(NAME-MCE) International Language, Communication and Culture Conference

[Paul C. Gorski]

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‘Post-industrial and infotainment’ Cultural Studies: 

Questions, Possibilities and Positions for Education

 

5th International Language, Communication and Culture Conference

 

Second Announcement and Call for Papers for LCC 2007

(Castelo Branco, Portugal, November 28-30, 2007)

 <http://lcc2007.ese.ipcb.pt/> http://lcc2007.ese.ipcb.pt



Deadlines:
Papers/Abstract Submissions: June 15th
Authors Notification: June 30th

Early-bird registration online: July 15th

Camera-ready, full papers: September 30th


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Recent times have witnessed radical changes in society and culture.
Post-industrial and post-Fordist global capitalism, shrinking job markets,
economic recession, new forms of surveillance and control, large media
conglomerates, near ecological breakdown, the rise of fear and of social and
personal instability have put pressure on the discourses and practices of
education in culture and society.

 

Cultural studies has a long-standing record of involvement with education in
the work of Raymond Williams, Henri Giroux, Peter McLaren, Paulo Freire, M.
Byram, and Lawrence Grossberg to quote but a few researchers and
practitioners, who have repositioned education as an interdisciplinary field
where issues of identity, diversity and power, the ‘high’ and the ‘low’ of
culture, the identity politics of education, the ‘cultural wars’ between
liberals, conservatives and radicals matter. 

 

But how has cultural studies engaged with the new conditions of economic
efficiency, with a society and culture colonized by media culture, and the
authority crises of schools and education? 

 

How does cultural studies investigate and question the new technologies, the
new modes of cultural production and circulation and the new forms of
political and social life in the context of education?

 

In the face of such vertiginous change, does cultural studies require new
theories and politics? Does it call for a radical break from previous forms
of thinking society, culture, politics, and education? Does it require a new
‘turn’ to revise, update, and reconstruct education, culture and the new
trajectories of societies?

 

 International and interdisciplinary perspectives and papers are invited on:


 

*	How cultural studies pushes for new questions, new models and new
ways of study in the context of education; 

*	Post-industrial pressures on education; 

*	Power, representation and identity in education; 

*	‘Hard’ news, ‘soft’ news, ‘infotainment’ and its effects on
education: 

*	Shifts in educational discourse: dominance of new technologies,
decline of authority, scepticism, media-saturated environments,
mass-dissemination of signs and images, changed conditions of circulation of
information and knowledge in the technologically-sophisticated 21st century;


*	Transformative, emancipatory, radical  and critical pedagogies; 

*	Politics of culture and education: pedagogy of commodification,
politics of reception; 

*	Schools as institutions and as sites of learning in contrast with
new sites of learning; 

*	How educators appropriate and use new education cultural ‘texts’ and
cultural practices.

 

Themed sessions

1-Cultural Studies, Industrial and Post-Industrial Societies

Session organizer: Maria João Ramos, Faculty of Letters, University of
Lisbon / School of Technology and Management, Beja Polytechnic
<mailto:joaojoao at netvisao.pt> joaojoao at netvisao.pt

 

2- New Profiles of Hope for Cultural Studies:  representations of the self
in a post-industrial society.

Session Organiser: Ana Clara Birrento, University of Évora –
<mailto:acbirrento at netvisao.pt> acbirrento at netvisao.pt

 

3- Literature and Cultural Studies

Session organiser: Sofia Sampaio, University of Lisbon/FCT
<mailto:pso_sampaio at hotmail.co.uk> pso_sampaio at hotmail.co.uk

 

4 -Discourses of Distance: New Media and the Status of Equity in Off Campus
Learning

Session organizer: Philip Dearman, Faculty of Arts, Monash University,
Australia  <mailto:Philip.Dearman at arts.monash.edu.au>
Philip.Dearman at arts.monash.edu.au

 

5 - Young people, Media Literacy and citizenship for the 21st Century

Session organizer: Helena Menezes, School of Education, Castelo Branco
Polytechnic

 <mailto:Helena.menezes at ese.ipcb.pt> helena.menezes at ese.ipcb.pt

 

6 - Cultural studies and critical pedagogy

Session organizer: Margarida Morgado, School of Education, Castelo Branco
Polytechnic

 <mailto:marg.morgado at ese.ipcb.pt> marg.morgado at ese.ipcb.pt

 

7- Art Education – pedagogical and cultural perspectives, strategies and
practices in formal and non formal educational contexts  

Session organizers: Isabel Branco,  and Madalena Leitão, School of
Education, Castelo Branco Polytechnic

 <mailto:madalena.leitao at ese.ipcb.pt> madalena.leitao at ese.ipcb.pt

 

8 - European photography and the metropolis

Session organiser: Álvaro Pina, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters
<mailto:alvaro.pina at fl.ul.pt> alvaro.pina at fl.ul.pt

 

Contacts:

Conference organisation :    

secretariadolcc at ese.ipcb.pt

sonia_balau at ese.ipcb.pt

marg.morgado at ese.ipcb.pt