2003 Seminar:

“Mostly news and current affairs”

October 12th - 15th
Ross Priory, University of Strathclyde

Sunday 12th October
Arrive at Ross Priory

Monday 13th October
9.30 - 10.00 Welcome and Introductions
Martin Montgomery

10.00 - 10.50 Ulrike Meinhof, University of Southampton
"Malagasy music and live audiences in differentiated cultural contexts"

11.00 Coffee

11.30 - 12.10 Espen Ytreberg, University of Oslo
"Developing Goffman’s concept of scripting for media research"

12.10 - 12.50 Martin Montgomery, University of Strathclyde
"Scripted versus ex tempore talk: the case of Andrew Gilligan"

1.00 Lunch followed by a walk break (weather permitting)

3.30 Tea

4.00 - 4.40 Anne Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Chris Bulcaen, Universiteit Gent
"Dealing with the extreme: How participants in a TV news interview deal with political extremism"

4.40 - 5.20 Andrew Tolson, De Montfort University
"Escalating arguments in BBC's 'Question Time'"

7.00 Dinner

Tuesday 14th October
9.30 – 10.10 Andrew Hoskins, University of Swansea
"'Up Close and Personal: Talking Embeds'"

10.10 - 10.50 Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Witnessing or moral witnessing? The case of media coverage for Jenin 2001"

11.00 Coffee

11.30 - 12.10 Peter Lunt and Richard Fitzgerald, University College London
"Circles of relevance"

12.10 - 12.50 Paddy Scannell, University of Westminster
"Telling News in Tilling"

1.00 Lunch followed by a walk break (weather permitting)

3.30 Tea

4.00 - 4.40 Terry Threadgold, University of Cardiff
"Images of Dangerous Men and a Predilection for Numbers: Constructing the Media Discourse on Asylum"

4.40 - 5.20 Tamar Liebes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Anwar Sadat (1977); Osama bin Laden (2001): The transformation of media events"

5.20-6.00 Joy Sisley, University of Warwick
"Mediated News and Translation"

7.00 Dinner

Wednesday 15th October
Breakfast, followed by departure