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Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment
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Symposium on "Impressions of Goa: Mainstream, Margins and Media" at GU
Goa Union of journalists and Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion
and Inclusive Policy, Goa University are jointly organizing a Symposium
on “Impressions of Goa: Mainstream, Margins and Media” on Wednesday, 31
March, 2010. The distinguished speakers of the symposium include Shambhu
Bhau Bandekar, writer and former deputy speaker, Goa Assembly; Dadu
Mandrekar, writer, dalit activist and editor, Prajasttak; Prakash Kamat,
special correspondent, the Hindu and president, GUJ; and Frederick
Noronha, Independent journalist, writer and co-founder, Bytes for All.
The session will be chaired by Prof. AV Afonso, coordinator, CSSEIP and
dean, faculty of social sciences, GU. The event will take place at the
University Conference Hall, Administrative Building, Goa University from
3 to 5 p.m.
The one of the objectives of the symposium is to provide an interface
between media, academics and civil society on questions related to
social exclusion, democracy and media. This is also an attempt to
analyse media discourse and its relation to social processes in Goa.
Media with its many versions has become the main site for the production
of images, impressions and information of our time. In a democracy,
media also becomes an active site of contestation and negotiations
between different social, political and economic interests, between the
mainstream of the society and the voices from the margins. Media, as an
institution of mediation, mirrors social and political reality and at
the same time can filter, screen and manage images and reality.
The symposium will address the questions such as these: How mainstream
and margins can be characterized in the context of Goa? What are the
dominant images and stereotypes related to Goa? What are the main
cultural frames of imaging Goa including tourism, development, history,
otherness and nostalgia? How do media receive, endorse, amend and
challenge mainstream images and impressions? What are the alternative
channels of articulation of marginal voices and what is their
relationship with mainstream in Goa?
Ishwar Singh, Prakash Kamat,
Lecturer-cum-Assistant Director, President,
CSSEIP, Goa University, Goa. Goa Union of Journalists, Goa
