CONF: After September 11:TV News and Transnational Audiences' (University of Wales in Swansea)

From: Louise Watson [mailto:[email protected]]

Please find information below on the conference the British Film Institute
and partners are holding entitled 'After September 11: TV News and
Transnational Audiences'. The conference is being held on the 9 -11
September 2002 at the University of Wales in Swansea, and we hope that you
might be interested in attending. We would be grateful if you would pass on
this email to interested colleagues. Please contact Louise Watson, the
conference administrator, on +44 (0)20 7957 8988 or by email
([email protected]) if you would like further information. Please
also contact me if you would like hard copies (in colour) of the leaflets to
display on pinboards.

Thank you

Louise Watson
Conference Administrator


AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: TV NEWS AND TRANSNATIONAL AUDIENCES

9 - 11 September 2002, University of Wales, Swansea, Great Britain

Co-organised by the British Film Institute, Open University, and ESRC.

The news media are central arenas of political conflict and public debate.
The proliferation of satellite news channels brings new transnational
configurations of audiences into being that may have unpredictable
consequences for states, governance and citizenship. This conference will
bring together academics, journalists and policy-makers to analyse and
evaluate the role played by television news in mediating the events of
September 11 and ensuing conflicts. It will examine diverse audiences and
competing narratives of causes and consequences.

CONFERENCE THEMES
* The political management of news agendas and audiences
* The ethics and aesthetics of representing terror and war
* Collective identifications and grammars of 'othering'
* Transnational news, governance and citizenship

NEW RESEARCH
Presenting the findings of collaborative research on transnational news
agendas and audiences by a team of some 30 multi-lingual researchers.

Presentations from invited speakers in addition to analyses of:
*       terrestrial and satellite news agendas from around the world, with
evaluation of   broadcasters'   management of agendas and audiences
*       reception of TV news in mono- and multi-lingual households and
families in
the UK and      elsewhere.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
*       Chris Doyle (Communications Officer, Council of Advancement of
Arab-British    Understanding)
*       Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Professor of Social Anthropology, University
of
Oslo, Norway)
*       Robert Fisk (Middle East Correspondent for the Independent)
*       Frank Gardner (BBC Middle East Correspondent)
*       Karim Karim (Acting Assoc. Director, School of Journalism &
Communication, Carleton         University, Canada)
*       Tamar Liebes (Professor of Communication, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem)
*       Shireen Mazari (Director the Institute of Strategic Studies,
Pakistan)
*       Baqer Moin (Head of BBC Persian & Pashto Service)

For further details see: http://www.afterseptember11.tv

Booking information can be obtained from: Conference Services, University of
Wales, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales. Email
[email protected]

General conference enquiries: [email protected]