Conference News

17/02/12

With less than a month until the conference, preparations are heating up! We will be emailing all delegaates a conference schedule very soon.

15/02/12

The call for papers is now closed – you should have heard back from us with information on registration, travel and accommodation. Feel free to contact us with any queries.

01/02/12

We are delighted to confirm that Dr. Laurel Forster will be joining us as a keynote speaker at the conference.

20/01/12

We are delighted to confirm Professor Sue Thornham as a keynote speaker.  Sue is a valued academic in the field of women and the media.

16/01/12

With less than a month to go until the deadline for abstracts, conference preparations are heating up.  We are delighted to be able to welcome conference delegates in the spectacular Great Hall at Queen’s University Belfast, which has hosted many of Ireland’s greatest literary and political figures.

13/12/11

The Call for papers is now available here on the website!

Email your submission to womenandmedia2012@gmail.com by the 10th February 2012.

02/12/11

The date for the conference has been confirmed as 9-10 March 2012

Conference Theme

Women and Media Conference

9^th-10^th March 2012

Queen’s University Belfast

This two-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the multi-faceted
nature of women’s relationship with the media. Encompassing the press, art,
advertising and literature alongside a progressive shift towards more modern
forms such as social networking and blogging, this conference will look at the
media’s categorization and censorship of women through culture and the law,
issues of prostitution, abortion, illegitimacy, rape and asylums as well as
challenges to heteronormativity.

We seek to discuss the marginal experiences
of women and highlight the silences in the
news cycle, while acknowledging the ways in
which women have sought redress for this
silence, clawing back a female space in the
column inches.

We welcome (20 minute) papers that address,
but are not limited to, the following themes:

•Celebrity culture and the journalist’s cult of
personality
•Media treatment of rape and abortion
•Historical aspects of newspaper reporting
•Censorship, victimisation and exploitation
•Social networking and feminism in media
•Representations of female criminality
•Political control of the media
•Silence and absent voices
•Spectacle and hysteria

The call for papers has now closed, but anyone interested in attending the conference can now register by clicking the registration link at the top of this page.

About First Mondays Gender Research Forum

 

The International Research Forum on Women at Queen’s serves as a meeting place for researchers with an interest in the history of women and gender.

There is a seminar series which take place each semester in the McClay library.

For details, see: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/NewsandEvents/SeminarProgrammes/InternationalResearchForumonWomen/#d.en.158179

 

For further information, please email Professor Catherine Clinton at catherineclinton@.mac.com or c.clinton@qub.ac.uk