Ateneo Comm Conference: Come One, Come All!

This one-day conference aims to bring together scholars and students to explore the centrality of the media in the social, cultural, and ethical aspects of transnational life. Featuring plenary lectures from Mirca Madianou (Sociology, University of Cambridge) and Daniel Miller (Anthropology, University College London) and paper presentations from Ateneo Comm scholars, Boundaries & Belongings promises to open up a space to discuss how the increased mobility of peoples in a globalizing world raise significant new questions relating to:

* Identity: Negotiating self and other in spaces of difference
* Citizenship: Political engagement of diasporic communities
* Media and Communications: Centrality of media and communications in processes of social inclusion and exclusion

Admission is FREE!
Cocktails will be served.
Students and scholars from all departments are invited!

See you there! =)

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Jon's Note:
This is a chance for individuals interested in media and communications to come together and candidly discuss something supremely relevant to our lives today: how much of our lives are affected by what happens elsewhere? How is the nature of love, care, lust, and also hate and indifference, transformed by new technologies? Where do our dreams, desires, and loyalties lie in an age of altogetherness and allatonceness?

* Comm majors: This is our chance to come together as a CommUnity! We've got Madianou (Contested Communicative Spaces: Turks in Greece) and Miller (Young and the Restless in Trinidad) speaking--people you've read in ComRes and MAG and Com100 and Audiences! And you have a chance to grill some of your own teachers as they present their work-in-progress papers. (To the Comm majors who feel that their course is fluffy and unimportant and un-cerebral compared to the other courses, here's your chance to see how important and critical our discipline is to our understanding of modern society! Treat this as your PABAON, especially for the seniors about to graduate!)

* Comm alumni: It's reunion time! See your friends, frenemies and teachers and how they've aged (or not). But seriously, it's one Saturday of brainfood AND good fun! It's no Comm event if there's not a lot of gossip to be traded! Come on, people! Go na!!!

* Industry Professionals and Scholars: A chance to exchange ideas across our own disciplinary borders! As academics, we'd love to hear different perspectives to the things that we study. Please email me at jo296@cam.ac.uk if you wish to reserve a lunch spot (subject to availability).