MeCCSA - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association

Women’s Media Studies Network

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Open Seminar

Goldsmiths College, Small Hall/Cinema, Main Building
April 19 2005, 1.30pm – 5.30pm

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

Registration/refreshments

2 – 3.30pm

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
3.30 – 4pm

Refreshments

4 – 5.30pm

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
5.30pm

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