This symposium aims to bring together scholars specialised in media and communication studies, who work interdisciplinarily across literature, journalism, discourse analysis, politics, PR and sociology to discuss the role the media plays in Europe and the United States in the 21st century.

Although this idea may seem obvious at first glance, this reflection raises other questions that are less tangible when considering issues of race, class, gender, language and geopolitics as defining constituents of a sense of belonging, of “self” against “other(s)”, of entitlement, rights and privilege.

In this respect, the different guest speakers will analyse how the media and communication sector, challenges, establishes, settles and negotiates hegemonic social orders, while simultaneously opening up spaces for political action and intervention that destabilises, in higher or lesser degrees, notions of nationhood, citizenship and justice, among others.
It also problematises the fact that glocal realities are broadcasted and “reported” within a globalising information society.

Prof. Federico Subervi, Texas State University-San Marcos. “The Media Do Make a Difference: New Directions in the Study of Media and Latino Political Mobilization”

Dr. Xavier Giró, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. “Neocolonialism in the Discourse of Media: Nationalism and Migrations. Theoretical and Practical Aspects”

Dr. Joan Cuenca-Fontobna. Universitat Ramón Llull, Spain. “Let’s talk about Gender? Presence and Absence in PR Discursive Practices and Strategies.”

Dr. Klaus Zilles. Universitat Ramón Llull, Spain. “Performing Linguistic Identity and Integration: The Politics of Interpellation in the Catalonian Media”

For further information please contact: A.Wehbe@mmu.ac.uk

October 31st, 2012 - 10:04am

Sandra Burslem Building, All Saints Campus, MMU

10am – 3.30pm

Download Programme (PDF)

For further information, please contact Isabelle Vanderschelden
(i.vanderschelden@mmu.ac.uk) or Carmen Herrero (c.herrero@mmu.ac.uk)

May 24th, 2012 - 09:42am

Taking place on Wednesday 15 February 3-4 GM 104

All welcome

Contact: Carmen Herrero,

Acting Head of Languages Information and Communications

email: c.herrero@mmu.ac.uk

February 2nd, 2012 - 09:30am

Monday 11^th July 2011 in the Geoffrey Manton Building, room GM 107-  MMU, Rosamond Street West, Manchester.

July 5th, 2011 - 10:02am

Your chance to help the children and families of Japan…..

If the shocking images and reports that have come out of Japan in the aftermath of the massive earthquake and the devastating tsunami have left you thinking ‘What can I do to help when I live so far away?’ then here’s your chance to make a real difference.

Dr Ryoko Sasamoto and colleagues in the Department of Languages and the Manchester Japanese community invite you to a special screening of the award-winning Japanese film: ‘Still Walking’ (a moving Japanese family film that’s impossible to watch without a lump in your throat)

When: Thursday 5th May ( ‘Children’s Day’ in Japan)

Doors open from 6pm, screening starts at 6.30pm.

Where: Manchester Lecture Theatre, All Saints Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Donations will be collected on behalf of the British Red Cross and Save The Children to help children and families recover from this unimaginable devastation.

For more details email: r.sasamoto@mmu.ac.uk or tel Dr Ryoko Sasamoto: 0161 247 3939

April 21st, 2011 - 10:52am

Your chance to help the children and families of Japan…..

If the shocking images and reports that have come out of Japan in the aftermath of the massive earthquake and the devastating tsunami have left you thinking ‘What can I do to help when I live so far away?’ then here’s your chance to make a real difference.

Dr Ryoko Sasamoto and colleagues in the Department of Languages and the Manchester Japanese community invite you to a special screening of the award-winning Japanese film: ‘Still Walking’ (a moving Japanese family film that’s impossible to watch without a lump in your throat)

When: Thursday 5th May ( ‘Children’s Day’ in Japan)

Doors open from 6pm, screening starts at 6.30pm.

Where: Manchester Lecture Theatre, All Saints Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Donations will be collected on behalf of the British Red Cross and Save The Children to help children and families recover from this unimaginable devastation.

For more details email: r.sasamoto@mmu.ac.uk or tel Dr Ryoko Sasamoto: 0161 247 3939

April 21st, 2011 - 10:50am

March 23rd, 2011 - 16:15pm

A project led by MMU’s Languages Department and set up to provide specialist training to teachers of community languages in the North West has been awarded a prestigious European Award for Languages, after having had such a positive impact on language teaching and community cohesion in the area.

The award, which is co-ordinated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages, recognises innovation in language learning. The Community and lesser-taught languages project (COLT) was set up by Routes into Languages North West, to address the issue that many community languages teachers in the area had never had any access to formal training or professional development.

Routes North West worked with partner universities to deliver courses that teachers could attend around family commitment, and the result was the creation of a supportive and more confident group of Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Urdu language teachers who could directly influence language learning across the region.

Dr Sharon Handley, Director of Routes into Languages North West and Head of Languages here at MMU, said:

‘We are absolutely delighted to have won a European Award for Languages as this provides external recognition of the innovation and quality of the work we have been doing. We believe that this project provides an important building block in the development of a strategy for teaching a wider portfolio of world languages in the UK by providing a framework for training native speakers of world languages to teach their own language.’

To find out more about this year’s winning project, visitwww.cilt.org.uk/eal or visit www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northwest

November 2nd, 2010 - 10:56am