[ecrea] Media, Gender and Sexuality in Europe / ica preconference

SUBJECT: ICA PRECONFERENCE ‘MEDIA, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EUROPE’

Dear colleagues,

We still have some places left for non-presenting attendees at our ICA18 
preconference 'Media, Gender and Sexuality in Europe'! Check out our 
amazing line-up below (also available at: https://goo.gl/YGLVyY) and let 
us know if you'd like to join us (please, e-mail Lukasz Szulc at 
(l.szulc /at/ lse.ac.uk) <mailto:(l.szulc /at/ lse.ac.uk)> for registration link).

All the best,

Lukasz Szulc

International Communication Association

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Interest Group

MEDIA, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EUROPE

24 May 2018, 8:30 - 17:00

Cafe Kampus, Naprstkova 272/10

Prague, Czech Republic

Media are gendered and sexualized while gender and sexuality are heavily 
mediated. Gender and sexuality figure prominently in many aspects of 
media production, representation, consumption and use. At this 
preconference, we will build on a vast body of research in this area to 
examine the intersections between media, gender and sexuality as well as 
age, ability, class, religion, race, ethnicity and nationality. Inspired 
by the fact that the International Communication Association will for 
the first time in history hold its annual conference in Central Europe, 
we would like to think about those intersections from a European 
perspective, particularly from the perspective of underrepresented 
contexts such as Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. How do European 
contexts matter for the intersections of media, gender and sexuality? 
How are those intersections manifested in Europe at different historical 
moments and at different geographical scales (such as cities, countries 
and regions)? What can we learn about those intersections thinking 
through Europe-specific issues such as larger geopolitical challenges 
(e.g. Brexit, austerity measures, ‘refugee crisis’, postcommunist 
transitions and the rise of the far right) as well as challenges 
specifically related to gender and sexuality (e.g. homonationalism in 
Western Europe, ‘gay propaganda’ laws in Russia and Lithuania, and 
anti-gender campaigns across the continent)? Also, more theoretically, 
what can such Europe-specific research contribute to mainstream, largely 
Anglo-American, studies of media, gender and sexuality? What are the 
legacies and the futures of European gender, feminist, sexuality and 
LGBTQ media studies?

Cost for participation is 25USD for early registration (by 30 April 
2018) and 35USD for late registration (by 4 May 2018). Please, e-mail 
Lukasz Szulc for the registration link ((l.szulc /at/ lse.ac.uk)).

ORGANIZERS

Lukasz Szulc (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)

Alexander Dhoest (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Lynn Comella (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US)

SPONSOR

The preconference is generously sponsored by the Department of 
Communication Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

PROGRAM

8:30-9:00              Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:05              Welcome

9:05-10:30           1. WOMEN AND QUEERS IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA: 
DISCOURSES, PRACTICES AND FRAMES

Who Gives Whom a Voice? Gender-Related Interactions in 35 Years of 
Political TV-Talks

Andreas Riedl, Sophia Dollsack

Gender Images in the Run-Up to Elections: Unusual Findings from Switzerland

Stephanie Fiechtner, Philomen Schoenhagen, Manuel Puppis, Tobias Rohrbach

Newsroom Diversity as Blessing and Curse: A Case Study on Harassed 
Female Journalists in German-Speaking Countries

Nina Springer, Franziska Troger

Scene In and Outside the Library: The Role of the Media in Public 
Discourse on the Gender Order and Heterosexuality in Czech Republic and 
Beyond

Blanka Nyklová, Nina Fárová

Media Frames and News Sources in Coverage of LGBT Prides in Russia

Kseniia Semykina

10:30-10:45         Coffee Break

10:45-12:00         2. GEOPOLITICS AND MEDIATED GEOGRAPHIES OF GENDER 
AND SEXUALITY

‘It’s Impossible Even to Imagine that Something Like This Happened in 
Poland’: LGBT Rights and the West/East Divide in the Polish Mainstream 
Media of the 1990s

Ludmiła Janion

Desiring the West: Late 90s through the Czech Gay Porn

Tereza Zvolská

Fantasized, yet Depoliticized: Visions of Gay Italy in ‘Call Me By Your 
Name’

Tyler Quick

The Gender Dimension of the Refugee Debate: The Narration of European 
Progressiveness vs. Refugees’ Backwardness in Austrian Press Coverage

Irmgard Wetzstein

12:00-13:00         Lunch Break (provided at Café Kampus)

13:00-14:30         3. QUEER MEDIA PRODUCTION: FROM ACTIVISTS TO 
CORPORATIONS TO YOUTUBERS

Temporality and Queer Bodies in Gay Magazines in the 1980s and 1990s in 
Germany, Italy and Poland

Tim Veith

Media Production by Slovak LGBTQ Activists: Carving out Spaces of 
Identity Expression, Belonging and Social Movement Mobilization

Viera Lorencová

When Pussies Riot: How YouTube Globally Reproduces Pussy Riot’s 
Anti-Putin Feminism

Jessica Gokhberg

Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo?: Locating Corporate Agency in LGBTQ Media Studies

Nicholas Boston

Is YouTube Anti-LGBTQ? Investigating LGBTQ YouTubers Articulated 
Understanding of the YouTube’s Algorithms

Sophie Bishop

14:30-14:40         Coffee Break

14:40-15:55         4. LOVE, SEX AND DRAG IN MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS AND 
FANDOM

Sexual Double Standards on Youth Victimization and Social Media: An 
Analysis of Discourses in Print Media

Burcu Korkmazer, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel

Teen, Love and Sexuality Stereotypes in Spain: Heteronormative and 
Patriarchal Models

Maddalena Fedele, Maria-Jose Masanet, Rafael Ventura

Where Girls are Still Encouraged to Say Yes if They Mean No: Gender in 
Popular German

YouTube Videos

Merja Mahrt, Annekatrin Bock

Spanish Fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race

Vincent Doyle

15:55-16:05         Coffee Break

16:05-17:00         5. NATIONAL IDENTITIES, GENDER & SEXUALITY IN FILM

Black Palate of Krystyna Janda and Black Umbrellas

Liliana Bajger

Queering Polish People's Republic through Affective Memory

Rafal Morusiewicz

Murderers of the Patriarchy: Reframing the (Queer) Nation in Romas 
Zabarauskas’ ‘Porno Melodrama’ (2011) and ‘Nuo Lietuvos Nepabėgsi’ (You 
Can’t Escape Lithuania, 2016)

Clinton Glenn


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