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Dr Gëzim Alpion

Conference Papers & Invited Lectures 

  • ‘The tabloidization of the religious discourse’, Paper, Centuries of Celebrity: Re-Contextualizing the Meaning of Fame Conference, University of East London, UK, 27 June 2008.

  • ‘“Oh Father, where art Thou?” - Mother Teresa’s lifetime quest for an illusive God’, Lecture, Department of History, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 15 February 2008.  

  • ‘The saint without faith: Mother Teresa’s “double life”’, Lecture, Department of Politics, New York University, USA, 11 February 2008.

  • ‘Mother Teresa and “patriotism”’, Talk, Arbnori International Centre of Culture, Tirana, Albania, 16 July 2007.

  • ‘Challenges of teaching Media Studies in the age of globalization’, Paper, Fourteenth International Conference on Learning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28 June 2007.

  •  ‘Globalization and its implications for the curriculum in Media Studies’, Joint Paper with Professor John Holmwood (University of Birmingham) and Dr Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Keele), International Conference on Rethinking the News Media and Journalism Education in the 21st Century, Shanghai University, China, 9 December 2006. 

  • ‘When religion subdues nationalism - exploring Mother Teresa’s attitude towards Albania and the Balkans’, Paper, The 38th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies (AAASS), Washington D.C., USA, 18 November 2006.

  • ‘Dead journalists and stillborn readers - footnoting the Balkans in the British press’, Paper, CRESC Conference 2006 - Media Change and Social Theory, St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK, 8 September 2006 

  • ‘Famous people and national identities in the Balkans - the case of Mother Teresa’, Lecture, State University of Tetova, Macedonia, 10 April 2006.

  • ‘Midlands celebrities behaving badly - Enoch Powell, Robert Kilroy-Silk and the media debate on immigration’, Paper, The Ethnicity and Culture in the Global City Conference, University of Birmingham, UK, 25 July 2005.

  • ‘The influence of Mother Teresa’s Albanian roots on her ministry among the poor’, Lecture, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India, 1 July 2005. 

  • ‘Mother Teresa and the media - how Mother Teresa became a media icon’, Lecture, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India, 1 July 2005.

  • ‘Communication, media and social commitment - media coverage of May 2005 General Election in the United Kingdom’, Schola Brevis, The Parasmani Jesuit Centre, Shantiniketan, India, 30 June 2005.

  • ‘Bereavement and faith - Mother Teresa’s search for a father figure in the wake of her father’s death’, Talk, ‘Mother House’, The Headquarters of the Missionaries of Charities, Kolkata, India, 28 June 2005.

  • ‘Mother Teresa and her Albanian identity - swapping nationality for religion’, Lecture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, UK, 8 March 2005.

  • ‘Byron, Southern Europe and the Balkans - escape into the exotic’, Paper, The Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences (IARASS), The University of Birmingham, UK, 2 February 2005.

  • ‘The role of the Albanian media in enhancing the image of Albania in the West - failures and hopes’, Paper, Albanian Political Science Association (ALPSA) Conference on Political Science and Society: Challenges of Democratization, Development and European Integration, Tirana, Albania, 19 November 2004.

  • ‘Byron, media and celebrity culture’, Lecture, Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI), Birmingham, UK, 11 October 2004. 

  • ‘Brain down the drain - East European academics in Western Europe’, Talk, ‘Hope and Disappointment’ Seminar on Immigration, The Deutsch-Albanische Freundschaftsgesellschaft and the Auslandsgesellschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dortmund, Germany, 24 April 2004.

  • ‘European media and selective information - Mother Teresa’s forgotten years: 1910-1928’, Lecture, Kingston University, London, UK, 24 March 2004. 

  • ‘Mother Teresa and the Western media’, Lecture, University of Prishtina, Kosova, 30 October 2003.

  • ‘American literature and American identity’, Lecture, University of Prishtina, Kosova, 29 October 2003.

  • ‘The “other” in my research and creative writing’, Talk, Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham, UK, 28 November 2002.

  • ‘The outsider within’, Talk, The Festival of Contemporary European Plays (FestCEP 2002), Huddersfield University, UK, 17 March 2002.

  • ‘Images of Albania and Albanians in English literature - from Edith Durham to J. K. Rowling’, Paper, The Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences (IARASS), The University of Birmingham, UK, 12 February 2002.

  • ‘Baron Franz Nopcsa and his ambition for the Albanian throne’, Lecture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, UK, 9 January 2002.

  • ‘The Canon of Lekë Dukagjini - the quest for a half-forgotten mythology’, Lecture, Albanian Youth Action (AYA), London, UK, 4 December 2001.

  • ‘Landscape and exile in The White Peacock’, Paper, The Sixth International D. H. Lawrence Conference, University of Nottingham, UK, 15 July 1996.