FYI, just in case you think I/we should go...

Thomas Patrick O'Malley [tpo] wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I sent this around earlier without the deadline for proposals. It is 
> the 14^th November 2008.
>
> Please accept my apologies.
>
> Yours
>
> Tom O’Malley
>
> *IAMHIST conference 2009: Social Fears and Moral Panics, Aberystwyth, 
> 8-11 July 2009*
>
> The International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) 
> announces its call for papers for the XXIII biennial IAMHIST 
> conference, incorporating the 3^rd Gregynog Media History Conference, 
> on the theme *Social Fears and Moral Panics.*
>
> The aim of the conference is to explore both the role of the media in 
> addressing, highlighting or perpetuating social fears, and the mass 
> media itself as a perceived moral agent and/or threat. Topics to 
> address might thus include questions of media content and/or language; 
> concerns about public intrusion; censorship and the freedom of 
> information; the reporting of crimes or disasters; invasion and 
> security fears in times of peace or war; religious, cultural and/or 
> linguistic fears; fears relating to youth or children, or to minority 
> groups; fears relating to particular behaviours, pursuits or leisure 
> activities; ‘golden ageism’.
>
> We welcome paper proposals that address the theme in both contemporary 
> and/or historical perspective; proposals which engage with the theme 
> comparatively (both geographically and temporally); and proposals 
> which engage with theoretical approaches, including the social theory 
> of moral panic.
>
> We also welcome proposals on their work in progress from postgraduate 
> and early-career scholars in the field of media history, including on 
> topics that may not be on the conference theme.
>
> Proposals for complete panels (three themed papers) are welcome, as 
> well as individual paper submissions. Papers presented at the 
> conference should be 25-30 minutes in length and should use 
> illustrative material (for instance film clips) wherever possible.
>
> Abstracts of no more than 300 words per paper should be sent to Dr 
> Sian Nicholas* **by 14^th November 2008 * at [log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> c/o Department of History and Welsh 
> History, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion 
> SY23 3DY, Wales UK.
>
> *The conference is being organised by IAMHIST, in association with the 
> Centre for Media History and Departments of History and Welsh History, 
> and Theatre, Film and Television, Aberystwyth University, the 
> Department of Media and Communications, Swansea University, and the 
> journals /Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television/ and /Media 
> History,/ with the support of the National Screen and Sound Archive of 
> Wales, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.*
>
> For further details, see 
> http://www.aber.ac.uk/history/research/centreformediahistoryIAMHIST2009.html 
>
>
> Aberystwyth University is located overlooking the seaside town of 
> Aberystwyth on the west Wales Cardigan Bay coast. Direct trains to 
> Aberystwyth run from Birmingham New Street via Shrewsbury. The nearest 
> airports are Birmingham (best for train links), Manchester and 
> Cardiff. Accommodation will be available on campus throughout the 
> conference.
>