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[ecrea] My Brilliant Career? Reminder and further details

Mon Sep 28 18:02:03 GMT 2009



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


Friday 30th October 2009, 10am-5.15pm at The Women's Library, London E1
7NT


There are a limited number of places left for The Women's Media Studies
Network one day event addressing the experiences, aspirations and concerns
of women working in higher education in media, cultural studies and the
humanities.

To reserve your place now (lunch included) download the registration form via
this link: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/images/events/wmsn/my_brilliant_career-
301009-registration_form.doc

Enquiries to organisers Anita Biressi ((a.biressi /at/ roehampton.ac.uk)) or Heather
Nunn ((h.nunn /at/ roehampton.ac.uk))


Speakers:

Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media Studies, University of Brighton
TOUGHEN UP PRINCESS:  academic men and women and changing the default
position

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 University
Where do I belong? Some reflections on feminism and my academic career.

Dr Nirmal Puwar, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Intersecting Space Invaders


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

Dr Kaity Mendes, Lecturer, De Montfort University


Summary:

This event 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, mid-career 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.

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