[ecrea] Call for papers: Conference on gender, war and conflict reporting

Call for papers
Conference on gender, war and conflict reporting
We hereby invite suggestions for paper submissions to a conference 
sponsored by the Norwegian UNESCO commission on gender relations in the 
area of conflict reporting. The conference will be held at the 
Department of journalism and media studies at Oslo and Akershus 
University College on the 6-7 October 2015. We also invite you to join 
us for a preconference on Global journalism on the 5-6  October. For 
more information see: www.hioa.no.
The idea behind the conference is to draw attention to gender relations 
in war, peace and conflict reporting. The conference is a follow up of 
the project “Journalism under Pressure: A mapping of editorial policies 
and practices for journalists covering conflicts”. This was a survey 
among more than 100 experienced journalists and editors in the field of 
war- and conflict reporting. The background for the project is the 
paradox that journalists in conflict areas never have had a better 
formal legal protection; and at the same time have never so many 
journalists been targeted and threatened doing their job as reporters. 
We need more knowledge of gender relation in the field of war and 
conflict reporting. To mention only three aspects: How may gender 
perspectives of peace journalism and conflict sensitive reporting add 
some important insights to journalist practices? Women reporters 
experience some degree of stress due to impacts of harassment and sexual 
harassment. There are also indications from recent research that we lack 
gender perspectives in general when it comes to seeing how wars and 
conflicts are reported.
The conference will start with a plenary with the following key note 
speakers, all top experts in the field of gender, media and conflict:
Professor Wendy Hesford, The Ohio State University, Professor Toby 
Miller, University of Cardiff and Professor Linda Steiner, University of 
 Maryland.
We encourage paper proposals on a wide range of topics including:
- In what way can the gender of the reporter make a difference in the 
daily reporting from war and conflict zones?
- Are there situations where gender of the reporter is important for 
which voices are heard or silenced?
-What cultural differences in societies are important for how 
respectively male and women reporters are being met?
- Are there situations where one gender can have an advantage compared 
to the other?
- How are masculinities and femininities represented in the media’s 
war/conflict reportages?
- What kinds of masculinity and femininity are brought to the forefront 
as icons of war heroes, villains and worthy victims in the media? How 
are these characters framed as gendered?
- To what extent are gender perspectives evident  in framing  of 
indigenous peoples in conflict reporting?
Abstracts of maximum 250 words should be sent to Professor Rune Ottosen 
or Professor Berit von der Lippe before June 1, 2015. There is limited 
participation and maximum 20 papers will be accepted. The best papers 
will be represented in an edited book after the conference. There is no 
registration fee and lunch is included. The participants are expected to 
cover their own costs for travel and accommodation. A limited number of 
scholarships on up to 900 Euros are available for Ph.D. students and 
researchers from low-income countries. Please indicate in the proposal 
if you apply for a 50 percent or full scholarship.
Paper submission and questions about the conference should be sent to 
(rune.ottosen /at/ hioa.no) or (berit.v.d.lippe /at/ bi.no).

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