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? 1 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) 2 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 3 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 4 2:30 – 3 Refreshments Silverstone building Silverstone 3rd floor building social space 3–4 Publication meeting (Silverstone building 317) Chair: Monika Metykova 5