Call for abstracts: masterclasses for PhD students

Posted by Silvia Van Aken on Wednesday November 24th 2010 at 09:47

From 1 January to 30 June 2011, professor Jostein Gripsrud of the University of Bergen (Norway), will reside as International Francqui Professor in Belgium. Within the context of his Francqui professorship, communication and media studies departments from the VUB, UGent and ULB organise a series of masterclasses for PhD students in the field of communication and media studies, for which a call for abstracts is now opened.

The masterclasses are organizes around four topics:

  • Changing structures of the public sphere
  • Media policy challenges in a context of convergence and multilevel governance
  • Screen cultures in digital times (narrative cinema, television, games, blogs, etc.)
  • The politics of popular culture

More information:  Francquimasterclass

Seminar Boeiende Verhalen & Scenario’s‏

Posted by Silvia Van Aken on Wednesday November 24th 2010 at 09:25

De Vlaamse Script Academie organiseert vanaf 5 februari 2011 een lessenreeks “Boeiende verhalen en scenario’s schrijven”. Deze opleiding is geschikt voor schrijvers, regisseurs, scenaristen en iedereen die zelf verhalen wil analyseren én schrijven. De klemtoon ligt op visueel en dramatisch vertellen. Het seminar is opgedeeld in twee delen.

In het gedeelte “terminologie” leer je een specifiek vakjargon gebruiken waarmee je op een meer objectieve manier over verhalen en vertellen kan communiceren. Daarna volgen concrete schrijfoefeningen.

In het gedeelte “methodologie” leer je verschillende werkwijzen kennen om (langere) verhalen op een efficiënte manier te construeren en uit te schrijven, alsook om die verhalen op hun dramatisch potentieel te analyseren en te evalueren.

Meer info: Vlaamse Script Academie

UNFIXED symposium and workshop

Posted by Bart Geerts on Monday September 20th 2010 at 20:19

On November 15 and 16 Unfixed organises a symposium and workshop on Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art which will explore photography’s relationship to changing notions of cultural histories, identities and representations. The symposium and workshop will take place in The Center for Contemporary Art in Dordrecht (The Netherlands). Parallel to the symposium there is an exhibition of a group of six international artists who re-construct and re-contextualize fixed versions of photographic history through their installations, found and vernacular images, sculpture, text and video. Participating are artists Charif Benhelima (BE 1967), Otobong Nkanga (FR 1974), Keith Piper (UK 1960), Naro Snackey (NL 1980), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (USA 1954) and Hank Willis Thomas (USA 1976). The artists will be present at the symposium together with Pamela Pattynama, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cultural History (University of Amsterdam) and art historian and critic Kobena Mercer.

For more information and registration see the Unfixed website.

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