2nd International Conference: Imaging Social Movements Plenary Speakers: Mark Poster (University of California at Irvine) Jimmy McGovern (Film Maker, Bloody Sunday) Others to be confirmed The Social and Cultural Movements Group, Edge Hill College, UK Thursday 1st July to Saturday 3rd July 2004 2nd Call for Papers Following the success of its 2002 conference: Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians, the Social Movements Group is organising a 2nd International Conference for Summer 2004, exploring the theme of the construction of images, representations and articulations of social movements. The effectiveness of social movements has always relied not only upon the political activity and its theoretical conception, but also upon its cultural representation and aesthetics. The changing media, cultural and technological landscape has transformed the means and media by which social movements can create and contest their 'image', and how others create and contest images of them. This conference aims to bring together social movement researchers across the social sciences and humanities in considering questions of conception, process and outcomes in the imaging social movements - past, present and future. Proposed indicative strands include: * Social Movements and the Internet * Social Movements and Popular Film * The Mechanics of Representation * Narratives/Literatures and Social Movements * Media construction of Opposition * The Documentary Tradition * Performance of Subversion * Social Movements and Popular TV * Imaging Resistance and Cultural Politics We welcome traditional papers, posters and less traditional audio-visual presentations.Send proposals with abstract of 150-200 words by 31st March 2004 to Roger Spalding/Lee Salter Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 4QP. UK Email: salterl@edgehill.ac.uk Web site: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/ Lee Salter Lecturer in Media and Communications Edge Hill College, St Helen's Road Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP Email: salterl@edgehill.ac.uk Tel: 01695 584374