"The LCC Conference mandate is to bring together scholars from all disciplines and fields of the humanities and social sciences with contributions on language, communication, social and cultural themes that analyse the contemporary world, its vectors of crisis, its tensions and conflicts, its lines of development, and its resources of hope." The Conference will be structured round three topics: 1) Media, media-making and the politics of news production; 2) Visual culture and hegemonic cultural policies and practices; 3) Cultural studies and the production of knowledge and social change.