[ecrea] Wedding Spectacle symposium, Leicester, September 16th

The University of Leicester’s Media and Gender research group requests 
the pleasure of your company! - at the one-day symposium:

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*‘Something old, something new: the wedding spectacle across 
contemporary media cultures’*

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*Friday, September 16^th ,  8.45am - 6pm, with a wine reception to follow*

*Bankfield House, 132 New Walk, University of Leicester, LE1 7JA*

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*Keynote speakers: Brenda Weber (Indiana University Bloomington) and 
Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton)*

*Discussant: Diane Negra (University College Dublin)*

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*The event is hosted in association with CAMEo, the university's new 
research institute for Cultural and Media Economies*

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*Register here 
<http://shop.le.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=7&catid=744&prodid=4909>*

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At this symposium, a range of papers delivered by international and 
UK-based scholars will seek to explore how the increasing visibility of 
the wedding spectacle across media cultures can be understood in 
relation to broader shifts and transformations in the politics of 
gender, sexuality, class and race. Some of the questions that the 
symposium will seek to address are: How have the international but 
deeply uneven shifts in legislation around equal marriage resignified 
the gender politics of the wedding? How are the changing ways in which 
ceremonies are photographed and shared through social media networks 
remaking our understanding of the wedding as a public/private event? How 
are national, cultural and ethnic identities negotiated, intensified or 
reworked through the wedding spectacle? Does the increased visibility of 
the wedding-as-spectacle signal a renewed attachment to traditional 
heteronormativity and patriarchal practices? Or does the wedding 
spectacle open up new expressive possibilities for contesting and 
resisting gender norms?

Registration costs £25, which includes lunch, refreshments and a wine 
reception.

RSVP: (mediaweddings /at/ le.ac.uk) <mailto:(mediaweddings /at/ le.ac.uk)>

Best wishes,

Jilly

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