Conference Announcement
CULTURAL CROSSROADS: OWNERSHIP, ACCESS, IDENTITY
24-26 November 1997
ANA Hotel, Sydney, Australia
The interface between the law and the production, dissemination and
reception of culture will be a primary focus of the forthcoming
Cultural Crossroads: Ownership, Access, Identity conference to be
held in Sydney from 24-26 November.
Organised by the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy in
partnership with the Copyright Agency Limited, the Communications Law
Centre, the Australian Broadcasting Authority and a number of other
cultural and media institutions, the conference will feature discussion
by speakers from around the world on issues including censorship,
classification, regulation, defamation, free speech, copyright and
intellectual property in a variety of different media and national
contexts. In addition several papers will debate the challenges posed
to writers and publishers by new media technologies. The many papers to
be delivered during the conference include:
- Alexandre Fedorov, Taganrog Pedagogical Institute, Russia, 'Intellectual
property rights and videopirates in Russia in the 90s'
- Yee Fen Lim, University of Sydney, 'The new media and the triangle of
copyright interests'
- Doreen Mellor, Flinders Art Museum, The Flinders University of South
Australia, 'Appropriation: Art for the faking'
- Philip (Fei) Wan, Chinese Academy of Social Science, 'Copyright
harmonisation in Hong Kong and the PRC: a comparative study of the
two regimes in one country'
- Roderick Best, Dept of Training and Education Co-ordination New South
Wales, 'The interface of education and copyright'
- Cassandra Pybus, Australian Humanities Review, 'Aurora Australia:
Writers and the World Wide Web'
- Anne Cheung, The University of Hong Kong, 'In the age of
art-appropriation: A case remade'
- Jonathan Levy, US Federal Communications Commission, 'Competition and
copyright: Retransmission of free-to-air television signals by Pay TV
services'
- Owen Morgan, University of Auckland, 'Performers' rights and public
interest issues'
- Ron Brent, National Film & Sound Archive, 'Depositing the future'
- Michael Fraser, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), 'Why strong copyright
law is in our national interest'
- Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, 'Media violence and
classification debates: from censorship to governmentality'
- Matthew Hall, Dunhill Madden Butler, 'Reno: Where are we going -- or
do we? A critical analysis of Australian laws regulating content
online, in light of the US Supreme Court decision American Civil
Liberties Union vs Reno'
- Cynthia B. Villegas, Philippines Movie & Television Review &
Classification Board (MTRCB), "Movie and Television Review and
Classification Board of the Philippines'
- Rebecca Huntley, Watch on Censorship, 'The Classification (Publications,
Films and Computer Games) Act (1995): Theory and Practice'
- Elizabeth Paton-Simpson, University of Auckland, 'Privacy and free
speech: unlikely allies?'
- Bridget Bainbridge, Multimedia Victoria, 'Pornography and the Internet:
Regulatory challenges'
Keynote addresses will be made by:
- Robert Lynch, President of Americans for the Arts
- Richard Collins, UK Institute for Public Policy Research
- Meaghan Morris, University of Technology, Sydney
- Donald McDonald, Chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Robyn Archer, Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts
- Margaret Seares, Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts
- Janet Holmes à Court, businesswoman
- Bob McMullan, Shadow Minister for the Arts
- Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, University of Leicester.
The conference program will also include panel discussions on a broad range
of topics including: * Intellectual Property Law Developments * the Future
of Public Service Broadcasting * Radio, Democracy and Development *
Relations between Creators and Communities in Community Arts Development
Projects * Australian Commercial Television Regulation * the Future for
Independent Publishing in Australia * Censorship and Classification *
Emergent Asia Pacific Cultural Imaginary * Australia's Indigenous Arts and
Crafts Industry * Cultural Funding: Refining the Australian Model.
Additional papers to be delivered include:
- The Electronic Home: Bill Gates' House * Cultural Policy versus Cultural
Chaos: Fact or Fantasy? * Diasporic Media * Arts Philanthropy * Independent
Publishing * Multimedia with a Customer Focus * Finding New Audiences:
Research and Audience Development * Cultures of Urban Development on the
Gold Coast * The Political Rationality of Public Service Broadcasting * The
Myth of Media Globalisation in the Asia-Pacific Region * Tabloid
Journalism: The Debate on Entertainment, Popular Culture and Journalism *
Indigenous Media Audiences * Producing International Guerilla Television *
The Death of the Cemetery * Talkback Radio: The Public Sphere of the 1990s?
- Ethnic Community Media: Processes of Identity Formation and Citizenship
in Contemporary Britain * Cultural aspects of the regulation of television
broadcasting in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong * Hypertext, self-publishing
and the changing role of academic writing * The new navigators: Pacific
Islanders in cyberspace * Blinding the Duck - Cultural censorship and the
internet *
The conference website
(http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/akccmp/crossroads_conf.html) contains the
names and abstracts of additional speakers, as well as panel outlines,
a draft program, and information about Sydney.
For further information please contact Karen Perkins phone +61 7 3875 5350,
fax +61 7 3875 5511, or email CMP[_at_]hum.gu.edu.au.
Ben Goldsmith
Research Assistant
Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy
Faculty of Humanities
Griffith University
Brisbane
Queensland 4111
Website: http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/akccmp/home.html
Tel: 61-7-3875 3508
Fax: 61-7-3875 5511
Received on Fri Oct 24 1997 - 05:05:05 GMT