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> CREATIVE, CRITICAL & RADICAL
> 35th anniversary of the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London
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> Friday 8th November 2013
> A day-long symposium featuring talks and discussions by leading scholars and practitioners (10am-6pm), followed by an exhibition opening
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> Venue: New Academic Building (LG01), Goldsmiths, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW
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> You are warmly invited to come and celebrate the 35th anniversary of Goldsmiths’ Department of Media and Communications. The event aims to represent the diversity of theory- and practice-driven approaches to the disciplinary conjunctures around media and culture embraced by the Department throughout its history. As such, it will span a wide range of themes and topics – from democracy, neoliberalism and public life to the ethics and politics of journalism; from feminism and global media to the materiality of screen and Internet time; from media futures to the future of media studies.
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> SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
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> 10.00-10.15 Welcome and opening remarks: Joints Heads of Department Prof. Natalie Fenton and Dr Julian Henriques
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> 10.15-11.15 KEYNOTE PANEL: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA STUDIES
> Prof. Sara Ahmed, Prof. James Curran, Dr Tony Dowmunt, Prof. Sean Cubitt; chaired by Dr Mirca Madianou
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> 11.15-11.30 – Coffee
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> 11.30-12.30 MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
> Prof. James Curran on the needs of media and democracy and the attempts to reform the press; Prof. Aeron Davis on the media failure in relation to the crash and the continued ascendancy of neo-liberalism; Angela Phillips on ethics which needs structures that would empower journalists; Prof. Des Freedman on the Leveson failure to engage with power and the need to limit media concentration and sustain new initiatives; Prof. Natalie Fenton on new social movements and a better tomorrow.
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> 12.30-13.30 – lunch break
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> 13.30-14.30 GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS: FEMINISMS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
> The session will profile a project that took place in the Department in the 1990s, whose legacy very much lives on. The project arose out of an ESRC grant won by Prof. Valerie Walkerdine (now of Cardiff U) to explore the lives and educational aspirations of young working class and middle class girls. The project evolved into an exciting theory/practice collaboration, which produced a series of video diaries made by the young girls and screened on Channel 4. Prof. Walkerdine and members of the Department, incl. Jacqui Cheal, Tracy Bass and Tony Dowmunt, will talk about the project, screen some of the diaries and engage in a Q&A with Prof. Sara Ahmed and Prof. Lisa Blackman. The session will also remember the contributions to shaping the Department made by the late John Beacham, Prof. Ivor Gaber, Noski Deville, June Melody and Helen Lucey, as well as many students who worked on the project.
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> 14.30-15.30 – MEDIA FUTURES
> How can we imagine and theorise media futures? Is the future of the media social – or perhaps anti-social? Will the media become ever more invisible, ubiquitous and all-encompassing – like the air we breathe? Is futurology the best way of thinking about media futures? Last but not least, taking into account the unprecedented changes occurring in our environment, do we need to start thinking about a future ‘after the media’ – or even ‘after the human’? These questions will be discussed by Prof. Sarah Kember, Dr Julian Henriques, Mike Flood Page and Prof. Joanna Zylinska.
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> 15.30-16.00 Coffee
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> 16.00-17.00 – GLOBAL MEDIA
> A discussion on the theme of ‘locating the global’, featuring Prof. Daya Thussu (Westminster); Prof. Nick Couldry (LSE); Dr Gareth Stanton; Dr Mirca Madianou; Dr Clea Bourne as well as Goldsmiths alumni Giang Nguyen (BBC) and Zeena Feldman (City University). The session will be introduced by Dr Marianne Franklin (via video) and moderated by Dr Gholam Khiabany.
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> 17.00-18.00 – SCREEN CULTURES AND MEDIA ARTS
> A multilevel engagement with the problem of time, in its historical / activist / narrative / real / ephemeral / comical-tragical-pastoral guises. Speakers: Dr Pasi Valiaho on deep time; Dr Veronica Barassi on internet time and Robert Smith on narrative time. Chaired by Prof. Sean Cubitt.
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> 18.00 – exhibition opening and drinks reception (aka BIG PARTY)
> Exhibition will feature works by staff and students
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> All welcome: to reserve your FREE place please email Zehra Arabadji <[log in to unmask]>
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> Professor Joanna Zylinska
> Department of Media and Communications
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> http://www.joannazylinska.net
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> Curator of Photomediations Machine
> http://photomediationsmachine.net
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