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ERN events in Germany
The following events by the Eurovision Research Network (ERN) will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany on the 12th, 13th and 14th of May 2011, to coincide with this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. 
* Thursday 12 May (9:30am – 2:00pm)
Annual ERN Symposium – ESC as TV
at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, University of Applied Sciences
This event is free and open to the public.
* Friday 13 May (11:30am – 1:00pm)
‘New’ Europe Panel Discussion
– Euroclub, Ratinger Straße 25
Panel discussion on Eurovision and the ‘New’ Europe with Ramaz Bluashvili (lead producer, Georgian Public Broadcasting); Caroline Downey Desmond (producer, Ireland); Szymon Stellmaszyk (journalist, Poland); Dr. Irving Wolther (academic, Germany); and Edmondo Anselmi (Head of Press, San Marino). Dr Karen Fricker, chair.
This event is free and open to the public.
* Saturday 14 May (9:00am – 12:30pm)
Feeling European: The Eurovision Song Contest and the European Public Sphere
ESC & the ‘New’ Europe (AHRC Workshop) at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, University of Applied Sciences
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact karen.fricker@rhul.ac.uk (karen NULL.fricker null@null rhul NULL.ac NULL.uk)
Please click on the respective links above for further details on each of these ERN activities.
CFP: ESC as TV Event
As a key element of the activities for the Eurovision Research Network (ERN) coinciding with the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, Macromedia University for Media and Communication (MHMK) and Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH) are hosting a symposium on Thursday 12 May at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, Germany.
This is an open call for presentations and papers for this symposium focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest as a Television Event.
Researchers working in any discipline are invited present their work on the Eurovision Song Contest, with special emphasis on aspects of the event that relate to television studies. Some of the questions we’re interested in addressing include, but are not limited to:
how has the Eurovision Song Contest developed as a television event since the 1950s? what television legacies does the Eurovision Song Contest feed from and/or into across Europe and beyond? how have other televised song contests been influenced by the Eurovision Song Contest and what impact do other televised music and talent shows have on it? what are the dimensions of the relationship between national broadcasters and the recorded music industry in an era when digital downloads have became a major format for music distribution? how significant is the use of televoting in growing the Eurovision Song Contest audience, particularly in relation to other television shows that use televoting? what does the future hold for the Eurovision Song Contest as television and the internet continue to move closer to each other as media? how do Eurovision Song Contest fans add value to the television event, particularly when pan-European telecommunication has been decentralized through the Internet?
The symposium will also include a special panel of invited guests from the German broadcasting industry to discuss various topical aspects of the Eurovision Song Contest. This part of the event will be in German; the rest of the symposium will be in English.
To participate in this symposium, please send a brief abstract (100-200 words) and a two-sentence bio note to Toni Sant (t NULL.sant null@null hull NULL.ac NULL.uk) and Irving Wolther (wolther null@null phonos NULL.de) by Monday 25 April 2011. You should also outline your technical needs for the presentation, if any.
Selected paper/presentations will be notified by 1 May 2011. A full schedule for the symposium will be published along with details of other ERN events in Düsseldorf on the Eurovision Research Network website one week before the event.
As with all other ERN activities, there will be no entry charge or registration fee for this symposium.
‘European Margins and Multiple Modernities’: Eurovision and the ‘New’ Europe inaugural workshop
Posted by Karen Fricker in Events on February 3, 2011
On 18-19 February, the Department of Drama and Theatre and the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research at Royal Holloway, University of London will host the inaugural workshop of the Eurovision and the ‘New’ Europe research network. This AHRC-funded network aims to advance critical thinking about the contemporary Eurovision Song Contest, focusing on the ways in which the Contest has reflected, and perhaps driven, changing perceptions and realities of Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. This inaugural session, ‘European Margins and Multiple Modernities’, explores the ways in which the increasing domination of the Contest by new-entrant nations has reinforced – or perhaps destabilised – binary understandings of Western and Eastern Europe.
Public events include:
Friday, 18th February, 10 am-12:30 pm, Boilerhouse Theatre
Keynote session:
‘European Identity and Multiple Modernities: Cosmopolitanism and Postcolonial Critique’ – Gurminder Bhambra (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick)
‘All in the Family: Performing the ‘New’ Europe at the Eurovision Song Contest’ – Katrin Sieg (Department of German, Georgetown University)
Respondent: Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway Department of Politics and International Relations)
No reservation is necessary.
Friday, 18th February, 5-7:30 pm, Windsor Building
Reception and panel discussion:
Representatives of national broadcasters, including the BBC and YLE/Finland, will speak about their nation’s current approach to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Those interested in attending this evening event, please RSVP to mariaeurovision2011@gmail.com (mariaeurovision2011 null@null gmail NULL.com).
For more information, please visit
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/research/eurovision (http://www2 NULL.warwick NULL.ac NULL.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/research/eurovision); or email karen.fricker@rhul.ac.uk (karen NULL.fricker null@null rhul NULL.ac NULL.uk) or m.gluhovic@warwick.ac.uk.