Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre: Spaces, Connections, Control
Inaugural Symposium: Media, Diversity and Cosmopolitanism in Europe
Saturday 28 November 2009, 9:30 – 17:30
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre Goldsmiths, University of London
Programme:
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10: 00 – 10:20 Opening
James Curran (Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre) Kevin Robins (Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre)
10:20 – 11:50 Cosmopolitanism and Diversity in Europe
Chair: Monika Metykova (Goldsmiths)
Adrian Favell (Aarhus University): The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial: London as a Hub of Intra-EU Mobility
Katharine Sarikakis (University of Leeds): The Citizen-at-Large: Cultural and Communication Rights in the European Context
Ksenija Vidmar Horvat (University of Ljubljana): Is There a Cosmopolitan Patriotism? Spaces of Belonging and Citizenship in a Post-national Era
11:50 – 12:00 Refreshments
12:00 – 13:00 Plenary
Zygmunt Bauman: From Assimilation to…? A Brief History of European Ambitions and Their Frustrations
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:50 Media and Diversity
Chair: Kevin Robins (Goldsmiths)
Connie Christiansen (Roskilde University): Homepages of Hometowns: Forging the Transnational Village, Forging Transnational Citizenship?
Aniko Imre (University of Southern California): Paradoxes of Minority Stardom in Post-Wall Europe
Monika Metykova (Goldsmiths): European Catholic Media: A Challenge to Media Policy?
Isabelle Rigoni (Université de Poitiers): Muslims in the European Mediascape 15:50 – 16:10 Refreshments
16:10 – 17:10 Asu Aksoy (Goldsmiths) in conversation with Timea Junghaus (Curator, art historian)
17:10 – 17: 30 Closing Remarks
17:30 Wine reception
