ECREA Diaspora, Media and Migration section; School of Media, Film and Music and
Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies
Multiculturalism: Where Do We Go from Here?
Programme
Friday March 28
10 - 10:30 Registration and refreshments Silverstone building 3rd floor social space
10:30 - 12 Welcome and key note by Sarita Malik (Arts A building 103)
12 - 1 Buffet lunch Silverstone building 3rd floor social space
1 - 2:30 Sessions
Session 1 Multiculturalism: Misguided Policies? (Fulton building 101)
Marta Cola (University of Bedfordshire)
Multiculturalism in Italy: ‘crisis’, ‘failure’ or ‘absence’?
Cynthia Okpokiri (University of Sussex)
Multiculturalism
Linnete Manrique
Multiculturalism in Neoliberal Mexico
Chair: Gholam Khiabany
Session 2: Media, migration and inclusion (Fulton building 103)
Irati Agirreazkuenaga (University of Glasgow) and Ainara Larrondo (University of the
Basque Country)
Beyond a radio for immigrants: Communication strategies to build inclusive identities within
the Basque cultural-linguistic tradition
Susan Ashley (Northumbria University)
Public multi-culture practices and the politics of recognition in Canada
Chun Chen (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Media Use and Social Integration: An Empirical Study of Student Migrants in Switzerland
Marianne Leppik (University of Tartu, Estonia)
The role of media in the recent immigrant’s lives: supporter of transnational identities or
accelerator of acculturation?
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Chair: Kevin Smets
Session 3: National conversations? Public service media and cultural diversity in
Europe (Room TBC)
Sarita Malik (Brunel University)
'Diversity, broadcasting and the politics of representation'
Isabel Awad (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Jiska Engelbert (Erasmus University
Rotterdam)
Between diversity and pluriformity: the "new style" of Dutch broadcasting
Gavan Titley (NUI Maynooth)
Ireland. The ‘migration nation': public service media responses between discourse and
desire'
Chair: Gavan Titley
2: 30 - 3 Coffee break Silverstone building 3rd floor social space
3:00 – 4:30 Sessions
Session 1: “Them” versus “Us” (Bramber House 230)
Elizabeth Poole (Keele University)
Narratives of Parallel Media and Segregated Communities: Muslims in the UK Media
Context
Milly Williamson (Brunel University) and Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths)
Race and Free Speech: “Ours” and “Theirs”
Koen Leurs (London School of Economics)
Digital throwntogetherness
Fathi Bourmeche (University of Gabés, Tunisia)
EU Immigration in British Media and Heightening of the Debate on Multiculturalism
Chair: Tristan Mattelart
Session 2: Relocating People and Cultural Expressions (Essex House 06)
Sara Marino (University of Westminster)
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Brain drain and brain circulation: How digital media participate in the construction of Italian
self-esteem abroad
Ann Sayu Mabel (Hamburg University)
African women's use of media for cultural identity
Xiao Wang and Maria Prause (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The relocation of Chinese musical traditions in Western
form
Cigdem Bozdag (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Policies of migration and media in Germany. Oscillating between a guiding culture and
cultural diversity
Chair: Marta Cola
5 – 6 Welcome reception Silverstone building 3rd floor social space
7 dinner in Brighton
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Saturday March 29
10 – 10:30 Refreshments Silverstone 3rd floor building social space
10:30 – 12 Key note by Miyase Christensen (Silverstone Building 309)
12 - 1 Buffet lunch Silverstone 3rd floor building social space
1 – 2:30 Sessions
Session 1: Diasporas (Silverstone building 317)
Pablo Sapag (Madrid Complutense University)
Building an identity. Chilean Arab diaspora and the digital media
Kevin Smets (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Polarized by pop culture? Kurdish and Turkish diaspora youngsters in London, ethnic
polarization, and the media
Magdalena Ratajczak (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
Diaspora Diplomacy: Polish Diaspora as a Tool of Public Diplomacy
Alakija Oluwafunmilayo ‘Bode (University of Leicester)
Home, Identity and Media Practices among First and Second Generation Members of
Nigerian Diaspora in Peckham
Chair: Monika Metykova
Session 2 Multiculturalism and Urban Settings (Silverstone building 325)
Tae-sik Kim (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Misrepresented Multiculturalism in Korea: A Semiotic Analysis of the Multicultural Museum
and Multicultural Street
Thibaut Raboin (University College London)
A queer, multicultural East End: Tolerance, queer optimism and multiculturalism in the East
London Gay Pride
Michael Skey (University of East Anglia)
‘There are times when I feel like a bit of an alien’: How liminality, life-cycle and loss pattern
the experiences of Australian middling migrants in London
Chair: TBC
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2:30 – 3 Refreshments Silverstone building Silverstone 3rd floor building social space
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Publication meeting (Silverstone building 317)
Chair: Monika Metykova
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