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Dear Colleagues The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London has the pleasure of hosting two research seminars this month on Wednesday 21st March and Wednesday 28thMarch at 4.00pm. All welcome. 1) Making Race in the Cultural Industries Dr Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths) 16.00-18.00hrs, 21 March 2018, Strand Building S -2.23 (for details see below) 2) Museums and Participation- Who Goes.. (and who doesn’t?) Dr Lisanne Gibson (University of Leicester) 28 March 2018, 16.00-18.00 hrs, S-2.23 Strand Building (for details see below) Making Race in the Cultural Industries Dr Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths) 16.00-18.00hrs, 21 March 2018, Strand Building S -2.23 Studies of race, media and ideology have long demonstrated how racial and ethnic minorities are represented in deeply damaging ways - either demonised, exoticised or rendered invisible. But such research, nearly always textual in nature, has been unable to offer an effective political response - other than to demand 'authentic' stories or representations. In this paper, I call for a cultural industries approach to studying race and racism in the media. Challenging purely textual cultural studies accounts of representation, I argue that a radical cultural political programme is absolutely contingent upon production strategies – that is, an effective ‘politics of production’. Situating the issue of representation explicitly within a cultural industries framework gives us a more nuanced and complex understanding of the ideological role of the media in the making of race, which in turn leads to a broader understanding of the governance of racial and ethnic identities under neoliberalism. Bio: Anamik Saha is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. After completing his PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, Anamik worked in the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds, firstly as an ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, then as a Lecturer in Communications. He has held visiting fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Trinity College, Connecticut. Anamik’s research interests are in race and the media, with a particular focus on cultural production and the cultural industries. He has had his work published in journals including Media, Culture and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. With David Hesmondhalgh (2013) the co-edited a special issue of Popular Communication on race and ethnicity in cultural production, and with Dave O’Brien, Kim Allen and Sam Friedman (2017) he co-edited a special issue of Cultural Sociology on inequalities in the cultural industries. His new book Race and the Cultural Industries is out in December, 2017, published by Polity Press. 1) Museums and Participation- Who Goes.. (and who doesn’t?) Dr Lisanne Gibson (University of Leicester) 28 March 2018, 16.00-18.00 hrs, S-2.23 Strand Building (for details see below) Abstract: Visitor figures, visitor studies and sociological studies show that the profile of the audience for museums is overwhelmingly predicted by an individual’s level of income and education. Museum visitors are white and middle class. This is so even when you take account of gender, ethnicity, age and wealth. Furthermore, visitors to museums are part of a minority of the population who engage with State funded cultural activities on any regular basis. Recent work on this in the UK has shown that this minority is just 8.7% of the population (Taylor 2016). Given that the aim of leading edge museum practice is to effect social change serious acknowledgement of these limitations and a rethinking of how museums offer service to the majority must inform museum practice now and into the future. This presentation will reflect on some of these stark facts and using excerpts from interviews discuss some of the emerging findings from the ‘Understanding Everyday Participation’ project and the implications for the museum sector and indeed the cultural sector more broadly. Bio: Lisanne Gibson is based at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester in the UK. She has worked in the field of cultural policy studies for over 25 years and works especially on cultural participation and value; the State and cultural/ heritage policy; and, cultural planning and urban development. She is the author of 2 monographs, an edited book, has guest edited 5 special journal issues, and published numerous articles and reports on these subjects. She is a longstanding member of the editorial committee of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Lisanne is currently working on the AHRC project Understanding Everyday Participation- Articulating Cultural Value (2012-2018). Jeanette Steemers Professor of Culture, Media & Creative Industries King’s College London Strand Campus London WC2R 2LS -------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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