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Freedom and Communication:
A Day-Conference and Colloquium arranged by the Philosophical
Society of England
City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V OHB. Saturday, 21st May 2011, 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Citizenship and identity
are increasingly complex issues. In the EU, for example, citizens are officially
members of a nation state, but many share family and languages beyond the
Union. Access to many hundreds of satellite television channels in different
languages is available in many parts of the world, and the choices citizens
make amongst these reflect and influence not only their conceptions of
their own identity but also their conflicting conceptions of freedom.
PROGRAMME Political and cultural citizenship - the role of the media Speakers: Christina Slade, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, City University, London. Professor Slade is head of a current European research project on the way the proliferation of TV channels is reshaping political identities in the European Union. Michael Langford, academic and novelist. Michael Langford was Professor
of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at the University of Newfoundland. He
now lives in Cambridge and teaches part-time in the Divinity Faculty, of
the University. He is also the author of the successful novel The de Vere
Papers.
Competing conceptions of freedom in a globalised age Speaker: Claire Fox, Director, Institute of Ideas. Claire Fox is well-known as a broadcaster and panelist on BBC Radio 4ís Moral Maze Chair and commentator: Brenda Almond, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Hull. European identity in a mediated world Speaker: Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics. Dr Georgiou teaches in the Department of Media and Communications and is a member of the European media project directed by Professor Slade. Chair and commentator: Victor Seidler, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. |
| Registration charge, including morning and afternoon tea and coffee, lunch and light evening reception is £39. Full payment is required by May 1st 2011, but places can be reserved by sending a deposit of £5 to the Honorary Secretary of the Society Alan Brown, 9 Olney Court, Oxford OX14LZ. Cheques should be made out to ëThe Philosophical Society of Englandí. Enquiries to the Chair of the Society, Michael Bavidge, 6 Craghall Dene Avenue, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1QR, or email: m.c.bavidge@newcastle.ac.uk |