Dear All ..... please feel free to circulate this notice ..... all welcome (for exact timing or programme see below) Disruptive Events: electoral insurgencies, political discourse & the Brexit vote Thursday, 8th December, 2016 Edith Murphy Lecture Theatre 0.28 (arrive at Clephan Building and you will be shown the way) De Montfort University Registration 1.30pm Symposium ends: 5.30pm Dinner: 6pm TO BOOK A FREE PLACE: email [log in to unmask] Introduction: 2pm Keynote 1: 2.10pm - 2.50pm (10 mins questions) Dominic Wring and David Deacon - University of Loughborough Leave it Out: British print and broadcast news media reporting of the Brexit Referendum Paper: 2.50 - 3.10pm Jen Birks - Nottingham University The journalistic ethics of objectivity and verification in populist debate Paper: 3.10 - 3.30pm Dr Max Hanska - How Brexit Won the Twitter Campaign (10 mins questions & 10 minute break) Keynote 2: 3.50pm - 4.20pm (10 mins questions) The European arrest warrant, EU law and political insurgencies Estella Baker - De Montfort University Paper: 4.30 - 4.50pm Stuart Price - De Montfort University Political Insurgencies and the Corbyn Phenomenon Paper: 4.50 - 5.10pm David Marsh - Canberra University Brexit and the Politics of Truth (10 mins questions) Dinner: no questions asked Best wishes Stuart Stuart Price Professor of Media and Political Discourse -------------------------------------------------------- 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. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------