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Ricardo Gomez



>First announcement and call for papers (please circulate)
>
>Seminar "CULTURE, COMMUNICATION AND POWER"
>Convention Hall, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi (India)
>21, 22, 23 April 1997
>
>Organised by:
>
>Centre de Sciences Humaines (French Centre for Human Sciences, CSH,
>New Delhi) and Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences
>(CCRSS, Pune)
>
>
>This seminar attemps to respond to the interlinkages of these three
>concepts, culture, communication and power, and will address:
>
>- How basic economic, social, ideological and cultural forces
>condition communication, and how, in turn, communication reflects
>and affects our comprehension of these processes;
>- Secondly, how certain communication practices and theory have
>evolved within a given system of social relations, and how
>alternative forms are emerging to activate processes of social,
>political and cultural transformations.
>
>
>Themes
>
>1.      The role of communication in development programs: emerging
>issues and new challenges
>
>- The "message": ideas about development (indicators, paradigms...)
>- The "source": agencies communicating development (State, NGO's,
>voluntary organisations)
>- The "channel": means of communicating developmental messages
>(mass media, interpersonal, mediators...)
>-       The "reader/audience": beneficiaries of development
>programmes (individuals, participation of social groups,
>cooperation of people...)
>
>2.      Communication technology: problems and prospects
>
>-       Communication technology as a source of intervention
>-       Audiovisual media and its interface with traditional forms
>-       Appropriation of communication technology: emancipation or
>enslavement?
>
>3.      Gesture, speech, and image: their status yesterday and
>today
>
>-       Identity and cultural expression: language, visual and
>performing arts...
>-       Myth, history and popular memory in present-day social life
>-       Dialogue with the diversity: cross-cultural experiences,
>high/low culture, and rural/urban dichotomy
>
>
>Background
>
>This seminar is the second in a series of encounters initiated with
>the international seminar "Communication Processes and Social
>Transformations" organised in Pune (January 8-13, 1996) by the
>Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences with support of
>the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation.  The Pune seminar brought
>together social animators, scholars and media people eager to
>investigate practices of communication with regard to their
>particular dimensions as social processes.
>
>The planned seminar will reiterate the exercise of bridging gaps
>between the academic world and that of social actors concerned with
>structural change.  It is aimed at presenting research prompted by
>concrete situations in which insights on educational, cultural and
>development issues are expected to contribute to social
>transformations.
>
>Interdisciplinary contributions are welcome so far as they reflect
>a commitment to the dynamics of action-research rather than a
>juxtaposition of theoretical viewpoints.
>
>The seminar should activate an analytical process that will not be
>conducted individually, but rather as a cooperative group process
>of sharing one's actual experiences.
>
>
>Contributions
>
>Contributions are welcome in the form of papers (15 pages), short
>notes and comments (3 pages), posters and audiovisual material.
>Acceptance will be notified after receiving a 500-word abstract,
>which may include copies of audiovisual documents.  Papers in final
>form shall be received before the seminar to ensure circulation
>among the participants.  After the seminar, a selection of papers
>will be published in book form along with proceedings.
>
>
>Important dates
>
>Abstracts and audiovisual material should be received by 31 January
>1997.
>Notification of acceptance will be sent before 15 February 1997.
>Final papers should be received in print-out and electronic format
>(floppy disk) before 15 March 1997.  (We can make arrangements for
>converting or creating electronic documents.)
>
>
>Communication media
>
>The language for abstracts and final documents is English.  We may
>provide translation facilities for text and verbal communication in
>a few Indian and European languages.
>
>Equipment will be available on site for audiovisual presentations:
>VHS, Hi-8 video, slides, CD-ROMs, etc.  Please send detailed
>requirements in advance.
>
>
>Contact
>
>Bernard Bel
>CSH, 2, Aurangzeb road, New Delhi 110 011 (India)
>Fax: (91) 11 301 8480
>Email: bel@csh.delnet.ernet.in
>
>Guy Poitevin
>CCRSS, Rairkar Bungalow, 884 Deccan Gymkhana, Pune 411 004 (India)
>Email: guy@giaspn01.vsnl.net.in
>
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>= I would like to attend the seminar "CULTURE, COMMUNICATION AND
>POWER"
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>= I wish to present a contribution
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>= I wish to present audiovisual documents
>     Details:
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>= I may not attend the seminar, but I am interested in more
>information about the event and following publications
>
>Name:
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>Postal address:
>Tel:
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>Electronic mail:
>Mail to: bel@csh.delnet.ernet.in, guy@giaspn01.vsnl.net.in
>
>
>Bernard Bel, CNRS & Centre de Sciences Humaines
>2, Aurangzeb road, New Delhi 110 011  India
>Email: bel@csh.delnet.ernet.in   NO FILE LARGER THAN 79K!
>Fax (91) 11 301 84 80   Voice (91) 11 301 4173 / 301 6259
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Ricardo Gomez -- Claudia Martinez

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