MeCCSA: Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association

Sheffield Hallam University
Wednesday 14 September 2005, 1.30pm – 5.30pm

Rooms 1028/9, Level 10, The Owen Building, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK
(enter at Main Reception, level 5 and follow the signs to the event)

• City Campus map

This event commemorates the work of Tessa Perkins, who died last year. Tessa was subject leader of media studies at Sheffield Hallam University and on the executive of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA). The event covers aspects of research and policy that represent some of Tessa's wide variety of practical and theoretical interests.

Tessa was an active supporter of the Women's Media Studies Network of MeCCSA and the Network are organising this event in conjunction with Media and Communication Studies at Sheffield Hallam.

The event is free and all colleagues, women and men, are most warmly welcome.

Programme

1.00 - 1.30pm

Tea and coffee available in Room 1029

1.30pm

Event starts in Room 1028

1.30 - 3.15pm

Panel  discussion:

The veiling of diversity: media representation of Muslim women
Myra Macdonald, University of Stirling

Making sameness visible: homoeroticism and cloning in the cinema
Jackie Stacey, Lancaster University

Media Studies: Women graduates and employability
Sue Thornham, Sussex University

3.15 - 3.30pm

Tea and coffee

3.30 - 4.15pm

Keynote address:
Gender and Equality and the Novelty of the Northern Ireland Agreement
Beatrix Campbell, writer and broadcaster, Visiting Professor, Women's Studies, Newcastle University

4.15 - 5.00pm

Presentation:
Before (and after) she was a virgin: Remembering Doris Day anew
Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

5.00 - 5.30pm

Presentation discussion

If you have any queries about the event please email Margaret Montgomerie from the organising committee at mamontgo@aol.com.