Please circulate to those interested. Thank you, Sanaz ________________________________________________ Race and the Cultural Industries – Wednesday 14th September 2011, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds A one-day conference organised by the Media Industries Research Centre (MIRC), University of Leeds, in conjunction with the MeCCSA Race Network and the ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Temporary Working Group Registration now open. Standard rate = £50. Concessions (students, retired, unwaged) = £25 Click on the link below to register: https://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=117&modid=1&compid=1 Deadline for registration is 5th September 2011 For further information please visit the website (http://www.raceandtheculturalindustries.leeds.ac.uk/) or email a.saha@leeds.ac.uk Description The conference explores issues of ‘race’ and the media in the West. The papers will cover a wide range of issues on ‘race’ and ethnicity in relation to the cultural industries, from the experience of creative work, and cultural production, to the representation of multiculture in the media. Subjects include British jazz and the Black Creative City, the BBC and the politics of representation; racial struggles for work in post-civil rights Hollywood, Islamophobia in the news media, and online technologies, anti-racism and postcolonial communications. Keynote speakers are Tanika Gupta, MBE – award-winning playwright and screenwriter Mykaell Riley – Director of the Centre for Black Music Research, and ex-member of British reggae band Steel Pulse Other confirmed speakers include: Kim Allen (London Metropolitan University), Mark Banks (Open University), Rinella Cere (Sheffield Hallam University), Lee Edwards (Manchester Business, Julie Firmstone (University of Leeds), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds), Rupa Huq (Kingston University), Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester), School), Keir Keightley (University of Western Ontario), Sarita Malik (Brunel University), Chris Paterson (University of Leeds), Eithne Quinn (University of Manchester), Ash Sharma (University of East London), Sanjay Sharma (Brunel University), Annelies Thoelen (Hasselt University), Jason Toynbee (Open University) --- Sanaz Raji ICS PhD Scholar Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds Mobile: +44 (0) 785 4706 374 ICS URL: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/details.cfm?id=185&susername=cssr Guardian URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sanaz-raji