[Commlist] CFP II International Conference on Media, Gender, and Sexualities: Representations, Literacy, and Audiences

CALL FOR PAPERS: II International Conference on Media, Gender, and 
Sexualities: Representations, Literacy, and Audiences

Date: June 8–12, 2025
Location: Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (Spain)
Submission deadline: January 31, 2025

We are delighted to announce the second edition of the International 
Conference on Media, Gender, and Sexualities: Representations, Literacy, 
and Audiences, which will take place at the Centro de Ciencias de 
Benasque Pedro Pascual (CCBPP) from June 8 to 12, 2025.
The first edition, held in June 2023, brought together scholars from 25 
countries across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, and its success was 
evident in the contributors’ enthusiasm, the depth of the discussions, 
and the wealth of scientific output, collaborations, and ideas it 
generated. This reaffirms the conference’s potential to become a key 
international platform for discussions on media, gender, and 
sexualities—topics that are increasingly relevant and vital to public 
discourse. The warm, collegial atmosphere of that inaugural event 
inspires us to strengthen the bonds it created while fostering new 
opportunities for dialogue and collaboration.

While the final program is still being developed, we are thrilled to 
announce the participation of two distinguished international scholars: 
Dr. Paul Julian Smith (Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA) and 
Dr. Susan Stryker (Professor at Stanford University, USA). We would be 
honored to have you join the program as well.

In line with the collaborative spirit of the conference, we are now 
accepting submissions in two categories:

 1. Scientific presentations, to be shared in dynamic discussion sessions.
 2. Workshops or creative activities, focused on practical applications
    or challenging established knowledge.

We are committed to creating a welcoming and refreshing conference 
environment—one that breaks away from the rigidity of traditional 
academic events and instead fosters genuine collaboration and exchange. 
The success of the previous edition proved that this vision is not only 
possible but achievable.

This year, we are focusing on the following topics:

  * Good and bad media representation practices from a gender and
    sexuality perspective
  * Screens, diversities and everyday life
  * Gender biases in the uses, perceptions, and benefits of media
  * Audiences, media representations, gender and sexualities
  * Collaborative cultures, user-generated content, transmedia, gender
    and sexualities
  * Risks and benefits of informal learning about sexualities and gender
    via the media
  * Youth, informal peer learning, media and sexualities
  * Digital intimacies: Experiencing sexualities through media
  * Desire and media in the digital age
  * Power and violence regarding gender and LGBTI+ in the digital age
  * Decoloniality, anti-racism, and gender and queer/LGBTIQ+ media studies
  * New media spaces to learn about sexualities and gender: social
    networks, dating apps, online communities, etc.
  * New actors in media environments and sexualities: YouTubers,
    Instagrammers, Tiktokers, etc.
  * Narrative mutations: new formats and genres, sexualities and learning
   * From the informal to the formal, from media to the classroom:
    difficulties and possibilities
  * Queer pedagogies and media
  * Intergenerational learning on sexualities and media
  * University, gender and education
  * Intersectionality and the media
  * LGBTQ+phobia and the media
  * Corporealities, fatphobia, aesthetic violence, and media
  * Disability/functional diversity, neurodivergence, sexualities, and
    gender in the media
  * Reduction of gender and sexual orientation prejudices through and
    with the media
  * Effects of the media’s portrayal of LGBTQ+ on various audiences
  * Methodological innovations in gender and queer/LGBTIQ+ media studies
  * Historical perspectives of gender and queer/LGBTIQ+ media studies
  * Cultural differences and/or comparative studies in the
    representation and consumption of LGBTQ+ content
  * Adultocracy in the representation of youth gender and sexual identity +
  * New LGBTQ+ stereotypes in the media.

You will find all the detailed information about this edition on the 
conference website, as well as links to submit your abstract, at: 
https://www.benasque.org/2025media/index_es.html 
<https://www.benasque.org/2025media/index_es.html>.

If you have any academic questions, feel free to contact us at: 
(congressmediagendersexuality /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(congressmediagendersexuality /at/ gmail.com)>.

For inquiries about registration, logistics, accommodation, or travel, 
please reach out to our colleagues at the CCBPP: (info /at/ benasque.org) 
<mailto:(info /at/ benasque.org)>.

The conference is made possible through the support of two projects:
1. Tales from Sex, Media and Youth: Experiences of Young People Learning 
about Sexualities through Media (SEXMEDIA; CNS2023-145333; Funded by 
MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union 
NextGenerationEU/PRTR) by the University of Barcelona.
2. Observatory for Sexualities, Youth, and Media: Identifying Needs and 
Providing Solutions for Youth and Education, Healthcare, and Media 
Professionals (KALEIDOSCOPE; PID2023-146858OB-I00; Funded by 
MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FEDER, EU) by the University of 
Barcelona.

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