I spent the first week of July 2012 in Paris and at the 'Crossroads in Cultural Studies'-Conference of the ACS and presented my paper 'How do mediatized interpretations of `traumatic‘ events emerge in the periphery – The example of 9/11'.
While I called the paper 'The
Emergence of Cultural Traumata in Center and Periphery – The Example of 9/11'
in my abstract it felt like the final content of it was not fitting this
working title and I tried to focus on the depiction of the terrorism and how
journalists in Austria - the periphery region in my study - worked on the topic
of 9/11 during the last 10 years.
It was great to meet and talk with Irena Carpentier
Reifova, who I had a short, but nice talk with about the role of individuals
during the formation of remembered versions of the past. It was both good
feedback and validation of problems that are currently wandering around in my
mind.
Further it was great to see Seong bin Hwang again, who
I had met last year on the IAMCR in Istanbul.
I was very glad that we presented in
the same panel and had the chance to talk for a bit. His work on the medial
representations of the anti-atom movement post Fukujima was very
interesting.
Further great food for thought included the panel
'Media Studies and Communication Sciences - Intellectual Dialogues Transgressing
a Banal Conflict' where it once more became clear to me that I’m a sociologist
and will always stay one, even when my topics may be about media or history or
politics.
And the panel ‘Beyond the Sociology
of tastes: Power and Postlegitimacy’ led to me reflecting Bourdieu once more.
Definitly have the need to talk with several other researchers about this, but
I was indeed moved…
And here a few links regarding the conference and the paper:
Conference HP: Crossroads 2012
Original abstract can be found in: Crossroads in Cultural
Studies – Book of Abstracts (2012), p. 333
My presentation: Crossroads Presentation as PDF
(proceedings/paper available on demand)
