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Divides VII: Anthropologists and (Media) Practitioners in Conversation about the Arts and Public Action</b></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is a last-minute call for additional participants in a roundtable
on the theme of "</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the arts and public action</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">" -- and the media's and the academy's roles in that regard.
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">[Background: These "Professional Divides" roundtables for the past half-dozen years aim to bring together linguists, anthropologists, media professionals and activists from the local area to discuss language, discourse,
practice and social-justice effects and how the media supports or detracts from it. In past years, we have highlighted case studies (academics) and perspectives on coverage (media practitioners) on topics such as gender, politics, fake news, immigration, reporting
and representation, and incarceration. It is a guided discussion that allows a dynamic exchange of ideas.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The "arts and public action" theme in relation to media (broadly construed)
raises cross-disciplinary questions. Larger questions can look toward the role of the arts, how the media come into play, and the work that anthropologists can do across numerous analytical focal points (performance, representation, in situ interaction, social
economies and scale, story-telling, narrative framing, critique, expertise, etc.). What is "the arts" and how are they sustained is an overarching question, of course. The conversation can also pursue the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">coverage of spectacle
and its role in nation-identity-building. Or the official account of what could broadly be construed as an "arts event" (and what that might be) compared with online/social media commentary</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> about the same thing. Or</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> official
vs guerrilla</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> arts events and what gets produced in the course of a response. Or… [your choice].</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Current cases planned for this roundtable include: The Public Theater
in New York City -- "of, by and for all people" and how this is maintained; the media coverage of art, representation and The Great Famine and a concurrent surge in "famine walks" in Ireland, the US, and Canada; how a "shared perspective" develops across small
discrete communities in Devon (UK) in relation to a mobile arts vehicle that minimizes social exclusion through “making” and understanding the natural environment; and the Extinction Rebellion movement that actively links arts organizations with climate
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">activism and how that is communicated within and outside the group.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Roundtable participation can flexibly fulfill primary or secondary roles at the conference – let me know which.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Please<b> let me know ASAP</b> if you are interested/have questions/what you’d like to pursue. I must start the submission no later than 3pm EST Friday April 5 and complete it by 3pm EST Wednesday April 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Colleen</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">==============================================</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Colleen Cotter</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Reader in Media Linguistics | Dean for Education (HSS)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">School of Languages Linguistics and Film</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Queen Mary University of London </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mile End Road | L</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ndon E1 4NS | UK</span></span></p>
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