[Commlist] cfp- Emergent femininities and masculinities in 21st century media and popular culture

"Emergent femininities and masculinities in 21st 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


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 21st 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)

Abstract submission (extended) 15 January 2022
Notification of decision: 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

Brenda R. Weber, Provost Professor and Jean C. Robinson Scholar, Dept of
Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington]


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