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From: "Jonathan Gray" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: television conference (apologies for cross posting) please be advised of a conference on The Changing Faces of Television -- what's new and what's not with television. It is on Saturday, March 15th in London, hosted by Goldsmiths College's Department of Media and Communications. It is free, and open to both faculty/staff and postgrad students. RSVP required, to Jonathan Gray at [log in to unmask] schedule and paper information below: @ Goldsmiths College (Small Hall, Main Building, Lewisham Way) 9.45 - 10.15 Registration, & Coffee available in Loafers coffee bar 10.15 - 10.30 Introduction: David Morley (Goldsmiths College) 10.30 - 12.30 Panel 1 - Global Television - Daya Thussu (Goldsmiths College): The Digital Revolution and the Emerging Ethnic Mediascape - Tarik Sabry (University of Westminster): TV, Structures of Feeling and Mental Emigration: The Case of Young Moroccans - Noureddine Miladi (University of Westminster): Al-Jazeera and the Arab Global Public Sphere: Analysis of Two Programmes - Under Siege and Al-Jazeera's Pulpit - Rosser Johnson (University of Westminster): Advertising Intrusion into the Editorial Mainstream: The Strange Case of New Zealand Television 12.30 - 1.30 Lunch Break 1.30 - 3.00 Panel 2 - Aspects of Genre and Format - Annette Hill (University of Westminster): Real TV: Television Audiences and Factual Entertainment - Jonathan Gray (Goldsmiths College): Parodies, Previews, and the Porous Medium - Des Freedman (Goldsmiths College): Britain's Last Great Export Industry: TV Formats 3.00 - 3.30 Coffee Break 3.30 - 5.00 Panel 3 - Contemporary Fandom - Matthew Hills (Cardiff University): The 'Mainstream Cult': Theorising Television Fandom Through and Beyond Cult TV - Bertha Chin (Goldsmiths College): The Fan Fiction 'Industry' in Fandom - Will Brooker (Richmond University): Television Overflow in Theory and Practice 5.00 - 5.15 Closing Discussion