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Subject: CFP: Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City (a
Union for Democratic Communications international conference)
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>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>
>ENCLOSURE, EMANCIPATORY COMMUNICATION AND THE GLOBAL CITY:
>AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNION FOR
>DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATIONS
>
>Hosted by the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
>October 25-28, 2007.
>
>PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2007
>
>The field of culture and communication manifests struggles between
>contradictory tendencies. On the one hand, pressures from capital
>and state sometimes promote various forms of enclosure -- the
>private appropriation, suppression or marginalization of
>socially-produced public expression. Enclosure comes in many
>guises: the commodification of information; concentration and
>hyper-commercialism in media industries; the corporatization of
>universities; restrictive "intellectual property" regimes; or market
>authoritarianism as a mode of governance.
>
>On the other hand, progressive forces, from artists and academics to
>broad social movements, are not only resisting such enclosure, but
>developing practices and policies that prefigure emancipation -- new
>ways of re-organizing culture and communication democratically.
>These include struggles over alternative media, state cultural
>policies, communication rights, reform of media and cultural
>institutions, audience empowerment, urban public space, and much
>else.
>At the nexus of changing national cultures and policies, of
>transnational migrations and markets, of media flows and audiences,
>of consumption and surveillance, the global city is emerging as a
>key site for such contestation.
>
>The Union for Democratic Communications invites proposals, from
>artists, activists and media scholars, for presentations,
>roundtables, workshops and panels that examine and critique the
>relationship between forces of enclosure and emancipation,
>especially in the context of the global city (broadly defined).
>Other topics relevant to democratic communication are also very
>welcome.
>
>The keynote address will be delivered by Mike Davis, author of City
>of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and, most recently, Planet of Slums.
>Other featured speakers, including Dan Schiller, Nick Dyer-Witheford
>and Dee Dee Halleck (UDC Smythe Award recipient) will be
>complemented by presenters on a wide range of topics, video and
>other media presentations, and interaction with local activist and
>artistic groups concerned with democratizing communication. The
>conference coincides with Vancouver's annual Media Democracy Day,
>featuring an Independent Media Fair at the city's architecturally
>acclaimed public library.
>
>For the first time, the UDC conference will be held in downtown
>Vancouver, Canada, hosted by Simon Fraser University's School of
>Communication; co-sponsors include the SFU Institute for the
>Humanities and the British Columbia Libraries Association.
>Vancouver is about 120 miles north of Seattle, and offers direct
>flight connections to many cities in Canada and the US. Vancouver
>is surely a 'global city': Canada's "gateway to the Pacific" and
>host to the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics, perched amidst
>spectacular mountain and coastal scenery and recreation, but also
>home of Canada's poorest urban district and historically an
>incubator of influential social movements.
>
>Proposals are invited for both individual papers and panel or
>workshop sessions. Individual paper proposals should include a
>title, a brief (maximum 250 word) abstract of the presentation, and
>contact information including name, title, institution, mailing
>address, telephone, fax and email address. Panel session proposals
>should include titles, contact information, and a brief (maximum 250
>word) abstract for each panel member; they should also include a
>short (maximum 100 word) description of the overall panel theme and
>contact information for the panel chair. Proposals from artists for
>individual presentations or panel sessions should also include
>samples of the work to be presented. Please identify any
>audio-visual needs in your proposal as we may not be able to
>accommodate later requests.
>
>All proposals should be submitted by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the
>form of a Word or PDF attachment. Hard copies may also be sent to:
>
>UDC 2007 Conference
>School of Communication
>Simon Fraser University
>Burnaby BC V5A 1S6
>Canada
>
>Conference presenters are expected to pay registration fees and
>should be current members of the Union for Democratic Communication
>(please visit www.udc.org to join the UDC).
>
>Limited conference travel funding assistance for student and
>low-income presenters will be available. Please send a request with
>your proposal.
>
>Please visit www.sfu.ca/conferences/udc2007 for more details about
>the conference.
--
Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mass Communication & Women's Studies
Editor, Feminist Media Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. Program in Mass Communication
Mass Communication
Williams Hall
Miami University-Ohio
Oxford, OH 45056
USA
Tele: +1 513-529-3547
Fax: +1 513-529-1835
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