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SUMMARY:The Anthony D. Smith Lecture 2022: Sabina Mihelj on Platform Nations
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 Anthony D. Smith Lecture will be given by Professor Sabina Mihelj of Loughborough University on the subject of ‘Platform Nations’ at 1700CET on 4th April in Lecture Hall 1 in the Meerminne building on the City Campus of University of Antwerp at Sint-Jacobstraat 2\, 2000 Antwerpen. Attendance is free and open to all; the Lecture will also be streamed online at Facebook Live and YouTube Live. \nAbstract\nWhile much has been said about the role of digital media in the proliferation of nationalism\, and especially in the resurgence of exclusionary nationalist rhetoric and sentiments\, we know much less about the nature and existence of nations in the digital world. For instance\, how do nation-states engage in nation-building in the new communication environment? How has the growing impact of digital platforms affected the way cultural institutions engage with national audiences? How and where do ordinary platform users encounter and experience nations online? To address this gap\, I introduce the concept of ‘platform nations’\, understood as imagined communities whose continued existence depends\, in part\, on the support of digital platforms. I then focus on three key mechanisms that contribute to the formation and reproduction of platform nations: the politically and commercially motivated development of national platform ecologies; copyright legislation and nation branding strategies designed to protect and promote national cultures in the online domain; and the prevailing practices and preferences among platform users. I reflect on how these mechanisms differ from those at work in pre-digital communication environments\, highlighting the influence of platform affordances and business models. I conclude with a set of methodological considerations and suggestions for empirical approaches to researching platform nations. \nAbout Prof. Mihelj\n \nProfessor Sabina Mihelj joined Loughborough University in 2004\, having previously worked and studied in Slovenia\, Hungary and Germany. Over her time at Loughborough\, Sabina served as Programme Director for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in communication and media studies. She is currently Director of Research for Communication and Media\, and co-led Loughborough’s REF2021 submission to the D34 panel. She is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College\, and sits on the editorial boards of several international media and cultural analysis journals. \nSabina is particularly interested in the comparative study of media cultures across both traditional and new media\, with a focus on public culture\, nationalism\, identity\, and audiences. She has written extensively on the relationship between communication\, nations and nationalism\, Cold War media and culture\, and comparative media research. Her research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, the Economic and Social Research Council\, the British Academy\, the Leverhulme Trust\, the Norwegian Research Council\, and the Ministry of Science and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. \nSabina also has a track record of collaboration with non-academic stakeholders. Her research on Cold War television and everyday life has also served as a basis for several museum exhibitions in South-eastern Europe\, the UK and the US\, and a TV documentary for BBC 4. This work provided the basis for one of Loughborough’s REF Impact Case Studies\, Challenging Cold War Stereotypes. Her current work on the role of media in the rise of illiberalism in Eastern Europe\, conducted with Dr Václav Štětka\, involves collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union\, European Federation of Journalists\, and the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities. \nYou can find out more about Sabina at her profile on Loughborough University’s website or follow her on Twitter.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/the-anthony-d-smith-lecture-2022-sabina-mihelj-on-platform-nations/
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SUMMARY:Michael Skey on 'Ecstatic nationalism and the media: or why nations are not really imagined communities'
DESCRIPTION:The first plenary from the joint ASEN-NISE 2022 Conference on Nationalism and Media will be broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook. \nAbstract \nContra to Anderson’s seminal argument\, this paper argues that nations are not really imagined but lived\, embodied\, heard\, viewed\, represented\, materialised and felt communities. For the purposes of this session\, and to highlight the crucial role of the media in these processes\, I want to focus on the significance of ecstatic nationalism\, events designed to commemorate\, celebrate or mourn the nation. \nBuilding on Dayan & Katz’s (1992) seminal work on media events\, the paper outlines the main features of such ecstatic national events before offering a new framework for making sense of their impact\, which draws on insights from social psychology\, anthropology and media studies. In the latter case\, this includes the role of both legacy media and\, increasingly\, everyday users on digital platforms in representing both individual nations\, but also the international system\, as both natural and significant to their own lives. \nAlongside\, the everyday representation of nations\, it is argued that these events are crucial in not only mediating the nation as a more-or-less coherent entity that can be seen and heard and idealised but also in providing opportunities for collective engagement and effervescence. Put simply\, mediated representations of such events – which are difficult to escape even if you have no interest in them – offer first-hand evidence that\, for substantial numbers\, the nation still matters.  Moreover\, these processes may echo beyond the event itself into the wider routines of daily life allowing national symbols to become part of the comfortable furniture of everyday existence because their meaning and significance has been re-articulated during such periods. \nAbout Michael \nMichael jointed the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in June 2016. He was previously a lecturer in media and cultural studies at University of East Anglia and has also taught sociology at UEL and University of Leicester. He was awarded his PhD by the Department of Media & Communications at the London School of Economics in October 2008. His doctoral research was funded by the AHRC and a subsequent monograph based on this work was awarded the 2012 BSA/Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. \nMichael’s research interests are in the areas of; national belonging\, globalisation\, sociology of everyday life\, media events and rituals\, mediatization\, sport and discourse theory.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/michael-skey-on-ecstatic-nationalism-and-the-media-or-why-nations-are-not-really-imagined-communities/
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SUMMARY:Athena Leoussi on Art and national modernisation
DESCRIPTION:The second plenary from the joint ASEN-NISE 2022 Conference on Nationalism and Media will be broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook. \nAbstract \nThe paper discusses the contribution of European artists to the modern idea of the nation\, which transformed European societies into modern national states. It shows how artists engaged with the Enlightenment and Romanticism\, and their two distinct visions of a modern world of nations. It shows that both visions set out to revive past traditions – past golden ages: one\, the classical tradition of democratic Athens and Republican Rome\, the other rural\, communal and religious traditions. These revivals of the past became the touchstones of the national revolutions which transformed the relations between centre and periphery\, in search of political\, social\, cultural and human integration. Initially antagonistic\, the Enlightenment and Romanticism became a single vision – a single striving: the pursuit of both liberty and identity. Artists set out to articulate these visions as they collided and combined. In so doing\, they created not only icons of the modern world of nations\, but also modern forms of art. \nAbout Athena \nAthena’s research interests include\, the history\, theories and problems of nationalism and national identity; the comparative study of the peoples of Europe – their political and cultural histories and contacts; the representation of national identity in art; race\, anti-semitism and national identity in 19th-century Europe; and the role of the classical tradition in the making of modern national identities. Through her specific interest in the revival of the classical Greek body in modern Europe\, she contributed to the British Museum exhibition\, ‘Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art‘\, curated by Dr Ian Jenkins. \nAs Founder (1991) of the global\, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)\, which she chaired for many years\, a member of ASEN’s Advisory Council\, and a Founding Editor (1994) of the international journal\, Nations and Nationalism (Wiley-Blackwell)\, which Athena continues to edit with the other members of the editorial team\, she have been involved in the development of a variety of research projects\, seminars\, conferences and colloquia on nationalism and national identity. Her research has received funding from the Greek State\, the Hellenic Foundation\, and the Irving Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy\, USA. Athena have been an assessor for the British Academy monographs section\, and for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and has been Visiting Senior Fellow in the Government Department\, LSE (2008-12)\, and since 2012\, she hold an International Fellowship at the Panteion University (Athens\, Greece). She is currently director of European studies at the University of Reading.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/athena-leoussi-on-nationalism-and-media/
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SUMMARY:Gertjan Willems on 'Nationalism and Film: Towards a New Research Agenda'
DESCRIPTION:The final plenary from the joint ASEN-NISE 2022 Conference on Nationalism and Media will be broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook. \nAbstract \nThe majority of research on the relationship between nationalism and film has focused on the representation of nations\, nationalism and national identities in feature films. This leaves open a wide array of underexplored research possibilities\, of which some of the most pertinent ones will be addressed in this talk. Research on the history of nationalism and film in Flanders will serve as a stepping stone to explore new research avenues. I will discuss\, among other things\, the value of integrated analyses combining the dominant method of representation analysis with production and reception analysis; the importance of a broad conception of nationalism; the notion of multiplicity\, both in terms of attention for multiple co-existing national discourses and in terms of the relations between national\, subnational and transnational discourses; the relevance of the concept of national indifference for film studies; the potential of amateur films and home movies for a bottom-up approach to nationalism research. The aim of this talk is to formulate a new research agenda for future nationalism and film studies\, thereby also touching upon possible new directions for the field of nationalism and media studies at large. \nAbout Michael \nGertjan Willems is a film and media scholar. He is assistant professor at the University of Antwerp. He is affiliated to the Research Centre for Visual Poetics (dept. of Literature) and the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Centre (dept. of Communication Sciences). He is also a guest professor at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at Ghent University. He has been guest lecturer or visiting scholar at the Erasmus University Rotterdam\, Saint-Louis University Brussels\, the University of Amsterdam\, the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome\, the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas\, and the University of York. Since 2016\, he is chair of the Film Studies section of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association). \nHis research interests are aimed at a critical analysis of film and media. He has particular research expertise in media and nation-building\, Belgian film history\, film adaptations. He is the author of a Dutch-language monograph on the relation between film policy and nation-building in Flanders (2017) and editor of European Film Remakes (with Eduard Cuelenaere and Stijn Joye\, 2021) and a Dutch-language anthology on the history of media and nation-building in Flanders (with Bruno De Wever\, 2020). He published various articles in journals such as Nations and Nationalism\, Historical Journal of Film\, Radio and Television\, Journal of Belgian History and Journal of Popular Film and Television. You can find out more about Gertjan at his blog https://gertjanwillems.wordpress.com/
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/gertjan-willems-on-nationalism-and-film-towards-a-new-research-agenda/
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