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CENTRE FOR MEDIA & CULTURE RESEARCH
Autumn 2009 Events
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Tuesday 27 October, 2pm, K806, Keyworth Street
MEDIA, WAR AND TERRORISM SEMINAR SERIES
This seminar series addresses news and documentary representations of
contemporary war and terrorism. Two further seminars are planned for the
spring 2010 semester.
JOHN CONROY is a BAFTA-nominated director and producer. He won the 2009
Broadcast Award for Best Multichannel Programme for Ross Kemp in
Afghanistan, and was a 2009 BAFTA nominee for Best Factual Series. In 2008
John produced and directed the BBC’s world affairs editor, John Simpson, in a
documentary for BBC2 on the dilemmas of war reporting, and directed ITV1’s
Doctors and Nurses at War series. John’s presentation will focus on his current
work preparing a new documentary series on the state of the war in
Afghanistan.
ADANIA SHIBLI is a celebrated Palestinian novelist and short story writer, who
has been described as ‘the most talked-about writer on the West Bank’.
Adania has also recently completed a PhD at the University of East London.
Her research focuses on Arab, Israeli, and European media discourses and
visual representations of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the 9/11 attacks,
and the ‘war on terror’. Her presentation, titled ‘Visual Terror’, will explore the
issue of invisibility and its function within the visual representation of terror.
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Wednesday 4 November, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street
BERLIN—FRANKFURT—ISTANBUL: TURKISH HIP-HOP IN MOTION
THOMAS SOLOMON is Associate Professor in the Grieg Academy – Department
of Music, at the University of Bergen, Norway. His publications include articles
in Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, and Yearbook for Traditional Music, as well
numerous edited volumes. His current research focuses on popular musics in
the Turkish diaspora in Europe, issues of gender in Turkish rap music, and
musical imaginations of regional identity on the Turkish Black Sea coast. This
paper explores the implications the experience of movement can have for
feelings of belonging, arguing that multi-sited ethnography is an especially
appropriate method for investigating these transnational communities of affect,
following actors along the routes they take as they trace the itineraries of their
identity.
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Wednesday 25 November, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street
Michigan’s Morphing Media: A US Test Case
MARIA MARRON is Professor and Chair of the Journalism Department at Central
Michigan University, and is spending this semester as a Visiting Professor at
LSBU where she is undertaking research on investigative journalism in the
British Isles, examining attitudes toward investigative journalism, related levels
of professionalism, and the effects of investigations on public policy.
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All events take place in the Keyworth Building, London South Bank University,
Keyworth Street, London SE1 (nearest tubes Elephant & Castle / Borough /
Southwark). Admission is free, but please reserve a place in advance by
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