Programme Thursday 26 November
Printable Overview parallel sessions on Thursday
Registration - 9.00 hrs
Opening Plenary Session - 9.30 - 11.00 hrs
Susanne Janssen | Opening of 'Media, Communication and the Spectacle' |
Nick Couldry |
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Douglas Kellner |
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Liesbet van Zoonen |
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Parellel Session 1 - 11.00 -12.30 hrs
Incorporation and the Tactics of Protest
Having a laugh: protest tactics and the spectacular . | |
Music makes politics. Live Aid and Live 8 as tools of international politics. | |
From direct action to spectacular action: a case study of dissent!'s mediated resistance at the 2005 G8 summit. | |
The unbearable liughtness of 'being there': the case of December riots in Greece. | |
The social protest as spectacle. |
Cinema-going, exhibition and reception
"Original cinephany"and reappropriation. | |
The spectacle of the war. Children, cinema andthe life experience in a Czechoslovak city after World War II. | |
Spectacles of conspicuous consumption: picture palaces and social polarization. | |
Selling the spectacle. Local cinema exhibitors as cultural intermediaries. |
Performativity and Resistance
Community museums as a form of resistance. | |
Queer cuttings on YouTube Re-editing soaps as a form of fan-produced queer resistance. | |
Drawing mass media attention: television and newspaper reporting on radical left-wing activist performances and spectacles in the Netherlands (2004-2009). |
Lunch/YECREA Workshop - 12.30 - 13.30 hrs
Academic publishing for young scholars.
YECREA, the ECREA Young Scholars' Network, organizes a workshop on academic publishing. Publishing is not something to do after the PhD; it has become part of the PhD process from an early stage. Moreover, in some European countries PhD's are obtained on the basis of article publications. The peer review process often enhances the quality of one's research and argumentation, and having high-level publications is more and more becoming a necessary condition for getting a post-doc position. At the same time academic publishing requires a considerable about of tacit knowledge, and might be intimidating at first. In this workshop, Nico Carpentier, professor and director of the doctoral school for the humanities at the Free University of Brussels
(VUB) and one of the organisors of the annual ECREA Summer School will give a concise and concrete introduction to the academic publishing process. How does the process work? How to get your work published? This 30 minutes presentation on the publishing process, will be followed by a discussion.
In order to avoid young scholars having to choose between the paper sessions of their section and the workshop, the YECREA workshop takes place during the lunch break. Participants can eat their lunch during the workshop
Parellel Session 2 - 13.30 -15.00 hrs
Surveillance and the Society of Fear
“This was not an incident that revolved around the Jumbotron”: Television, public screens, and failed surveillance at the Staples Center. | |
Carmen Albert, Eva Espinar, Isabel Hernández & Cristina Lopez | The spectacle of fears and social risks at television news: the Spanish case study. |
Web 2.0 and Surveillance. | |
Weapons of gender: images of women in and against Fitna. | |
Spectacle and the aesthetics of demolition, decay and disposability. |
Deconstructing Popular Cultures
Let’s speculate about the spectacle of teen series. An overview of gender and sexual scripts in popular teen series in the contemporary Flemish media. | |
South Park boys and Sex and the City women. Transnational television industries and the creation of gendered humor styles. | |
Watching Israeli lesbians – on screening lesbians on Israeli media. | |
Female star power? Gender and bestselling authors in France, Germancy and the United States, 1970-2007. | |
Harry Shearer’s Le Show: The Cultural Politics of Infotainment. |
The Visual Spectacle: fiction and non-fiction
Colliding the fictional and the actual in the Bosnian Valley of the pyramids. | |
Dinosaur Visualizations. Theorizing the spectacular image. | |
Spectacle on The Street. | |
The visual reading of the spectacle. | |
Shelf Life – The Rise and Fall of Guggenheim Las Vegas. |
Parallel Session 3 - 15.15 - 16.45 hrs
The political and the Spectacle
The populist extreme right and the representations of people, elite, and nation through culture. The case of the Vlaams Belang. | |
Are voters engaged citizens? British voters and the European election 2009. | |
Talking spectacle to life: a performative understanding of mediatized politics in Hungary, 2000-2008. | |
“Spectacular” politics without citizens? | |
Notes on a dempcracy of playfulness in “spectacle 2.0” type political campaigns. |
Constructing Imaginary Realities
Sex, drugs and cantopop: a study of spectacularization of popular culture in Hong Kong. | |
From the society of the spectacle to the society of the machinery: mutations in popular culture 1960s – 2000s. | |
Encoding Islam in Dutch multicultural entertainment television. | |
On the trail of 007. Places of the imagination in the world of James Bond. | |
Spectacular film star events. Towards a theory of cross-media celebrity culture. |
Gendered Representations
Inequalities of love: portraying romantic relationships in women's and men's magazines. | |
Gender roles dynamics and new family models in Russian media discourse. | |
To feminize technology: the case of Portuguese women's magazines. | |
Representations of the femininity on the International Women's day in the Portuguese media: heroines or victims? | |
Keeping it Real: user-generated pornography, gender reification and visual pleasure. |
Parallel Session 4 - 17.00 - 18.30 hrs
Performance, the public and publicness
'There's no such thing as society?' Performing the 'public'. | |
The pbulic debate and the spectacle of politics. | |
Modes of citizenship performed by denim | |
Ethos of spectatorship: media spectacle for poachers. |
Film Industry, Programming and Audiences
“Such overpowering and breathtaking beauty”: the marketing and reception of 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968). | |
“American movies for the show, French films for the sex.” – Film programming strategies and movie-going experiences in Antwerp (Belgium) 1950s-1970s. | |
Sailing with the tides. International film majors and their operation in the Dutch market, 1990-2005. | |
‘Gent Kinemastad’ or did really everyone watch ‘our pictures’? A programming research on the (un)equal offer of European and American films in the 1930s. | |
Oscar Nominees, Box Office Hits and Critic's Favourites: Film Discourse in Comparative Perspective. |
Consuming Celebrities
Shooting for fame: spectacular youth, Web 2.0 dystopia, and the celbrity anarchy of generations mash-up. | |
Celbrity news information and the notion of the spectacle. | |
Celebrity politics in Belgium: a study of its sociological and institutional antecedents. | |
Female celebrity in Portuguese women's lifestyle magazines. | |
The concessionary gift of the royal spectacle. |
