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MONDAY, July 13 MONDAY, July 13
Gender and Communication
- GEC
Chair: Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh (Butler
University, USA)
Chair: Kaitlynn Mendes (University of Leicester, UK)
Name of Person Submitting this information:
Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Session 17: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: GEC-M1a
Time: 09:00-10:30
Room: DS-R520
Title: Representations of Beauty
Chair: Jen-Yi Chen (Fooyin University)
Presentations:
Rachmah Ida (Airlangga University): Representations
of Muslim Women’s Beauty in Indonesian Islam
Women’s Magazines
Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani (Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale): An African American Beauty
Standard: South African Bridal Magazines Sell a White
Feminine Identity – Imitations Abound
Ji Yoon Ryu (University of Colorado Boulder): Beauty
as Life, Gender Norm and Capital: The Biopolitics of
Makeover Shows
Mariam Esseghaier (Concordia University):
Interviewing Muslim Women While Also Being One
Session 18: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: GEC-M1b
Time: 09:00-10:30
Room: DS-R525
Title: Politics of Newsproduction
Chair: Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh (Butler University)
Presentations:
Rita Basilio de Simoes & Maria Joao Silveirinha
(University of Coimbra): Voices of Experience:
Interactions of Societal Forces with Gendered
Professional Practices and Experiences
Claudia Ivette Pedraza Bucio (Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico): Jugando Como Visitantes:
La Experiencia de las Reporteras de Deportes en
Los Diarios Mexicanos Desde la Perspectiva de las
Gendered Newsroom Cultures
Nithila Kanagasabai (Tata Institute of Social Sciences):
Embodied Practices: The Gendered Body in the
Neoliberal Newsroom
Sara De Vuyst & Karin Raeymaeckers (University
of Ghent): Digital Gender Gaps in Newsrooms: A
Longitudinal Study on the Gender Dimensions of
Recent Technological Innovations in Journalism
Session 19: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: GEC-M2a
Time: 14:00-15:30
Room: DS-R520
Title: Feminist Social Media and Artist Responses to
Violence against Women
Chair: Yasmin Jiwani (Concordia University)
Presentations:
Carrie Rentschler (McGill University): Hashtag Hijacks
and the Feminist Social Media Response to Rape
Culture
Brenda Longfellow (York University): Hashtag
BeenRapedNeverReported: Twitter as a Feminist
Agora
Julianne Pidduck (Université de Montréal): First
Nations and Inuit Women: Mediating Subjugated
Knowledges of Violence
Krista Lynes (Concordia University): Intimacy and
the Index: Object Relations in Transnational Feminist
Media
Session 20: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: GEC-M2b
Time: 14:00-15:30
Room: DS-R525
Title: Interrogating Film
Chair: Ana Celina Puebla (Universidad Nacional de
San Juan)
Presentations:
Elizabeth Prommer & Skadi Loist (University of
Rostock): Underrepresented but of High Quality:
German Feature Films by Female Directors
Shaikhah Alghaith (Colorado State University): The
Representations of Women in Bollywood Films
Theresa Cronin (Middlesex University): Film as Rape
Culture: The Ethics of Aversion in Sr’an Spasojevi’s A
Serbian Film (2010)
Rosemary Chikafa (University of Zimbabwe):
Hegemony or Resistance: An African(a) Womanist
Reading of Sembene’s Moolade
Session 21: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: GEC-M3a
Time: 16:00-17:30
Room: DS-R520
Title: Responses to Violence Against Women
Chair: May Farah (American University of Beirut)
Presentations:
Irene Dorothy Awino (University of Oregon):
#MyDressMyChoice versus #NudityisNotMyChoice:
Resistance, Counterresistance in Kenya’s ‘Miniskirt
Debate’
Ana Cristina Velez (Universidad Eafit): Mujeres
Hablando de Mujeres, que Podo Dicen!: Analisis de
Columnas de Opinion Colombianas.
Nancy E. Worthington (Quinnipiac University):
Microblogging and Beyond: Tracking the Trail of
Twitter’s #YesAllWomen
Session 22: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: GEC-M3b
Time: 16:00-17:30
Room: DS-R525
Title: Media and Sexualities
Chair: Mehita Iqani (University of the Witwatersrand)
Presentations:
Ana Celina Puebla (Universidad Nacional de San
Juan): Procesos de Significacion de Practicas
Sociales y Configuracion Cultural en Relacion con
Lecturas, Escrituras y Biografias Trans
Bernadette Barker-Plummer (University of San
Francisco): The Ultimate Makeover: US Media,
Celebrity, and the Commodification of Transwomen
Markus Schafer & Richard Lemke (Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz): The Role of Gender: A
Quantitative Analysis of German Press Reporting on
Homosexuality in Sports
Maria T. Soto-Sanfiel & Adriana Ibiti (Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona): Engaging with Narratives
about Lesbians
Tianyang Zhou (University of Sussex): LGBT Rights
Movement and the Social Media Effect: A Case Study
of Taiwan Pride
History - HIS
Co-Chair: Dr Chandrika Kaul (University of St
Andrews, Scotland, Programme Chair for Montreal)
Co-Chair: Prof E. Lauk (University of Jyvaskyla,
Finland)
Name of Person Submitting this information: Dr
Chandrika Kaul (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Session 23: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: HIS-M1a
Time: 09:00-10:30
Room: DS-2518
Title: Radio Broadcasting: Historical Perspectives
Chair: Professor Carlos Barrera (University of Navarra)
Presentations:
Qi Wang (Shanghai University): Bringing America
to China: American Broadcasting in Shanghai
1923-1941. Nelson Ribeirio (Catholic University
of Portugal): Radio Club of Mozambique and the
dissemination of Portuguese colonialism
R. Teer-Tomaselli (University of KwaZulu-Natal):
Radio in Transition: The South African Broadcasting
Corporation, 1948-60.
Susan Haas (University of Pennslyvania): Negotiating
Hegemony and Resistance via Journalism Practice in
Radio Free Europe’s Central Newsroom
Session 24: Monday, July 13, 2015
Slot Code: HIS-M2a
Time: 14:00-15:30
Room: DS-2518
Title: Media History: American Perspectives
Chair: Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra)
Presentations: Gideon Kouts (Université Paris
8): The Ferrymen of Culture: the Transfer of the
Jewish Press Centers from Europe to America in the
Second half of the 19th Century. Christopher Francis
White (Sam Houston State University): Fanning the
Flames and Taking the Reigns of the First Fan Base:
Promotional Strategies in 19th Century American
Theatre. Michael Fuhlhage (Wayne State University):
Framing and Flows of News in the Struggle to Abolish
Slavery in Antebellum Kansas. Kevin G Barnhurst
(University of Leeds): American Realism as Hegemony
and Resistance in the History of U.S. News Events
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