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NORTHERN MEDIA RESEARCH GROUP 5th One-Day Conference (NMRG5)

Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 1998 10.30-16.45

PROGRAMME of SPEAKERS

10.00-10.30     Registration and coffee.
10.30-11.15     'Televised political debate: the legacy of the 1995
Presidential Election' Sheila Perry (Northumbria).
11.15- 12.00    'Les mesures d'audience a la television en France dans les
annees 50' Cecile Meadel (ENSM Paris).
12.00-12.45     'Popular French Singers: Media Representations, Past and
Present' Chris Tinker (Birmingham).
13.00-13.45     Lunch and coffee.
14.00-14.45     'Selling the Spirit(s) of Scotland: advertising Scottish
products in the French press 1985-98' Christine Penman (Stirling).
14.45-15.30     '"Reality" Programming in French TV Drama of the 1950s and
1960s' Joy Leman (Westminster).
15.30-16.15     'Le jeune cinema: la mediatisation du retour du politique'
Phil Powrie (Newcastle).
16.15-16.45     Tea and discussion of future plans.

The Registration fee is stlg14, and coffees, sandwich lunch and teas can be
provided for stlg6. It may be possible for the registration and food costs to
be waived for PGs.  The Station Hotel is 2 minutes on foot from Newcastle
Central Station. Turn right leaving the Station and the Hotel is 50m away.

To register for the Conference, please contact the venue/conference
organiser Hugh Dauncey at School of Modern Languages, University of
Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU (please mark correspondence 'NMRG');
by phone on 0191-22-7491/7486; by Fax. 0191-222-5442, email
[log in to unmask],[log in to unmask]). NB. Please make cheques payable
to the University of Northumbria at Newcastle.

The NMRG was founded in 1995 to provide a focus for study and research in
French Media studies in the North of England (loosely defined) and
Scotland. Participants in Day-Conferences have come from all over the UK
and France. The NMRG organisers are Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare
([log in to unmask], 0191-22-7486) and Sheila Perry (Modern Languages,
University of Northumbria, [log in to unmask], 0191-227-4932).

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Dr Hugh D Dauncey,
School of Modern Languages,
University of Newcastle,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU.  UK

Tel direct: 0191-222-7491, Tel secretariat: 0191-222-7441, Fax: 0191-222-5442.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nsml/FRANCE98/france98.html
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nsml/NMRG/nmrghome.htm
http://wjfms.ncl.ac.uk/



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Geoff Hare, French Dept, Newcastle University
Tel. (44) (191) 222 7486.  See our WWW Home Page :
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/


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