Dear Colleagues, please find below details of an event hosted by Leeds University and supported by the Digital Economy Culture and Communities Network+. The event is free to attend, but places are limited:
Discourses of Public Engagement:
Location: Old Mining Building, Room G.19 University of Leeds
When: 20th September 2012. 13:00- 16:30
Funded by the Digital Economy Communities and Culture Network+, this half-day symposium addresses the practical, theoretical and conceptual issues and challenges arising from researching public engagement. We ask what engagement could, should and does look like across a range of research projects each addressing some form or practice of public engagement. Indeed, from creative co-curation or production, to leisure forms and practices, from action groups to civic consultation, public engagement has become a catch-all phrase that is meant to encapsulate many practices including communication, participation and empowerment. It is also a term that has been used to refer to service and information delivery, creative performance and iterative dialogue between communities, groups and individuals. So what does this term really mean and what does it include and negate? How useful is it for encapsulating an increasingly diverse range of practices, forms and modes? How have practices, forms and discourses changed, particularly with the increased digital take up, and what are the implications of this for public engagement?
The half-day symposium includes a number of representatives from a range of ongoing research projects all investigating forms of engagement including:
* Catalyst: Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change (EPSRC)
§ Media, Community and the Creative Citizen Project (AHRC Connected Communities)
§ Understanding Everyday Participation (AHRC Connected Communities)
§ Cultural Intermediation in the Creative Urban Economy (AHRC, Connected Communities)
§ Public Engagement and Cultures of Expertise (ESPRC, Digital Economy)
The event is free to attend, but places are limited and allocated on a first come first serve basis. If you wish to attend, please email [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> before the 1st September 2012.
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