Cities and Media: Cultural Perspectives on Urban Identities in a Mediatized World : European Science Foundation

ESF-LiU Conference

CITIES AND MEDIA - CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN IDENTITIES IN A MEDIATIZED WORLD

Chaired by

CHAIR:

http://www.liu.se/

CO-CHAIR:

NickCouldryE-Mail: University of LondonGoldsmiths CollegeMedia and CommunicationsLondonUnited Kingdom

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/

Dates

25-29 October 2006

Location

Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden
The conference will take place at Klosterhotel in Vadstena, Sweden. Vadstena is located in the south-eastern province of Östergötland, in a lovely natural setting on the shores of beautiful Lake Vättern, offering comfortable accommodation in a historic environment. During the Middle Ages, Vadstena was the location of a catholic monastery for monks and nuns of the Birgittine order and nowadays the conference center and hotel is largely located in the same medieval buildings that were once the monastery. With 5 600 inhabitants, Vadstena is 45 km from Linköping and 330 km from Stockholm. Group transportation will be arranged from/to Linköping airport, via Linköping train station, on arrival and departure days.

Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants

Cities and media have a long history in common. While new media restructure city life, complex cities nourish new media forms. Today’s global megacities accumulate enormous media resources, in the form of mass media and interactive tools for communication. Built urban environments are imbued with mediated city images that attract visitors and transforms modern subjects into spectators of urban landscapes where public and private life mix. This conference joins themes from urban, media and cultural research to highlight the interplay of symbolic forms and mediated interaction with the development of urban environments, including questions of how cities as well as their inhabitants and visitors identify themselves and each other, in the context of the expanding transnational flows of people, money and media. The interfaces between physical cityscapes, intersectional identity formations and intermedial representations of “place identities” offer unique insights into current processes of cultural change. It will discuss how media make big cities attractors for secular pilgrims drawn to the centre of events, and how the meanings of cities are contested in confrontations between different social groups.

Final Programme PDF (147 KB) Last Updated 18-October-2006
List of Invited Speakers & Accepted Participants

Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide

Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration & fee payments, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...

GROUP TRANSPORTATION

Buses will be arranged on both arrival and departure days between Linköping airport via Linköping train station and the hotel. The journey takes approximately 45 minutes.
On Wednesday 25 October, bus departure times will be as follows:
- Linköping airport: 17.00 - Linköping train station: 17.15
- Linköping airport: 18.00 - Linköping train station: 18.15
- Linköping airport: 19.00 - Linköping train station: 19.15
On Sunday 29 October, group transportation back to Linköping airport via Linköping train station will be arranged in a similar way. Buses will be leaving Vadstena Klosterhotel at: 08.00 and 09.00.

Practical Information Guide PDF (64 KB)

Conference Fees

Fees (1)	What the fees cover
EUR 860	conference, meals and single room
EUR 710	conference, meals and twin OR double room (2)
EUR 400	non-resident: conference, meals (no room)
(1) A 100 EUR supplement is charged on any payment received after the closing date for registration (see above) (2) Board & lodging for accompanying guests (in double room with conferee) must be arranged and paid to the hotel.

Registration Form

All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form.
Closing date for registration & fee payment: 27 September 2006