Conferences

Next Conference

Investors and Entrepreneurship in Arab Media

Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster in collaboration with the New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen and the CAMRI Media Management Group 

Date: 15 April, 2011

Venue: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MARWAN KRAIDY

Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Author, Reality Television and Arab Politics (2009), Co-Author, Arab Television Industries (2009)

This event will showcase world class scholarship on media owners, management practices and shifting business models in Arab media industries. Arab, European and US researchers will debate topics including: 

• Media elites in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and elsewhere
• Strategic planning at MBC, Rotana and LBC
• Ownership concentration and its impact
• Future models of the ‘media city’
• Emerging regulatory pressures

The conference will attract scholars, media practitioners, management experts, production houses and policy advisors interested in how Arab media investors are responding to changing circumstances in their industries and the region at a time of political turmoil and financial upheaval.

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Previous Annual Conferences

Children’s TV in the Arab World, Cavendish Campus, June 4, 2010.

Arab and African Media Audiences: Shared Agendas for Research, Cavendish Campus, March 30-31, 2009. Organised jointly with the CAMRI African Media Centre and the CAMRI Audiences Group.

Journalism Testing Legal Boundaries: Media Laws and the Reporting of Arab News, Cavendish Campus,   June 20, 2008.  2nd Arab Media Centre knowledge transfer event supported by Round 3 of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF3) and the Open Society Foundation. The conference proceedings were published on CD.

Media Studies and Cultural Studies in Arab Higher Education:  Mapping the Field, Cavendish Campus, September 4-5, 2007. Ist Arab Media Centre knowledge transfer event supported by Round 3 of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF3).

Researching Arab Media, Culture and Society: Confronting Methodological Challenges, Cavendish Campus,   December 9, 2006

Towards an Arab Public Sphere? The Impact of New Media Technologies on Public Life in the Arab World  A series of six international one-day seminars supported by the Research Seminars programme of the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Taking place between December 2003 and June 2005, the seminar series attracted more than 30 speakers in addition to an audience of some 35 specialists. It resulted in publication of an edited collection entitled Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life (I B Tauris, London: 2007). The six seminars were as follows:

  • New Arab Media: Is the Public Sphere Concept Applicable?, Marylebone Campus, December 5, 2003
  • Arab Satellite Channels: Ownership and Control, Harrow Campus, March 19, 2004
  • Analysing Content, Regent Street Campus, June 18, 2004
  • Arab Audiences: What do we know about them?, Marylebone Campus, December 10, 2004
  • Interplay of Influence between "New" and "Old" Arab Media, Regent Street Campus, March 12, 2005
  • ‘Arab Public Sphere': A Convenient Illusion?, Regent Street Campus, June 11, 2005

The Arab Media Centre hosts three to four guest lectures in central London during the academic year.  Check this page for the new programme of lectures for the 2010/2011 academic year which will begin in October. All lectures listed below took place in the Regent Street Campus, unless otherwise stated.