The Northern Media Research Group
6th NMRG ONE-DAY CONFERENCE :
Saturday 24 April 1999
(Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Please register now if you are interested in attending
- See below for the details of NMRG Organisers
PROGRAMME of SPEAKERS (the running order is still provisional)
10.00-10.30: Registration and coffee.
10.30-11.15: 'Les transformations du champ des médias nationaux
d'information générale en France depuis le début des années 80.
Le cas révélateur du "scandale du sang contaminé"' Dominique
Marchetti (IEP Rennes, MSH Paris)
11.15-12.00: 'Dans quelle situation se trouve la culture à la
télévision française après les changements des années 80-90?
Isabelle Veyrat-Masson (CNRS)
12.00-12.45: 'The media's role in the maintenance of the standard
language'
Alan Smith (Newcastle upon Tyne University)
13.00-13.45: Lunch and coffee.
14.00-14.45: 'Comment le cinéma français s'exporte t-il ?'
Christian Boudier (French Embassy London)
14.45-15.30: 'Same Old Story?: Of Media Whores and Autonomous
Intellectuals in Bourdieu's "Sur la television"'
Jeremy Lane (Aberdeen University)
15.30-16.15: 'Football and television in France - a symbiotic
relationship'
Geoff Hare (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
16.15-16.45: Tea and discussion of future plans.
The NMRG would like to acknowledge the financial assistance offered to
NMRG6 by the Institut Français (Edinburgh) and by the Association for
the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF).
To register for NMRG6, please contact the the programme and venue
organisers, Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare, at School of Modern
Languages, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU,
(please mark correspondence 'NMRG'); by phone on 0191-22-7491/7486; by
Fax. 0191-222-5442, email [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask])
The standard Conference registration fee is £14. Coffee, sandwich
lunch and coffee, and a mid-afternoon cup of tea are provided for £6.
The total fee is thus £20, for which sum cheques (in advance if
possible) should be made payable to 'University of Northumbria at
Newcastle' and sent to Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare.
NMRG is able to sponsor postgraduate students attending the
conference (up to a maximum of eight) by waiving the above
registration and food costs. Postgrad speakers can benefit from a
travel subsidy provided to the NMRG by ASMCF.
The Royal Station Hotel is immediately adjacent to Newcastle Railway
Station.
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Geoff Hare, French Dept, Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, GB
Tel. (44) (191) 222 7486. See our WWW Home Page :
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/
and the Web Journal of French Media Studies :
http://wjfms.ncl.ac.uk/
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