CfP: Arts and Social Justice: The Media Connection, 20-23 October 2011, Cyprus

The Department of Communications in conjunction with the Mass Media and Communications Institute at the University of Nicosia will host the 2011 Arts and Social Justice Conference. The title of this year’s conference is Arts and Social Justice: The Media Connection. The ASJ is an established international conference based on arts, expression and citizen activism and its various mediated forms of representation. ASJ has ties to the World Social Forum, also held annually at the same time as the Davos Economic Forum and conceived as one of its counterweights. In 2010, the ASJ conference was held in Durban, South Africa, with luminaries as Albie Sachs and Rajmohan Ghandi among the plenary speakers and key presentations by William Cleveland, Mike van Graan, and Angelina Kamba.

200-300 delegates from all over the world are expected to attend the 2011 conference – artists, academics, activists. Special emphasis will be put on the media and how they can and do influence societies at large to take on greater responsibilities in making this world a just place to live. There will be three strands:

1. Arts, Media and Advocacy
2. Media, Culture and Identity
3. Arts, Cultural Diversity and Conflict Resolution

A dedicated website will be up within the next few weeks with the latest information and updates.

Fot more information contact Dr Mike Hajimichael (hajimichael.m@unic.ac.cy) or Dr Holger Briel (briel.h@unic.ac.cy).