Seminars

This is a seminar that is highly relevant to ComDev students and those working in the field of Communication for Development and we strongly recommend that you attend in Roskilde or follow the live webcast online if you can.

The seminar is on Wednesday May 8th, at Roskilde University in Denmark

Speakers for this 7th What Time is Global History seminar include Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Oscar Hemer.

Jan Nederveen Pieterse’s book Development Theory (2nd edition 2010) is a key text for the Communication for Development masters programme and this is an excellent opportunity to hear him speak.

Jan Nedverveen Pieterse’s lecture has the title ‘Histories of Globalization’ and he speaks at 13:15 – 13:45 CET (11:15 – 11:45 GMT).

Prof. Oscar Hemer, Communication for Development programme coordinator and co-director of the Örecomm Research group will speak on ‘Global Histories Through the Lens of Fiction’. Oscar speaks at14:15 – 14:45 CET (12:15 – 12:45 GMT).

The whole of this seminar will be broadcast in LIVE LECTURE for ComDev students or you can follow here on the ComDev Blog and orecomm.net

The seminar starts and 13:00 CET (11:00 GMT) and finishes 17:00 CET (15:00 GMT). For a full programme and concept note see here

The seminar takes place at Roskilde University, Denmark. Auditorium 45. See map

If you would like to attend in person please register here.

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The first ComDev seminar of the 2013 Spring term takes place on Friday February 8th and Saturday 9th.

Principally for students studying the Communication, Culture and Media Analysis course this seminar will introduce the Communication and Development Cooperation module and assignments.

This first spring seminar also has lectures from Tina Askanius, Lund University, who will be presenting her work on ‘YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices’  Friday 8th.

In cooperation with the Örecomm Research Group we are also very happy to have Eric van den Broek and Katarina Rejger presenting their ‘Video Letters Project’ on Saturday 9th. Video Letters was designed to further reconciliation among people from the former Yugoslavia who had once been friends but were estranged by the bloody nationalist conflicts of the early 1990s. Eric and Katarina have gone on to develop the video letters concept into a multimedia tool which has also been applied in Rwanda.

You can find a full schedule for both Friday 8th and Saturday 9th here

The seminar will take place at K3, in the ‘Radiostation’.

Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society, K3 – School of Arts and Communication
Venue: Östra Varvsgatan 11 C, See map From Malmö Central station take bus nr8 to V.Hamnen, get off at stop: Ubåtshallen.

The entrance to the Radiostation is on the ground floor of the Kranen Building.

 

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The Dutch film-makers Eric van den Broek and Katarina Rejger are guest lecturers at next week-end’s ComDev seminar (8-9 February). They had made several documentary films about the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990′s, when they embarked on an extraordinary project called “Videoletters, ” designed to further reconciliation among people from the former Yugoslavia who had once been friends and who had been separated and even alienated by the bloody nationalist conflict.
The idea was simple: someone who had lost touch with, say, a childhood friend or a lifelong neighbor from a different ethnic group was invited to record a message. The directors then traced and showed the video letter to the “lost” friend, who was usually eager to reply. In most cases, the exchange resulted in an emotional reunion.
Rather than revisiting horrors, the project seeks to demonstrate that reconciliation is possible, starting with individuals for whom ethnic differences were unimportant – many former Yugoslavs are themselves of mixed extraction – until the conflicts convulsed their lives.
Some of these video letters have been broadcast by television stations in each of the seven nations that were once Yugoslavia – Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia.
Eric van den Broek and Katarina Rejger have developed the multi media tool and applied it in Rwanda as well. They have received the Human Rights Nestor Almendros Prizefor courage in film making.
The Örecomm Open Seminar on the Videoletters project is in Radiostationen, Ö Varvsgatan 11 C, Saturday 9 February, 12-15

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Transdisciplinary exploration of Bangalore

by Oscar Hemer January 14, 2013 Seminars

The conference Mediating Modernity in the 21st Century: Rethinking & Remembering, held 24-25 January at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India, is the core event of an ongoing experimental project of artistic and academic collaboration between Srishti and K3, Malmö University. The Memories of Modernity project, involving students and faculty at [...]

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Welcome to be our LIVE audience for the ReGen12@Malmo Performance!

by Ylva Ekström November 11, 2012 Live Lecture

The seminar “Social Engagement at the Intersection of Ethnography and Theatre/Performance” will result in a performance at 5 pm Swedish time (4 pm GMT) today (11 November). Most welcome to be our LIVE audience in the Blackbox (see directions below) or by following the live-stream here on the ComDev portal. The performance will be followed by [...]

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To the workshop participants 9-11 November

by Oscar Hemer November 1, 2012 Seminars

By way of preparation for next week-end’s four-step workshop (in conjuntion with the seminar), participants are requested to write a short 1/2 page response to the following, and send to the seminar organizers (Oscar Hemer and/or Ylva Ekström) by Friday 2 November (1) What is your name, age, email address, and your country of origin? [...]

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90 Percent Degree Project (MA Thesis) Seminar 8 Nov

by Anders Hög Hansen October 31, 2012 Seminars

You are welcome to attend (online via the course sites, not the portal) the 90 Percent Degree Project Seminar on Communication for Development. It takes place Thursday 8 Nov 2012 09.00-14.00 (Swedish time) The 90 Percent seminar is the last seminar event on the final course on ComDev. A future examiner (feedback lecturer) gives oral feedback on a nearly completed [...]

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Weaving theory, method, and analysis: Revisiting the crisis of representation – Workshop with George Marcus

by Hugo Boothby October 23, 2012 Seminars

Organised by Ørecomm Centre for Communication and Glocal Change Monday 29 October 2012, 9.30-11.30, Roskilde University, CBIT 44-3.40 The crisis of representation, instigated by George Marcus among others, irrevocably influenced anthropology and other social sciences in the mid-80′s. Today the literary awareness which it inspired is taught in many classrooms and the perception of ethnographic truths [...]

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ComDev Seminar – Ethnography, Theatre, and Social Change Re-Generation@Malmö

by Hugo Boothby October 17, 2012 Seminars

In Collaboration with the Örecomm Research Group and the Re-Generation Initiative, Malmö University’s Communication for Development masters programme is presenting a three day seminar exploring Ethnography, Theatre and Social Change. Running from Friday November 9th through until Sunday November 11th Ethnography, Theatre, and Social Change Re-Generation@Malmö will focus on the intersection of ethnography and theatre as a [...]

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Reminder: Wendy Willems in Malmö 31 May

by Ylva Ekström May 28, 2012 Seminars

On Thursday 31 May, 3-5 pm, Communication for Development has the honour of hosting the Ørecomm Open Seminar with Wendy Willems. The title of the seminar is “Researching everyday media cultures and social change in Africa: towards a ‘demotic turn’” and builds on Dr Willems extensive experience of media research in southern Africa. The seminar is [...]

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