The Social and Cultural Movements Group,
Edge Hill College, UK
2nd International Conference:
Imaging Social Movements
Plenary Speakers: Mark Poster (University of California at Irvine)
Author of 'The Second Media Age' and
'Whats the Matter with the Internet?'
Jimmy McGovern (Film Maker, Bloody Sunday)
George McKay (UcLan, UK) author of 'DIY Culture'
And 'Senseless Acts of Beauty'
Thursday 1st July to Saturday 3rd July 2004
Call for Papers
Following the success of its 2002 conference: Making Social Movements: The
British Marxist Historians, the Social Movements Group is organising a 2nd
International Conference for Summer 2004, exploring the theme of the
construction of images, representations and articulations of social
movements.
The effectiveness of social movements has always relied not only upon the
political activity and its theoretical conception, but also upon its
cultural representation and aesthetics. The changing media, cultural and
technological landscape has transformed the means and media by which social
movements can create and contest their 'image', and how others create and
contest images of them. This conference aims to bring together social
movement researchers across the social sciences and humanities in
considering questions of conception, process and outcomes in the imaging
social movements - past, present and future. Indicative strands include:
Ψ Social Movements and the Internet
Ψ Social Movements and Popular Film
Ψ The Mechanics of Representation
Ψ Narratives/Literatures and Social Movements
Ψ Media construction of Opposition
Ψ The Documentary Tradition
Ψ Performance of Subversion
Ψ Social Movements and Popular TV
Ψ Imaging Resistance and Cultural Politics
We welcome traditional papers, posters and less traditional audio-visual
presentations. Send proposals with abstract of 150-200 words by 25th April
2004 to: Roger Spalding/Lee Salter, Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39
4QP. UK. email: [log in to unmask] Web site:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/
Booking Form
Name
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Institution/Affiliation
Contact Address and Postcode
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Full Conference Delegate Package (includes 3 days conference, £125
2 nights accommodation)
Full Conference Delegate without accommodation £90
Additional Night Accommodation (per night) £25
Conference Delegate per day (including lunch/refreshments) £45
Delegate per day including evening meal £ 55
Special Discounted Rate - Mark Poster Seminar 3rd/4th July
£ 30
(see below)
Total payment
£
Facilitation Needs (Disabled Support etc.)
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Dietary Needs
Payment must be made by the 14th June. Cheques should be made out to Edge
Hill Enterprises. Other forms of payment should be agreed with the
conference organizers contact [log in to unmask]
The Information Society, Post-Modern Virtualities and Cyberdemocracy:
Critical Engagements with Mark Poster
A seminar to be held at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Saturday
July 3rd Sunday July 4th, under the aegis of the Social and Cultural
Movements Research Group.
The purpose of this seminar is to capitalise on the presence of Mark
Poster in the UK, on a visit to give the closing plenary address at the 2nd
International Conference of the Social and Cultural Movements Group, on the
theme of Imaging Social Movements.
The idea behind the seminar is to explore Posters recent thinking and
publications, focused on his analysis of The Mode of Information, (Whats
the Matter with) the Internet, Post-Modern Virtualities and Cyberdemocracy.
The seminar will involve a maximum of six or seven papers, with a reply by
Poster concluding the seminar. The seminar will have limited numbers in
order to keep it manageable for discussion and debate. The papers and
Posters reply will be published as a special edition of a journal.
Delegates at the 2nd International Conference of the Social and Cultural
Movements Group will be charged a nominal fee to cover subsistence costs.
Those seeking to attend the seminar only should contact Paul Reynolds -
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Name
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Institution/Affiliation
Contact Address and Postcode
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Telephone Number
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E-mail
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Seminar Delegate Package
£60
(includes 1 night accommodation not dinner)
Special Discounted SMG Conference £30
Delegates
Facilitation Needs (Disabled Support etc.)
..
Payment must be made by the 14th June. Cheques should be made out to Edge
Hill Enterprises. Other forms of payment should be agreed with the
conference organizers contact [log in to unmask]
Conference Booking Form
Name
..........................................................
.......
Institution/Affiliation
Contact Address and Postcode
...
Telephone Number
.
E-mail
.
Full Conference Delegate Package (includes 3 days conference, £125
2 nights accommodation)
Full Conference Delegate without accommodation £90
Additional Night Accommodation (per night) £25
Conference Delegate per day (including lunch/refreshments) £45
Delegate per day including evening meal £ 55
Special Discounted Rate - Mark Poster Seminar 3rd/4th July
£ 30
(see below)
Total payment
£
Facilitation Needs (Disabled Support etc.)
..
..
Dietary Needs
Payment must be made by the 14th June. Cheques should be made out to Edge
Hill Enterprises. Other forms of payment should be agreed with the
conference organizers contact [log in to unmask]
Please return to:
Lee Salter
Department of Media and Communications (Social and Cultural Movements
Group)
Edge Hill College, St. Helens Road
Ormskirk, Lancs
L39 4PQ, UK
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