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[ecrea] My Brilliant Career? Women in the Academy

Tue Jul 28 11:22:56 GMT 2009



My Brilliant Career? Women in the Academy: A Symposium and Networking Event


Date: Friday 30th October 2009, 10am-6pm

Venue: The Women's Library, London E1 7NT

Organisers: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn (WMSN/Roehampton University)


The Women's Media Studies Network supported by MeCCSA is pleased to
announce a one day event addressing the experiences, aspirations and
concerns of women working in higher education in media, cultural studies and
the humanities.

This invites scholars who situate their research within a feminist framework to consider the organisational and personal/social impediments to institutional and intellectual recognition into the 21st century. It will also consider the broader
implications of these barriers to female success in the academy in terms of
their impact on students' own aspirations and their own understanding of
gender roles in intellectual and public life. Speakers include younger, midcareer and senior academics and the event will allow space for participants to discuss
challenges and strategies for collaboration with women who have extended
experience of negotiating academic roles. Participants will be encouraged to
initiate further events on associated topics which might include the
opportunities and constraints for postgraduate
female academics; opportunities for scholars from different ethnic, cultural and
socioeconomic backgrounds and those on part-time and short-term contracts;
the media image of female intellectuals; the emotional labour of women
working in HE; the impact of recession on
women academics.

For further information and to register for this event (which includes lunch)
please download the registration form via this link:

http://www.meccsa.org.uk/images/events/wmsn/my_brilliant_career-301009-
registration_form.doc

Enquiries to Anita Biressi ((a.biressi /at/ roehampton.ac.uk))


Schedule in brief

Speakers

Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media Studies, University of Brighton
Paper title: tbc

Mary Evans, Professor and Visiting Fellow, Institute of Gender Studies LSE
A Brilliant Career : But is this Feminism? Reflections on Professional 'Success'

June Purvis, Professor of Women's and Gender History, Portsmouth
Where do I belong? Some reflections on feminism and my academic career.

Dr Nirmal Puwar, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths and author of Space Invaders:
race, gender
and bodies out of place (Berg 2004)
Paper title: tbc

Round table speakers

Helen Baehr, MeCCSA Executive Committee member, research consultant and
member of the Board of Women in Film and Television

Rosalind Brunt, Visiting Research Fellow in Media Studies, Sheffield Hallam
University ,founder member of WMSN

Becky Francis, Professor of Education, Roehampton University


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