SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS


OFF-SCREEN SPACES: REGIONALISM AND GLOBALISED CULTURES
An international conference on Film, Television and Media: Cultures and Policies

28-30 July 2004
University of Ulster, Coleraine - Portrush Campus


Organised in association with the Center for Media Research, University of Ulster.



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This major international conference will explore the relationship between 'global' popular culture and various definitions of 'local' culture. Crucial to an understanding of this relationship is the concept of 'the region' as it has become reconfigured by global economic and cultural forces. Regional cultures exist in relation and in opposition to dominant national cultures and interact with them in complex and contradictory ways.

National cultures are themselves often posited as 'regional' cultures in opposition to the global and the concept of 'critical regionalism' has been canvassed as a challenge to global conformity or homogeneity. On the other hand, in line with the strategies of multinational corporations more generally, multinational software manufacturers have divided the global market into 'regions' for the purpose of controlling the DVD market. This would suggest that, despite the potential of regional cultures to offer alternatives to the global market, there is in fact nothing intrinsically challenging or radical in the concept of the region.

The conference will explore the complex and contradictory relationships among the local, the regional, the national and the global and assess the implications for both media representation and local, national and transnational audio-visual policy. Central to discussions will be the concept of comparative film studies and a number of papers will address the rationale and theoretical implications of comparative media research.

The conference also encourages papers that explore the role that new ICTs play in shaping regional digital cultures and politics. How, for instance, have social movements adopted new technologies in order to become organised in ways that challenge national borders? What responses have the state and supranational entities had to such practices? How have new media industries redefined cartographies of production, distribution and consumption and what are some of the new antagonisms and collaborations that attend such socio-technical formations? The conference is interested in both theoretical and reflexive empirical responses to questions along these lines.


Confirmed speakers so far include:

John Tomlinson
Ien Ang
Toby Miller
John Hill
Ned Rossiter
Valentina Vitali
Desmond Bell
Máire Messenger Davies
Paul Willemen


Conference sessions will include the following themes:

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited which address any of the themes of the conference.

Abstracts of between 150-200 words should be e-mailed or sent on disk to:

Janet Mackle
Conference Co-ordinator
Cultural Development
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Northern Ireland BT52 1SA

Tel: +44 (0) 28 7032 4683

e-mail: spacesconf@ulster.ac.uk

Please note that paper presenters need to register for the conference and pay the registration fee.

 

REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

Conference information and the registration form can be downloaded here:

Download the information sheet and registration form as PDF (184KB)

Download the information sheet and registration form as Word document (350KB)

 

CONTACT US:

CONFERENCE ORGANISER:

Dr Martin McLoone
Centre for Media Research
Associate Director, AHRB Centre for British Fim and Television Studies

CONFERENCE CO-ORDINATOR

Conference bookings, abstracts and enquiries to:

Janet Mackle
Conference Co-ordinator
Cultural Development
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Northern Ireland BT52 1SA

Tel: +44 (0) 28 7032 4683

e-mail: spacesconf@ulster.ac.uk

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