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Symposium at Nottingham Trent University: Friday 8 February 2013 Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference Nottingham Trent University Research Symposium Media & Cultural Studies @ NTU: 21 years - the past, the present, the future While Nottingham Trent University has a long been associated with media, cultural and communication studies (a Communication Studies degree was first established here in the early 1980s), the annual Media & Cultural Studies symposium this year marks the 21st birthday of the establishment of MCS as a Joint Honours subject in the institution. This was followed five years later (in 1996) by the setting up of a Media & Cultural Studies degree (now the BA in Media). Much has happened in the intervening years, both within the discipline, and within the higher education sector more broadly, both in the UK and beyond. The purpose of the symposium is to reflect on the changes, and continuities, within this period. What can we say about theoretical developments, pedagogical initiatives, new topics of enquiry and/or disappearing fields of study? The symposium will consider the history of Media & Cultural Studies, the contours of current debates and challenges, and the problems, issues and potentially new directions of the future. Friday 8 February 2013 from 10.30-16.20 Location: Room 219, George Eliot Building, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS 10.30-11.40: session 1 Ben Taylor (NTU): 'Media studies, waste and sustainability' Bob Jeffery (Sheffield Hallam University): '"They're all fucking top houses": belonging and hysteresis in a splintering city' 11.50-13.00: session 2 Georgia Stone (NTU): 'Media practices at NTU: an illustrated retrospective' Gary Needham (NTU): 'Andy Warhol does Cultural Studies' Lunch 13.50-15.00: session 3 Roger Bromley (University of Nottingham): 'Beginning Cultural Studies: Re-reading John Berger's A Seventh Man (1975)' Alexander Dhoest (Antwerp University): 'Comparing notes: What the Flemish case can teach us about the strengths and weaknesses of British Media and Cultural Studies' 15.10-16.20: session 4 Donna Peberdy (Solent University): 'A Dangerous Method? Provocative Performances of Perversion' Estella Tincknell (University of the West of England): 'Dowagers, Debs, Nuns and Babies: The Politics of Nostalgia in the British Sunday Night Television Drama Serial' The symposium is open to all, but if you are interested in attending, please contact Ben Taylor (email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). http://inequalityculturedifferencentu.blogspot.com/ DISCLAIMER: This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------