Dear all,

the Department of Media at Edge Hill University with the MeCCSA
Practice Section are delighted to inform you about the one-day symposium
Watching the Media. The registration deadline is next Friday (8th
April). See below for details of how to register.

The symposium addresses particularly contemporary constraints on
practitioners, and we have some cracking speakers - including Jason Lee
(MeCCSA Practice Section, University of Derby) and Julian Petley (Brunel
University)

For more information please see below.

Elke


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Watching the Media

Censorship and its limits in media creative practice will be examined
during a special one-day research symposium at Edge Hill University.

Practitioners in press roles and the arts face numerous limits and
controls, so the aim of the event is to explore how practitioners
respond to these constraints in social, cultural and political
contexts.

Watching the Media - Censorship, Limits and Control in Creative
Practice on 15th April will look at how practice is often politicised in
relation to power and how practitioners themselves envisage the pressure
and limitations affecting thinking, production and performance.

It has been organised by MECCSA and the University's Media Department
with the aim of producing a framework for understanding the limits of
contemporary practice in Britain and beyond and offer the industry and
government bodies some recommendations for the future.

Keynote speakers include Julian Petley, Professor of Screen Media and
Journalism at Brunel University, who argues thatcontrary to the
impression given by the popular press, crusading politicians and various
pressure groups, censorship is alive and well in the UK. His paper,
Freedoms of Expressions versus the Need for Protection: An Overview of
Current Laws and Regulationswill outline some of the ways in which this
works, with particular reference to representations which involve images
of sexuality and/or violence.

David Nash, Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, will
present Models of Censorship: The Example of Blasphemy. Best known for
his work on the history of blasphemy, he has given advice to MPs as well
as giving evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious
Offences in 2003. Within the last year he has advised groups in Ireland
about the recent legislative changes that have altered the crime of
blasphemy in that country.

Dennis Hayes, Professor of Education at the University of Derby, will
present Fear and Self-Censorship in the Academy. The founder of
Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF) will argue that in universities
today it is not public or managerial censorship but self-censorship that
is the threat to academic freedom.

Papers will also be presented by:

Esra Arsan, Istanbul Bilgi University, who will talk aboutwhy
particular news stories are being censored in Turkey.

Stephen Carver, University of East Anglia, will examine horror and
censorship, offering an original contextualisation of the post-war genre
in America, centring on the influence of EC horror comics, and starting
with the moral panic of 1954.

Roger Cottrell, Edge Hill University, will look at how the
proliferation of internet use has challenged the dominant hegemony in
efforts to censor and manage information. Particular interest will be
the cultural impact of these developments before and after 9/11 and the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Prof. Tomasz Malinowski, Edge Hill University and Lincoln University,
will address the issue of censorship from the point of view of a
filmmaker in communist Poland and in Brezhnev's Russia.

Jennifer Skellington, Oxford Brookes University, will investigate
censorship of music criticism within the English broadsheet press from
1981 to 2011.


The symposium on 15th April is from 9.30am to 5pm and is £25.
Concessions are available for Edge Hill University staff and doctoral
students. To register, contact Debbie Chadford on 01696 584534 or email
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Dr Elke Weissmann
Edge Hill University
Media Department
Ormskirk, L39 4QP



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