[Reader-list] Call for student papers from Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Mumbai

[Subuhi Jiwani]

FRAMES OF REFERENCE
Unpacking The Real: Contesting Media Realities
The first seminar of Centre for Media and Cultural Studies (CMCS)
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
January 29-30, 2009
www.unpackingthereal.wordpress.com
Distinctions between the real and the imagined are often understood in black and white. This seminar seeks to unsettle such simplistic binaries. It will critically examine the media’s representations of ‘reality’ and raise questions about its frames of reference. Does the media, fictional or non-fictional, propagate certain ideas about truth, the real and the world? The seminar will unpack representations of reality in news, documentary and fiction films.
Speakers will include eminent professionals from the media industry and academics working the area of Media and Cultural Studies.  Students from around the country will also present papers and research work.
The best student presentation will be awarded a cash prize.
Guidelines
Paper presentations must be made on the theme of ‘reality’ as mediated in news, documentary and fiction films.
The paper must be submitted along with the seminar application form. The word limit is 3000 words. The last date for submission is 15.01.2009. The application should be sent to:
Centre for Media and Cultural Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
V.N Purav Marg
Deonar, Mumbai 400088
Tel. No. 022 - 25525000
A nominal delegate fee of Rs. 200 will be charged.
About CMCS
The Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, (CMCS) is an independent centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, engaged in media teaching, production, research and dissemination. In 2007, it offered, for the first time, a two-year Master’s in Media and Cultural Studies. This seminar has been organised by the post-graduate students of the Centre.
A unique feature of the Centre is the close linkage between the technical and academic areas of its work. The work of the Centre straddles both realms, thus facilitating a synergy between research, teaching and production, all of which are informed by a keen sense of connection with local subaltern cultures of resistance and invention. The CMCS has done pioneering work in critical media education in the country.  It also has to its credit, twenty-one awards at national and international festivals.