‘Post-industrial and infotainment’ Cultural Studies:
Questions, Possibilities and Positions for Education
5th International Language, Communication and Culture Conference
Second Announcement and Call for Papers for LCC 2007
(Castelo Branco, Portugal, November 28-30, 2007)
http://lcc2007.ese.ipcb.pt
Deadlines:
Papers/Abstract Submissions: June 15th
Authors Notification: June 30th
Early-bird registration online: July 15th
Camera-ready, full papers: September 30th
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Recent times have witnessed radical changes in society and culture.
Post-industrial and post-Fordist global capitalism, shrinking job
markets, economic recession, new forms of surveillance and control,
large media conglomerates, near ecological breakdown, the rise of fear
and of social and personal instability have put pressure on the
discourses and practices of education in culture and society.
Cultural studies has a long-standing record of involvement with
education in the work of Raymond Williams, Henri Giroux, Peter McLaren,
Paulo Freire, M. Byram, and Lawrence Grossberg to quote but a few
researchers and practitioners, who have repositioned education as an
interdisciplinary field where issues of identity, diversity and power,
the ‘high’ and the ‘low’ of culture, the identity politics of education,
the ‘cultural wars’ between liberals, conservatives and radicals matter.
But how has cultural studies engaged with the new conditions of economic
efficiency, with a society and culture colonized by media culture, and
the authority crises of schools and education?
How does cultural studies investigate and question the new technologies,
the new modes of cultural production and circulation and the new forms
of political and social life in the context of education?
In the face of such vertiginous change, does cultural studies require
new theories and politics? Does it call for a radical break from
previous forms of thinking society, culture, politics, and education?
Does it require a new ‘turn’ to revise, update, and reconstruct
education, culture and the new trajectories of societies?
International and interdisciplinary perspectives and papers are invited
on:
• How cultural studies pushes for new questions, new models and
new ways of study in the context of education;
• Post-industrial pressures on education;
• Power, representation and identity in education;
• ‘Hard’ news, ‘soft’ news, ‘infotainment’ and its effects on
education:
• Shifts in educational discourse: dominance of new technologies,
decline of authority, scepticism, media-saturated environments,
mass-dissemination of signs and images, changed conditions of
circulation of information and knowledge in the
technologically-sophisticated 21st century;
• Transformative, emancipatory, radical and critical pedagogies;
• Politics of culture and education: pedagogy of commodification,
politics of reception;
• Schools as institutions and as sites of learning in contrast
with new sites of learning;
• How educators appropriate and use new education cultural ‘texts’
and cultural practices.
Themed sessions
1-Cultural Studies, Industrial and Post-Industrial Societies
Session organizer: Maria João Ramos, Faculty of Letters, University of
Lisbon / School of Technology and Management, Beja Polytechnic
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2- New Profiles of Hope for Cultural Studies: representations of the
self in a post-industrial society.
Session Organiser: Ana Clara Birrento, University of Évora –
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3- Literature and Cultural Studies
Session organiser: Sofia Sampaio, University of Lisbon/FCT
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4 -Discourses of Distance: New Media and the Status of Equity in Off
Campus Learning
Session organizer: Philip Dearman, Faculty of Arts, Monash University,
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5 - Young people, Media Literacy and citizenship for the 21st Century
Session organizer: Helena Menezes, School of Education, Castelo Branco
Polytechnic
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6 - Cultural studies and critical pedagogy
Session organizer: Margarida Morgado, School of Education, Castelo
Branco Polytechnic
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7- Art Education – pedagogical and cultural perspectives, strategies and
practices in formal and non formal educational contexts
Session organizers: Isabel Branco, and Madalena Leitão, School of
Education, Castelo Branco Polytechnic
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8 - European photography and the metropolis
Session organiser: Álvaro Pina, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters
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