Open Seminar
Goldsmiths
College Department of Media and Communications,
on behalf of MeCCSA Women’s Media
Studies Network,
invite all interested women academics and postgraduates to
an open seminar.
Advance registration required: This event is free.
Please email Natalie Fenton (n.fenton@gold.ac.uk)
for further details and to reserve a place.
Programme
- 1.30 – 2pm
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Registration/refreshments
- 2 – 3.30pm
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Session 1
- Sara Ahmed, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths
College
Doing Diversity work - Joanna Zylinska, Department of Media and Communications,
Goldsmiths College
The Secret of Life: Bio-ethics between
corporeal and corporate obligations - Joan Haran, Department of Sociology, Cardiff University
Hope, Abjection and Social Transformation : Feminist
Science Fiction as Technology for Change
- Sara Ahmed, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths
- 3.30 – 4pm
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Refreshments
- 4 – 5.30pm
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Session 2
- Sharon Lockyer, School of Media and Cultural Production,
De Montfort University
Only Joking: The Ethics and Consequences of fooling Around - Angela Mcrobbie, Department of Media and Communications,
Goldsmiths College
‘Baring all’ – Feminism, Neo-liberal Culture and ‘Bare
life’ - Ros Gill, Gender Institute, LSE
To Midriff: Advertising
and sexualisation in the 21st century
- Sharon Lockyer, School of Media and Cultural Production,
- 5.30pm
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