Conference on impact of film and media on crisis of multiculturalism in Europe
10 Jan 2013
'Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism in European Media and Film: Rights, Responsibilities, Representations' will take place at the University on 23-25 May 2013.
The recent explosion of migration flows across the world, the crisis in which established models of multiculturalism find themselves in Europe and elsewhere, and the current global financial and economic crisis have combined to raise the prominence of issues of ethnicity, race and nationalism in most countries.
Speeches made in 2011 by Angela Merkel and David Cameron, and controversies over the expulsion of Roma and the wearing of religious attire in public places in France, indicate a common crisis in European tolerance. Eastern Europe demonstrates similar difficulties in managing ethnic diversity in the face of global mass population movements, of which the shocking outbreak of racial violence in Moscow in 2010 is just one example.
The European media play a crucial role both in exacerbating the tensions which inter-ethnic relations arouse (the spread of racial hate language and nationalist extremism on the internet; the use of ethnic profiling and racial stereotyping in crime reporting), and in fostering inter-ethnic cohesion and harmony (national policies on promoting diversity and equality in broadcasting).
This conference aims:
- to facilitate a cross-cultural, comparative study of the impact of media and film on the playing out of the “crisis of multiculturalism” in West and East European societies; and
- to analyse the similarities and differences in media and cinematic approaches to ethnic cohesion issues throughout Europe.
Registration is now open for this conference with Early Bird rates available until 7 March:
- £145 standard rate
- £125 student rate
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