Conference program

An international conference organised by the EU Excellence Team MINORITYMEDIA (University of Poitiers) together with the research centre MIGRINTER (CNRS-UMR 6588).

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (MSHS), Poitiers (France)

A simultaneous translation French / English is provided during plenary sessions and the session 1. Other parallel sessions are conducted in English.

Keynote speakers:

- Prof. Sirma BILGE (CEETUM, University of Montréal)

- Prof. Kevin ROBINS (City University London)

- Prof. Daya THUSSU (University of Westminster)

58 communication papers presented into 11 parallel sessions.

1 roundtable organised with several journalists of ethnic minority media in Europe.

This international conference focuses on people who experience deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation and who develop or sustain distinct identities and social relations within and across nation-states, through ethnic minority media. The purpose is to understand the growing role of mediated communication in defining meanings, uses and appropriations of cultural, religious and social space. It aims to analyse, within the framework of ethnic minority media, the perception of the feeling of belonging, the collective (re)presentation of the Self, as well as the cultural and religious practices. The central question is: what role the ethnic minority media play in imagining and mobilising new communities of belonging, or transforming them in the context of globalisation and cultural diversity?

Detailed program of the conference:

Video of the conference: http://uptv.univ-poitiers.fr/migrin...

A radio broadcast from the conference - in French (Agora FM & EPRA network, France) :