MeCCSA PGN Conference 2017 – 26th-27th June 2017 @ Goldsmiths, University of London
Borders and Boundaries: Territories, Technologies, Transgressions
Keynotes speakers: Jeremy Gilbert, Natalie Fenton, Sue Clayton, Myria Georgiou, Lina Dencik and Seeta Peña Gangadharan.
Get tickets here before June 10th for the cheap rate:
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Tickets include entry to all sessions and keynotes on both days lunch, dinner on the first day and free entry to a social event with live music and DJs. A bargain at £15! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
This two-day conference explores the ways in which the interrelated crises of late neoliberalism involve the collapse and reconstitution of boundaries – territorial (the “refugee crisis”, new forms of extractive neo-colonialism), socio-spatial (urban restructuring, segregation and displacement,) political (Brexit, Trump, the rise of the far-right globally) and personal (self-tracking, automated surveillance and digital labour). Borders and Boundaries is the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) annual postgraduate network conference. Over 30 academics and postgraduate students from the fields of media, cultural studies, sociology, geography and other related disciplines will present on all aspects of borders and boundaries. Along with traditional academic papers, the conference will feature presentation of audiovisual work, a film screening and innovative discussion formats.
Keynote talks:
- Social media and social movements: hegemony, participation and resistance - with Jeremy Gilbert (UEL, author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an age of Individualism and Anticapitalism and Culture) and Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, author of Digital, Political, Radical, founder of Media Reform Coalition)
- Mediations of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ - with Sue Clayton (Goldsmiths, director of award winning films Hamedullah: The Road Home and The Disappearance of Finbar) and Myria Georgiou (LSE, author of Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference, former journalist with BBC World Service)
- Data, Surveillance and Identities - with Lina Dencik (Cardiff University, author of Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Emancipation and Control and Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century) and Seeta Peña Gangadharan (LSE, former research fellow at US Open Technology Institute, expert on ‘big data’, privacy and surveillance)
Other presentation topics include:
Drones that make poetry; exclusions from the London housing market; cities and cybernetics; networked mobilisation in Brazil; social media and constructions of visual identity in southeast Asia; “soundborderscapes”; trans-European activism; Uber and the disruption of legal boundaries; automation in the creative industries; folk devils and the English 2011 riots
Postgraduate training workshops:
- Mental Health and PhDing (tbc)
- Academic Labour (Dr Des Freedman)
- Developing Academic Career (Dr Anamik Saha)
- Pathways to media industries (tbc)
- Academic Publishing (tbc)
The early bird fee of £15 (buy before 10th June) is down from £35 in 2015. Your ticket includes:
- Access to all sessions over two days
- Dinner and social event with live music and free drinks on first evening
- Wine reception on second evening
- Lunch, tea and coffee on both days
Conference hashtag: #meccsapgn2017
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