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CEU Summer University: The Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS)

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The Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (CEU) is pleased to announce its 2011 course at the CEU Summer University, co-organized with Internews Network and the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

The course, “Communication Policy Advocacy, Technology, and Online Freedom of Expression: a Toolkit for Media Development,” will take place on June 20 – July 1, 2011, in Budapest.

Applications from all over the world are encouraged. The deadline for applications is March 20, 2011.

Please feel free to disseminate the attached flyer with more information. Additional information is available at http://www.summer.ceu.hu/communication .

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The Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS)

The CMCS is a research center at Central European University in Budapest, dedicated to advancing media and communication scholarship and policy throughout the region and beyond. The CMCS produces scholarly and practice-oriented research addressing academic, policy and civil society needs. CMCS research and activities address media and communication policy and the democratic potential of the media, civil society and participation, fundamental communication and informational rights, and the complexities of media and communication in transition.

Tel: (36-1) 327-3000 2607
E-mail: cmcs@ceu.hu
Website: cmcs.ceu.hu

DeXusChange 2009: Shaping Discourse to Come!

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*** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ***

An Alternative, International Summer School

on Discourse and Social Justice

Invited guests:

Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal

Lawrence Frey, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Shi-xu, Zhejiang University, China

Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University, Denmark

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Dates:

17th – 22nd August, 2009

Location:

Centre for Discourse Studies

Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Web site:

http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009

The recent emergence of a set of interlocking global crises — including climate, energy, food, water, finance — demands a renewed interdisciplinary effort to understand how to mediate the future, the past and the present in ways that attend to equity, justice and rights. The aim of this summer school is to bring together people investigating and promoting social change and transformation with an explicit focus on the role of discourse in shaping a just future (and the past). Discourse is understood as encompassing an interdisciplinary perspective on text, talk, discourse, genre, narrative, archive, document, image and rhetoric in all their modal, social and cultural forms, not only in terms of representation but also action and practice.

Themes within the interdisciplinary focus of the summer school will include the following clusters:

* Discourse/Style/Genre/Semiotics/Rhetorics

* Mediation/Modality/Action/Practice

* History/Narrative/Memory/Experience

* Change/Intervention/Critique/Social Justice

* Rights/Ethics/Care/Hope

* Suffering/Risk

* Identity/Gender/’Race’/Ethnicity/Kinship

* Belonging/Citizenship/Linking/Relationality

* Nature/Environment/Habitus/Context

* Interaction/Technology/Artefact

* Structure/Ordering/Organisation/Governance

* Space/Movement/Mobility/Flow/Scale

DeXusChange will interest students and scholars who work in the diverse fields of discourse studies, communication studies, development studies, globalisation studies, media studies, political science, sociology, history, anthropology, international studies, social movement studies, communication activism, participatory communication, critical journalism studies, action research, and human-centred communication and informatics.

DeXusChange 2009 draws upon the innovative pedagogical tradition at Aalborg University to experiment with a problem-based, project-centred research summer school for doctoral students and scholars who are engaged in interdisciplinary studies. Following on from the successful “DeXus:

Discourse Nexus” summer school series 2003-2006, the core concept in DeXusChange is the free play of ideas within the thematic context of group-derived problems and reflexive project work developed during the six fruitful days of the summer school.

Following the first two days of lectures and workshops by the invited guests, which will establish a common ground work, we concentrate over the following days on group project work. On the last day, all groups will come together to report on their findings, solutions and applications, with commentary and discussion from the guests and wayfinders. A poster session will take place during the first day for those who wish to present their research publicly. More details on the DeXusChange web site:

http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009.

The summer school is international and open to researchers, doctoral and graduate students. Please apply online at

http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009

For more academic information, contact the organisers:

DeXusChange Collective – dxc2009 (at) hum (dot) aau (dot) dk

The deadline for applying is 29th May 2009. The participation fee payment deadline is 15th June 2009.

The participation fee is 3500 Danish kroner (approx. 450 Euros), which covers administrative costs, tea/coffee and lunches every working day, one evening drinks reception (Monday) and one evening dinner (Thursday). More information on the web site. If you are enrolled as a doctoral student at a Danish University, then please see the web site for specific instructions. One free scholarship will be given to a qualified student from the Global South. Please see the website for more information about how to apply.

Warm regards, DeXusChange Collective

Ben Dorfman

Oscar Garcia

Inger Lassen

Paul McIlvenny

Pirkko Raudaskoski

The DeXusChange summer school is supported by the Centre for Discourse Studies, the Doctoral Programme in Discourse and Contemporary Culture, the Human-Centred Communication and Informatics Doctoral Programme, and the Department of Language and Culture at Aalborg University.