October 7, 2022
Online pre-conference
Dear members and followers of the Gender, Sexuality and Communication section,
We are pleased to present the preliminary programme of our online pre-conference "From unruliness to collective action: challenging norms on gender and sexuality in the media". On Friday October 7 2022, we will have a full day of interesting discussions on different aspects of resistance, collective protest and subversion of norms on gender and sexuality from artistic, activist, academic and media perspectives. There will also be two roundtable discussions on news and diversity (organised by Greta Gober) and feminist open-access journals (organised by ECREA Women's Network, supporting partner of the event). We hope you are as excited as we are to meet each other and exchange ideas about gender, sexuality and media.
Registration is free and open to non-members. Feel free to share the link with others who might be interested: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/from-unruliness-to-collective-action-tickets-397067358157
Preliminary programme
9-9.15: Opening and welcome (Sara De Vuyst)
9.15-10.30: Collective action and protests (chaired by Greta Gober)
· Adolfo Carratala (University of Valencia): Fighting for equality, fighting disinformation: the strategies of LGBTQ+ organizations against fake news about the community in Spain.
· Katarzyna Ciarcińska and Katarzyna Zawadzka (University of Szczecin): Making dissent heard and visible. Polish women's protests during the pandemics.
· Louiselle Vassallo (University of Malta): #occupyjustice - an all-women pressure group campaigning for truth and justice in the wake of the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta.
10.30-10:45: short break
10.45-12.00: Unruly bodies and sexualities (chaired by Sara De Vuyst)
· Martina Vitackova (Ghent University): “Oud word is nie vir sissies nie“. Representations of older women’s sexuality in popular romance literature in Afrikaans.
· Christina Goestl (artist, cccggg.net, clitoressa.net): Orgasm. On the flux and flow of a term through times and spaces.
· Katrien Jacobs (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Algorithmic Fat Bellies and Menopausal Rage.
12.00-13.00: Lunch break
13.00-14:15: Fixing, diversifying and problematizing representations (chaired by Despina Chronaki)
· Brenda Murphy (University of Malta): FIXED-IT and PANELS NOT MANELS CAMPAIGNS APPLICANT Mediating Women: Balancing the Media - a foundation based in Malta, working to promote gender equality in and through the media.
· Paula Rodríguez-Rivera (University of Vigo) and Pedro Ferreira (University of Porto): Exploring trans* identity trough videogames: A Normal Lost Phone.
· Manuel Bolz (University of Hamburg): Queering 'Rape and Revenge'. Revenge cultures and sexualized violence beyond heteronormative worldmaking.
Taaka Irene (Friends UG): Friends UG In Ekigoma Flash Mob (Efm)
14:15-14:30: short break
14:30-15:30: Panel on news and diversity organized by Greta Gober
15:30-15:45: short break
15:45-17:00: Panel on feminist open access journals organized by the ECREA Women’s Network moderated by Tonny Krijnen
17:00-17.15: closing remarks
For more info/questions, please send an email to genderandcommunication.ecrea@gmail.com
We are looking forward to the event.
Kind regards,
The Organizing Committee
Sara De Vuyst (chair), Despina Chronaki (vice-chair), Greta Gober (vice-chair), Vittoria Bernardini (YECREA representative), Valentyna Shapovalova (communication officer), Elisa Paz Pérez (communication officer), and Aleka Stamatiadi (communication officer)
