[Commlist] Call for Papers: Emergent femininities and masculinities in 21st century media and popular culture

Call for Papers

*Emergent femininities and masculinities in 21^st century media and 
popular culture*

A three-day Symposium

Department of Communication and Media Studies,

School of Economics and Political Science,

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

https://sites.google.com/view/efm2022conference/home 
<https://sites.google.com/view/efm2022conference/home>

*Dates: Thursday 15 September 2022- Saturday 17 September 2022*

*Location: *Department of Communication and Media Studies, NKUA, 1 
Sofokleous St., Athens.**

In the past few years, and in the aftermath of movements like #MeToo and 
#OscarsSoWhite and the proliferation of celebrity culture, the call for 
greater diversity (either in terms of body aesthetics, disability, 
racial representation or sexuality and intimacy), together with a turn 
to ‘character’ and ‘resilience’ building, has brought the notion that 
‘representation matters’ back to surface. Indeed, increasingly, 
diversity, character, resilience have become catchphrases that resonate 
across cultures and borders and serve not only as indicators of 
progress, but also as an aspirational frame for younger people.

Pointing at the possibility of reductive notions of the politics of 
representation, whereby the quantity of representation is automatically 
seen as a sign of progress- leading, for example, to queerbaiting or 
colourbaiting – here, we are interested in the ways in which femininity 
and masculinity are being constructed, dismantled or reinvented in the 
course of the 21^st century in everyday life and/or in the media and 
popular culture.

We welcome contributions from scholars and young researchers who are 
interested in issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, race, identity 
construction and culture from a variety of analytical perspectives 
addressing (though not exclusively) the following:

  * Body aesthetics, discipline and the construction of femininities and
    masculinities
  * Digital intimacy and teenage girlhoods and boyhoods
  * The construction of femininities and masculinities through social media
  * Femininities and masculinities within ‘cancel culture’
  * The rise of hate culture: toxic masculinity, misogyny, misogynoir,
    misandry, incel culture
  * ‘New’ (?) femininities and masculinities in television and popular
    culture (e.g. in the productions of Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy;
    Shonda Rhimes, etc)
  * Aging, masculinity and femininity in popular film
  * Influencer cultures and the promotion and marketing of genders
  * Masculinity and femininity in the representation and consumption of
    sports
  * The celebrification of motherhood and fatherhood
  * Femininities and masculinities within celebrity culture
  * Questions of intersections: race, ethnicity and gender

We invite 400-word abstracts outlining empirical, theoretical or 
policy-orientated papers that address these or related issues. Abstracts 
should be accompanied by a 100-word bio of the presenter(s) together 
with contact details, all sent to Prof. Liza Tsaliki at 
(Femandmasc.athens2022 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(Femandmasc.athens2022 /at/ gmail.com)>

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*_Abstract submission_*by 20 December 2021

*_Notification of decision_*: by 20 February 2022.

*_Registration fees:_*

For members of staff: 80 euros

For PhD students: 50 euros*__*

*_Confirmed keynote panel:_**__*

**

*Sarah Banet Weiser*, Professor of Communication, University of Southern 
California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and 
University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication

*Rosalind Gill*, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City, 
University of London

*Danielle R. Egan*, PhD, PsyaD, NCPsyA
Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality 
Studies and Department Chair, Psychoanalyst
Connecticut College

*Sean Redmond*, Professor of Screen and Design, Department, SCCA Arts & 
Education, Deakin University


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