The conference Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism in European Media and Film: Rights, Responsibilities, Representations to be held 23-25 May 2013, in Manchester, England UK will address questions such as:
- In what senses are various types of media, including those reliant on new communication technologies, aggravating inter-ethnic tensions in Europe?
- How serious a threat to social cohesion in European societies are extremist websites, blogs and other new media forms of global and national provenance?
- Are ethnic and racial minorities accorded appropriate rights to representation in national broadcasting systems?
- To what extent are representations of ethnicity, race and nationhood, and the coverage of issues pertaining to ethnic cohesion, dependent on national context?
- What are the conceptual frames to which journalists and film-makers in various European societies resort when covering this area and what are their origins and consequences?
- How are European broadcasters with national responsibility dealing with the rise of the anti-immigration, Islamophobic right on one hand, and with the loss of faith in official multicultural policies on the other?
- What role does non-news broadcasting (drama serials; documentary programming; situation comedy; light entertainment genres) play in the representational process? How have cinematic imaginations of national and European identity refracted the shifting consensus on values of ethnic diversity?
Please email your proposals (250 words) for papers of up to 20 minutes in length and your one-page CVs to the conference organisers (Professors Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz) at RRRMediaConference(at)manchester.ac.uk by 30 September 2012.