
> ginsburg.html> (New York University)
> Daniel Hallin <http://communication.ucsd.edu/people/f_hallin.html>
> (University of California San Diego)
> Toby Miller <http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/
> public_individual.pl?faculty=2302> (University of California
> Riverside)
> Purnima Mankekar <http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthroCASA/people/
> faculty/mankekar.html> (Stanford University)
> Philip Schlesinger <http://www-fms.stir.ac.uk/staff-film-media/
> p.r.schlesinger.html> (University of Stirling)
> Annabelle Sreberny <http://www.soas.ac.uk/mediaandfilm/HTML/staff-
> profiles/Annabelle.htm> (School of Oriental and African Studies,
> London)
> Karel Williams (The University of Manchester)
> Liesbet van Zoonen <http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lvanzoonen/>
> (University of Amsterdam)
>
>
> Conference Convenors: David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee
>
> Conference Planning Group: Marie Gillespie, David Hesmondhalgh,
> Jason Toynbee, Farida Vis, Helen Wood
>
> Conference Administrator: Catherine Austin
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Conference Organiser: Josine
> Opmeer <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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