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A reminder that there is still time to sign up for CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies' free research symposium:
And the Winner is...? Prizes and Awards in Arts and Culture
One day symposium hosted by CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester
Monday 4th June 2018, 9am-6pm
Keynote Speaker: Dr Anna Auguscik (University of Oldenburg) author of Prizing Debate: The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK. (Bielefeld: transcript, 2017).
'The custom of awarding prizes, medals, or trophies to artists [...] is both an utterly familiar and unexceptional practice and a profoundly strange and alienating one.' - James F English, Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards and the Circulation of Cultural Value (2005), p.1
What is a cultural prize? Who receives them, and why? This one day symposium seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss cultures of prize-giving, and the diverse range of cultural prizes and awards now circulating within the cultural industries, arts and wider creative economy. Cultural awards can be defined as prizes and honours gifted to cultural products, or their creators/producers, as signification of the product's high quality or prestige. Yet the status of such prizes and the ways in which they are imagined, created and allocated can tell us much about the politics of value and participation in the arts and cultural industries. The symposium provides the opportunity to discuss and compare research, approaches and methodologies with peers from other disciplinary fields in order to help develop a greater, and more comprehensive, understanding of cultural awards today.
Full programme details and abstracts available here.<https://www2.le.ac.uk/institutes/cameo/cameo-events/cameo-past-events/cultural-awards-symposium-research-days-proceedings> You can register for this event here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/and-the-winner-is-prizes-and-awards-in-arts-and-culture-tickets-45318979287>.
Kind regards,
Dr Stevie Marsden
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CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies &
School of Media, Communication & Sociology
University of Leicester, UK
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