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Hurry! Last few places for attenders!

Identities in Action Conference

An inter-disciplinary conference
University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog
Friday 10th - Sunday 12th December 1999 

Although accommodation is now limited, there are still some places left at 
this exciting and timely interdisciplinary conference. Over 50 papers are 
on offer, focusing in particular on gender identities, cyberspace identities, 
national identities, ethnic identities, organisational identities and
personal 
identities. 

The conference aims to gather together diverse perspectives on the ways in
which concepts of identity, alienation and belonging, and modes of language
and discourse, reveal themselves in cultural and political undertakings. At
this turning point of the millenium, we hope to identify some emerging 
patterns in the negotiation, rehearsal and affirmation of identities, and to 
consider the roles of visual, verbal and other codes in mediating, as well as 
defining, cultural positions and forging alliances. What, for instance, is
the 
role of imagery drawn from advertising, popular music and the mass media in 
the construction of identities? In what ways are identities 'under
construction' 
in online media? What are the variations and constraints in the ways in which 
we represent ourselves when we use various modes of communication? What 
dynamics can we identify in the ways language and other discourses shape the 
identities of groups in action, and help to construct their trajectories? 

Presenters come from the following institutions: 
Université Aix-Marseille, Babson University, University of 
the Basque Country, Brunel University, University of Canterbury, 
New Zealand, City University, London, University of Colorado, 
Eastern Kentucky University, Hong Kong, City University, Johns Hopkins 
University, University of Lancaster, University of Liverpool, Latrobe 
University, University of Lleida, Catalunya, London School of Economics, 
Lunds University, University of Malaysia, Manchester University, 
Manchester Metropolitan University, University of the Mediterranean, 
Marseilles, Melbourne University, Monash University, Napier University, 
New York University, Nottingham Trent University, Open University, 
Université Technologique de Belfort-Montbéliard, St Antony’s College, 
Oxford, Queensland University of Technology, University of South Africa, 
University of North Carolina, University of South Carolina, University of 
Salford, Trinity and All Saints College, Universidade Federal do 
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Umea University, Sweden, University of Wales, 
Aberystwyth, University of Wales, Bangor, University of Wales, Cardiff, 
University of West Kentucky, Wilberforce University, Ontario, 
University of Wollongong, University of Wyoming.

Details at...

http://www.aber.ac.uk/~jmcwww/Identact/

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