Seminar 2 Culture and Development 28-29 October 2011 (archive)

Culture and Development – Cultural Depictions and Identities
Media Practices, Fiction, Documentary Film making,Theater, Radio, Songs, and Visual Culture
Room: U302 both days

Friday 28 October

10.00-11.00 (8 – 9 AM GMT)

Welcome and review of MGD1 (Globalization and Communication) – AHH, OH, MR, HB
Introduction to MGD2 (Culture and Development) – AHH, OH

11.00-12.00 (9 – 10 AM GMT)

Agency, Media Practices, and Transnational Spaces
Magnus Andersson, Senior Lecturer/Researcher, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University

LUNCH

13.15 – 17 (11.15 AM – 3 PM GMT)

Lecture, film viewing and work shop
Fiction and Truth in Transition : Representations of conflict and post-conflict. Examples from Argentina, South Africa and former Yugoslavia.
Oscar Hemer, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University

After seminar beer at the Green Lion, Malmö (The pub also offers decent fish and chips etc).

Saturday 29 October

10.00 – 11.00 (8 – 9 AM GMT)

Theatre for Development and Fine and Performing Art at University of Dar es Salaam
Herbert Makoye, Head of Dept, Fine and Performing Art

11.00 – 12.00 (9 – 10 AM GMT)

BBC and the World
Hugo Boothby, Lecturer, School of Arts and Communication, formerly radio producer at BBC

LUNCH

13.00 – 14.00 (11 AM – 12 PM GMT)

Moving Between the Movements. Shapes of Protest, History and Dream in Bob Dylan’s 1960s songs
Anders Høg Hansen, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Communication

Coffee break

14.15-15.15 (12.15- 1.15 PM GMT)

Mediatization of everyday life, Youth cultures and processes of social change in Dar es Salaam
Ylva Ekström, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Communication

15.30 – 16.30 (1.30 – 2.30 PM GMT)

Open slot for wrapping up, questions, debate and possibly film viewing