Cultural Studies Now(19-22 July, 2007, London)

CALL FOR PAPERS
We are organising a conference on CULTURAL STUDIES NOW at the University of East London, UK, 19-22 July 2007, and invite colleagues to offer a paper or other form of presentation or organise a panel.

For further details see website http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow

The main themes will be:

• Cultural Studies and Politics
• Cultural Studies and its Disciplinary Neighbours
• Cultural Studies in the Public Sphere
• Cultural Studies and Creative Practice
• Cultural Studies and National Contexts.

Plenary speakers will include: Ian Ang, Rosi Braidotti, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Jeremy Gilbert, Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Doreen Massey and Mitra Tabrizian.

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOV 15th.

Mica Nava
School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies
University of East London

Two Thousand + SEVEN

Two Thousand + SEVEN
<<< 2nd international symposium focusing on networked performance
environments >>>

The upcoming edition of Two Thousand + SEVEN will once again run in  parallel to the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music  (www.sonorities.org.uk), hosted by the Sonic Arts Research Center,  Queen’s University Belfast (www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). The festival is the  longest-running new music festival in Ireland that presents  cutting-edge new music and features some of the most thought-provoking  and controversial musicians.

Call for papers/presentations:
The call for papers is now open.
Please go to: www.sonorities.org.uk/symposium for details.
The focus will be on cultural and practical issues that arise in virtual performance environments.

Keynote Speakers:
George Lewis (Columbia University) and Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, London)
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George Lewis previously taught at UC San Diego,Mills College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Simon Fraser University’s Contemporary Arts Summer Institute. He has served as music curator for the Kitchen in New York, and has collaborated in the “Interarts Inquiry” and “Integrative Studies Roundtable” at the Center for Black Music Research (Chicago). A member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis studied  composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM School of Music, and  trombone with Dean Hey. An active composer, improvisor, performer and  computer/installation artist, Lewis has explored electronic and  computer music, computer-based multimedia installations, text-sound  works, and notated forms. His artistic work is documented in over 120  recordings and has been awarded by a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, 1999  Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts, and numerous fellowships from the  National Endowment for the Arts. His oral history is archived in Yale  University’s collection of “Major Figures in American Music,” and his  published articles on music, experimental video, visual art, and  cultural studies have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and  edited volumes.
www.music.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.html

Steven Connor has taught since 1979 at Birkbeck College, where he is  now Professor of Modern Literature and Theory. He is currently Academic  Director of the London Consortium Masters and Doctoral Programme in  Humanities and Cultural Studies. He is also the College Orator. For  publications see: www.bbk.ac.uk/english/skc

Further Details:
Paper sessions will take place in the morning and the afternoon bridged by a lunchtime performance and finished off with two evening concerts.
Date: Saturday, 21st of April 2007
Location: Sonic Arts Research Center/Belfast, www.sarc.qub.ac.uk

Deadlines:
A maximum of 8 papers of 20 minutes duration (plus question time) will
be accepted.
Abstracts (max. 350 words) are due in electronic format by the 15th of
December 2006.
Presenters of accepted papers/presentations will be informed by the
15th of January 2007.
All accepted papers will be published  on the SARC site.

Registration: £30 (£15 unwaged).
This includes free access to all Sonorities Festival events on the day
of the symposium.

Submissions and all queries should be directed to:
f r a n z i s k a   s c h r o e d e r
franzisk[at]lautnet[dot]net

The Documentary Tradition (8-12 November, 2006)

The Documentary Tradition
(8-12 November, 2006)
Roundtable Options for the Official Program
Deadline is 15 September

Three Roundtables are planned and we are looking for
participants who will present a 3 to 5 minute statement
for discussion.

If you have been looking for a way to be on the program
at this meeting, these options may work for you; however,
we are fast approaching the deadline for registration.

Please go to our web site and explore the conference
options, esp. the Roundtable formats.  This meeting is
a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in the
genre of documentary – with emphasis on historical
and cultural context.

1. The Ethics of Documentary

2. Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11

3. Spike Lee’s Katrina Documentary,
When the Levees Broke (HBO)

Check http://www.filmandhistory.org  and/or

write to Peter Rollins at RollinsPC [AT] aol.com

National Television Policies in the age of Globalisation

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC)

Call for Papers
National television policies in the age of globalization

Considerable discussion in the debate on globalisation within media studies has centred on the
question over the impact of the forces of globalisation on the nature and dynamics of national
policy-making. On one side of the debate are those who argue that technological change in the
form of digitalisation, the expanded jurisdiction of supranational organisations, and the increased
reach of global capital are challenging the capacity of national governments to assert control over
their domestic electronic media industries This is engendering a pattern of convergent trends in
broadcasting policy across countries. On the other side of the debate are those who claim that,
despite a similar set of external constraints, national governments still retain key policy
instruments to direct the evolution of their media industries in accordance with their policy goals,
as demonstrated by the variety in national approaches to the various policy issues that are
currently at the top of the political agenda. According to this line of argument, in order to account
for contemporary dynamics in media policies, it is still essential to consider in the analysis the
distinctive features of one country‚s political system, its political culture, and the legacy of pre-
existing arrangements in the organisation of the domestic media industry.

We are looking for original, research-based papers that contribute to this debate by broadening
the understanding of the interplay between global forces and the states in the making of
contemporary national television policies. We welcome both national studies and comparative
research across countries as well as research on policy-making at the supranational level (e.g. the
European Union). Particularly welcomed are those contributions that attempt to incorporate into
the analysis the theoretical approaches to the explanation of policy change and variation
developed within the policy-orientated literature.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Policy approaches to digital cable, satellite, and terrestrial television;

Digital switch-over strategies;

The regulation of digital pay-TV access (CAS, API, EPGs) and interactive services;

Policy approaches to IPTV;

Policy approaches to HDTV;

Policy approaches to Mobile TV;

The reform of public service broadcasters;

The reform of media ownership rules;

The regulation of programme production and of particular types of television content;

The reorganisation of the regulatory regime for the convergent communications sector.

Applicants may submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Alessandro D‚Arma at  HYPERLINK
“mailto:A.DArma01@westminster.ac.uk” A.DArma01@westminster.ac.uk. The deadline for
submission of abstracts is Friday 29th September 2006. For accepted articles the