Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Social and Cultural Movements Group - 2nd
International Conference - Call for Papers
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> The Social and Cultural Movements Group, Edge Hill College, UK
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> 2nd International Conference: Imaging Social Movements
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> Thursday 1st July to Saturday 3rd July 2004
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> Call for Papers
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> Following the success of its 2002 conference: Making Social Movements:
> The British Marxist Historians, the Social Movements Group is organising
> a 2nd International Conference for Summer 2004, exploring the theme of
> the construction of images, representations and articulations of social
> movements.
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> The effectiveness of social movements has always relied not only upon
> the political activity and its theoretical conception, but also upon its
> cultural representation and aesthetics. The changing media, cultural and
> technological landscape has transformed the means and media by which
> social movements can create and contest their 'image', and how others
> create and contest images of them. This conference aims to bring
> together social movement researchers across the social sciences and
> humanities in considering questions of conception, process and outcomes
> in the imaging social movements - past, present and future. Proposed
> indicative strands include:
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> Social Movements and the Internet
> Social Movements and Popular Film
> The Mechanics of Representation
> Narratives/Literatures and Social Movements
> Media construction of Opposition
> The Documentary Tradition
> Performance
> Social Movements and Popular TV
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> We welcome traditional papers, posters and less traditional
> audio-visual presentations.
>
> Send proposals with abstract of 150-200 words by 31st January 2004 to
>
> Roger Spalding/Lee Salter
> Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 4QP. UK
> Email: salterl@???
> Web site: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/ >
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> Paul Reynolds
> Senior Lecturer in Sociology
> Programme Leader in Sociology and Social Psychology
> Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences
> Edge Hill College
> St Helens Road
> Ormskirk
> Lancs L394QP
> Tel: 01695 584370
> email: reynoldp@???
>
> Paul Reynolds
> Senior Lecturer in Sociology
> Programme Leader in Sociology and Social Psychology
> Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences
> Edge Hill College
> St Helens Road
> Ormskirk
> Lancs L394QP
> Tel: 01695 584370
> email: reynoldp@???
>
> Paul Reynolds
> Senior Lecturer in Sociology
> Programme Leader in Sociology and Social Psychology
> Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences
> Edge Hill College
> St Helens Road
> Ormskirk
> Lancs L394QP
> Tel: 01695 584370
> email: reynoldp@???
>
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