Open Seminar

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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