Women and Media Conference
9th-10th March 2012
Canada Room, Main Lanyon Building
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.
