Towards a Sociology of Popular Music in the Arab Region
Conference organised by the Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) Keynote Speaker: Thomas Burkhalter The compendium of...
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China and the Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication
The conference assesses the impact of the peaceful rise of China and poses questions about its effect on global communication....
New materialism: politics, aesthetics, science
New Materialism is currently having a profound effect across disciplines. Rooted in post-marxist thinking, but spreading out on the flat ontology of networks,...
Emily Keightley (Loughborough University): Piecing together the past: photography, memory, imagination
Using fieldwork drawn from her project Media of Remembering (2010-2013, Leverhulme Trust) Emily Keightley will trace the role of photography...
Web Literature and World Literature
Speaker: Professor Michel Hockx (SOAS, University of London) Chair: Dr David Feng This paper surveys the development of online creative...
Gary Hall (Coventry University): Ubercapitalism
Neoliberalism’s weakening of the social is likely to affect the future organisation of labor. In his talk, Gary Hall will...
Media Engagement: Connecting Production, Texts and Audiences International Symposium
The symposium is hosted by the University of Westminster in association with Lund University, and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg...
Organising or Mobilising? How organizations Develop Activists
Hahrie Han (University of California, Santa Barbara) Why are some organizations better than others at getting—and keeping—people involved in activism?...
Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University): Tear Gas and ‘Other Media’
Sites of protest and political contention are often shaped by ‘other media’. In her talk, Anna Feigenbaum look beyond taken-for-granted...
Intolerance and the Media: India, Pakistan and the UK
(Note: The venue requires all attendees to bring photo IDs with them which will be checked by a security guard...