International seminar on national identities and their television representation

The Complutense University of Madrid is organizing an international seminar on November 25 and 26 in which leading international experts will analyze the narrative of television fiction and the definition of identity criteria, as well as non-fiction discourses and the dialectics established in the representation of current events and collective reality.

The registration period to participate in the Seminar 'National identities and their television representation' will remain open until November 7, an international meeting that will take place in Madrid on November 26 and 27 organized by the Complutense University with the support of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Harry S. Truman Institute and the Community of Madrid.

Television has been defined as a window open to the world. Also as a “contemporary bard”, involved in cultural production and reproduction. Its role as a hegemonic means of communication has been decisive in the design and reflection of social, political and national identities throughout the second half of the 20th century. Today, television continues to constitute a first-order point of reference, appropriate to the context of a new media ecology.

This Seminar is conceived as an international meeting forum focused on the relationships between collective identities and the different modalities of television discourse. Its fundamental objective is to provide a meeting and exchange point in a specialized field of reflection at a high scientific level.

Its area of ​​interest is defined, therefore, by an interdisciplinary nature, in which multiple perspectives come together: Social Communication and Journalism, Contemporary History and History of the Present Time, Anthropology, Cultural Studies or Sociology of Communication.

From a thematic point of view, the activities are structured around two converging axes: the narrative of television fiction and the definition of identity criteria; and non-fiction discourses and dialectics established in the representation of current events and collective reality.

The professors of the Department of History of Social Communication of the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid, Carlota Coronado Ruiz, Isabel Martín Sánchez, Javier Mateos-Pérez and José Carlos Rueda Laffond, are part of the organizing committee of this Seminar.

The effects of miniseries and reality television, information on television during the Iraq war in 2003,
or the social panic after the attacks of 11-M and 11-S, will be some of the aspects that will be addressed in this seminar.

More information here.