>> 7th Annual
>> Global Fusion Conference
>>
>> Contested Intersections:
>> publics, movements, institutions
>>
>> Sheraton Westport Hotel
>> St Louis, Missouri
>>
>> Friday 2pm September 7th
>> to
>> Sunday midday September 9th
>>
>> This year's conference theme is the interface between media research, media
>> arts, media professions and media activism. As usual, an international focus
>> will be evident. Proposals for conference panels and papers are encouraged to
>> focus within this area, but in principle may be on any communication-related
>> topic.
>>
>> Panel proposals are due by February 28 to [log in to unmask] Include up
>> to 500 words abstract; plus names, affiliations, email addresses and
>> telephone
>> numbers of all panelists; plus a copy of an email from each panelist
>> signifying commitment to participate.
>>
>> Paper proposals are due by April 30 to [log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Abstracts of up to 250 words; plus name(s),
>> affiliations, email addresses and telephone number(s) of author(s).
>>
>> More information will be posted at intervals on the Southern Illinois
>> University, Carbondale, Global Media Research Center site: www.gmrc.siu.edu
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
>>
>>
>> AN INTERNATIONAL/INTERCULTURAL
>> COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
>>
>> The Purpose of the Global Fusion Conference Series is to promote academic
>> excellence in international-intercultural communications studies worldwide.
>> These conferences bring together scholars and professionals interested in
>> mass
>> communications, journalism, comparative broadcasting, diplomacy,
>> transnational
>> communication, advertising, new technology, media economics and
>> privatization,
>> cultural effects, visual communication, media and international law, and
>> global dialogues in search of peace.
>>
>> AWARDS
>>
>> Cash prizes: $200 and $150 awarded to competition winners (one faculty and
>> one
>> graduate student), and top papers will be published in the Global Media
>> Journal,  the official journal of the conference series. The peer-reviewed
>> paper competition is conducted by members of the International Communication
>> Division of AEJMC, Intercultural Development Division of ICA, and the
>> International Division of BEA.
>>
>> GLOBAL FUSION CONSORTIUM SPONSORS
>>
>> The Global Fusion Conference series is sponsored by participating
>> universities
>> of the Global Fusion Consortium:
>>
>> OHIO UNIVERSITY
>> College of Communication <http://www.commcoll.ohiou.edu/> , Dr. Gregory J.
>> Shepherd, Dean
>>
>> PURDUE UNIVERSITY-CALUMET
>> School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
>> <http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/lass/> , Dr. Daniel Dunn, Dean
>>
>> SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
>> College of Mass Communication & Media Arts <http://mcma.siu.edu/> , Dr.
>> Manjunath Pendakur, Dean
>>
>> UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
>> College of Communication <http://communication.utexas.edu/> , Dr. Roderick P.
>> Hart, Dean
>>
>> STEERING COMMITTEE
>>
>> Members of the GFC Steering Committee are:  Professors Joe Straubhaar
>> (Texas),
>> Drew McDaniel (Ohio) Manju Pendakur (SIU), and Yahya Kamalipour (Purdue Cal)
>>
>> KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
>>
>> ANJALI MONTEIRO to be Main Keynote Speaker at 2007 Global Fusion conference,
>> St Louis, Friday September 7 ­ Sunday September 9
>>
>> Dr Anjali Monteiro is a documentary film-maker and university professor of
>> media studies at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of
>> Social Sciences, Mumbai, to which she has been attached since 1983. Currently
>> she is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Center for South Asian Studies at
>> Berkeley. She has also been attached to the University of Western Sydney and
>> has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway.
>> She has been a visiting faculty member at many leading Indian university
>> campuses, including the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai; the Asian
>> College of Journalism, Chennai; the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
>> and the Mudra Institute of Communication Arts, Ahmedabad.
>>
>> Her documentaries, jointly produced and directed with her colleague and
>> spouse, K.P. Jayasankar, have won a whole series of national and
>> international
>> awards. They include Pani Panchayat (1986); Lage Jiva Ghar Ghar: A Document
>> on
>> Women and Shelter (1990); The Plot Thickens (1993); Identity - The
>> Construction of Selfhood (1994); Odhni - A Collective Exploration of Our
>> Selves, Our Bodies (1993); Kahankar: Ahankar [Story Maker: Story Taker]
>> (1995); YCP 1997 [voices from Yerawada Central Prison, Pune]; Jungle Tales:
>> Surviving Development in Uttara Kannada (1999); Saacha [The Loom] (2001);
>> Naata: The Bond [on communal harmony] (2003); SheWrite (2005) and Gender
>> Unpack (2006).
>> She is active in Films for Freedom, a campaign of over 250 documentary
>> filmmakers opposing censorship in India.
>>
>> Her current teaching focuses on television texts and audiences, critical
>> analysis of development communication, and documentary film.
>>
>> Her published research, mostly authored with various colleagues, addresses
>> issues of media education, development, documentary film, audiences and
>> spectatorship, and gender.
>>
>> The SIUC organizing committee (John Downing, Walter Jaehnig, Sarah Kanouse,
>> Jyotsna Kapur, Cinzia Padovani, Jake Podber, Deborah Tudor) is extremely
>> pleased that Dr Anjali Monteiro has agreed to keynote Global Fusion this
>> year.
>> Her blend of creative artistry, teaching, research, and engagement with
>> social
>> issues, means she can bring to bear on our discussions a rich experience of
>> the majority of zones of media activity highlighted in this year¹s conference
>> theme. We are delighted to welcome her.
>>
>> Her keynote address will be as follows:
>>
>> Spaces for Dialogue- Rethinking Critical Media Praxis in India
>> Anjali Monteiro
>>
>> This presentation is a reflection on what it means for Œalternative¹ media
>> praxis to engage with the new sites of contestation that have emerged in the
>> wake of new media and communication technologies in an India that is
>> neo-liberal, market-oriented and rapidly globalising. Negotiating this
>> treacherous and complex cultural terrain involves questioning two-dimensional
>> notions of power, where the activist/practitioner intervenes Œon behalf of¹
>> the oppressed. It means questioning the safe space where one stands. It means
>> looking at media institutions, discourses and audiences not as seamless,
>> consistent entities but as contradictory spaces, which offer possibilities
>> for
>> a foot in the door. The presentation will discuss issues such as impact,
>> censorship and new modes of networking and distribution.
>>
>> Paul D. Miller, ³Rhythm Science²
>>
>> Paul D. Miller's award winning Rhythm Science collection of essays (MIT
>> Press,
>> 2004) - named among the books of the year by The Guardian (UK) - explores the
>> hidden connections between collage based aesthetics and what Miller likes to
>> call the "politics of perception". His lectures unpack some of the issues
>> that
>> modern artists face: intellectual property, ownership of ideas, and above
>> all,
>> how art navigates the complex culture of digital media. Miller's discussion
>> will focus on how "sound" acts as an invisible theater where the distinction
>> between sound art, information, and digital production methods are viewed as
>> tools for the creative spirit of the artist in a world that is rapidly
>> becoming more and more connected in unexpected and sometimes astonishing
>> ways.
>> Miller's lecture will be an hour, and is accompanied by his use of many
>> historic texts, rare audio recordings and films to demonstrate the complex
>> relationship between text and art in a multimedia context.
>>
>> Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is a conceptual artist,
>> writer, and musician working in New York City. A writer for numerous
>> publications, Miller is Co-Publisher of the respected multi-cultural magazine
>> A Gathering of the Tribes, and was the first Editor-At-Large of the cutting
>> edge digital media magazine Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture. His
>> artwork has appeared in a wide variety of contexts including the Whitney
>> Biennial; the Venice Biennale for Architecture (year 2000); the Ludwig Museum
>> in Cologne, Germany; the Kunsthalle, Vienna; the Andy Warhol Museum in
>> Pittsburgh; and a host of other museums and galleries.
>>
>> Miller is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed persona".
>> Under that guise, Miller has performed extensively throughout the world. He
>> has recorded a huge volume of music and has collaborated with pre-eminent
>> musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch
>> Morris, Kool Keith aka Doctor Octagon, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko
>> Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth. Miller has remixed records by
>> artists
>> ranging from Metallica to Steve Reich. His own records include Riddim Warfare
>> (Outpost/Geffen); Songs of a Dead Dreamer, The Viral Sonata, and Synthetic
>> Fury (all on Asphodel); and Necropolis (Knitting Factory Works), His latest
>> CD
>> is Drums of Death, with Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Chuck D. of Public Enemy and
>> other notable collaborators. Other recent productions are "Optometry"
>> (Thirsty
>> Ear Records), featuring jazz pianist Matthew Shipp and his band;
>> "Dubtometry",
>> a remix of the same, with collaborators Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad
>> Professor;
>> and "Celestial Mechanix", a remix of material from Thirsty Ear Records.
>>
>> In addition to a regular schedule of DJ'ing, lecturing, and producing music,
>> Miller continues to perform "DJ Spooky's Rebirth Of a Nation" at theaters
>> around the world. The piece was first commissioned by the Lincoln Center
>> Festival, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Vienna Festival and the Festival
>> D'Automne in Paris. The DVD of "Rebirth Of a Nation" is set for release by
>> Starz Media in November 2007. His website: www.djspooky.com
>> <http://www.djspooky.com/>
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