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Call for nominations for 2009-2010 Postgraduate Network Executive Committee
The MeCCSA Postgraduate Network (PGN) is calling for nominations for its Executive Committee for the 2009-2010 academic year. Elections will be held at the upcoming annual conference in Bangor on 8-9 July 2009. The following positions are open: Chair: responsible for the day-to-day running of the Network, chairing all executive meetings and representing the Network …Continue Reading
Response to AHRC Future Directions consultation
Response to AHRC consultation Future Directions May 2009
Queer Screen Cultures
“Queer Screen Cultures” was an interdisciplinary postgraduate study day held at the University of Nottingham on May 5th 2009 in association with the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. It was devised with the aim of bringing together researchers from across the UK who deal with issues of queer visibility and representation, and so making links across the …Continue Reading
RCUK Research for our Future
Report by Christine Geraghty Chairperson, MeCCSA On behalf of MeCCSA, I attended an event in London in April 2009 at which the seven research councils shared their vision of ‘Research for our Future’. This initiative is clearly driven by the need, in this period of financial crisis, to argue as strongly as possible for the …Continue Reading
Jason Lee new Chair of the Pratice Section
The MeCCSA Executive Committee is pleased to inform that Jason Lee, University of Derby, has been elected Chair of the Practice Section and thus takes over from Charlotte Crofts. Jason has 20 years experience in higher education and the media and communications industries. He is Head of Film, Media & Creative Writing at the University …Continue Reading
Call for Papers for MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference 2009
The MeCCSA Postgraduate Network invites submission of abstracts for its Annual Postgraduate Conference to be held on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th July 2009 at Bangor University , Wales. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers on topics relevant to any area of media, communication, and cultural studies. The conference is organised by postgraduate students and it …Continue Reading
The terrible girls: feminism and popular culture
This panel had been convened on the occasion of the publication of Diane Negra’s book What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism and as a continuation of the debates raised in the successful conference ‘The Point of Feminism’ which took place at Reading in September. We are pleased that Professor Negra …Continue Reading
The Shadow of Thatcher: Women, Feminism, Politics and Culture 30 Years On
Key Speakers: Charlotte Brunsdon Heather Nunn Jackie Stacey Beverley Skeggs The first British woman Prime Minister. A resolute anti-feminist. Political icon. Scourge of the left. What is the legacy for feminists and cultural scholars of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership? 30 years after Margaret Thatcher’s election as Conservative Prime Minister in 1979, a number of films and …Continue Reading
Executive Committee
Chair Shelley Thompson Bournemouth University shelleyt@bournemouth.ac.uk Secretary/Vice Chair Markee Rambo-Hood Glasgow University Rambodiscordance@gmail.com Communications Matthew Holtmeier University of St Andrews mh633@st-andrews.ac.uk Journal Editor Vincent Gaine University of East Anglia gainezone@googlemail.com Outreach Victoria Kearley University of Southampton vlk204@soton.ac.uk Training Florian Zollmann University of Lincoln fzollmann@lincoln.ac.uk MeCCSA Representative Prof Mark Jancovich University of East …Continue Reading