Panels and Screenings

Postgraduate Network
Panel: Women – History/Representation/Technology

Venue: Ground floor room, MHAC Building
(room TBC)
Time/day: 2-3.15pm, Thursday 6 January

• Angela Smith (University of Sunderland)
  First Wave feminism and British widows of the First
  World War
• Vicky Ball ( Queen Margaret University
  College)
  Excess and Containment: The British female ensemble
  drama
• Helen Thornham (University of Ulster)
  Playing with Bodies: fantasy, gender and the videogame

Panel: Approaching Historical Media Audiences

• Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University)
  Man to Man: Masculinity and Meaning in the American ‘True
  Adventure’ Pulps of the 1950s and 1960s
• Milly Williamson (London Metropolitan University)
  Re-reading Dracula: Victorians and the vampire – what’s
  at stake?
• Mike Chopra-Gant (London Metropolitan University)
  B Movies vs. the Box Office: alternative economies of cinema-going

Panel: Women and the Written Word

• Christine Hardy (Nottingham Trent University)
  Leisure Reading: the relationship between the amount of
  women’s leisure reading and the value they and
  their ‘significant others’ place on that
  reading
• Joan Burks (University of the Arts, London)
  Women in Publishing: The relationship between images of
  work and the reality of publishing as an occupation for
  women
• Sarah Pedersen (The Robert Gordon University)
  Why do women blog? An investigation into the motivations
  of women journal bloggers

Panel: Alternative Media

• Natalie Fenton (Loughborough University)
  Mediated Solidarity
• Janet Jones and Royston Martin (University of
  Wales, Aberystwyth)
  Crypto-hierarchies: An Indymedia UK Case Study
• Chris Atton and Emma Wickenden (Napier University)
  Sourcing Routines and Representation in Alternative Journalism:
  A Case Study Approach

The following panels are sponsored by MeCCSA’s Women’s
Media Studies Network:

Panel: Regenerations – New Approaches in Feminist
Cultural Studies

• Jane Arthurs (University of the West of England)
  Sexual citizenship in the digital era
• Josie Dolan (University of the West of England)
  Calendar Girls: the feminist bypass
• Suzy Gordon (University of the West of England)
  Regenerating cine-psychoanalytic feminism

Panel: Showcasing Women – Screenings and discussion
on feminist media practice as pedagogy

• Anne Crilly (University of Ulster)
  From Mother Ireland to Limbo
• Karen Ross (Coventry University)
  On the road with the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition – Election
  2003

Screenings: Showcasing Women

• Charlotte Crofts (London South Bank University)
  Bluebell
• Inga Burrows (University of Glamorgan)
  Well I Never
• Michelle Citron (Northwestern University)
  Cocktails & Appetizers, Mixed Greens and As American
  As Apple Pie