[Commlist] ECREA Gender, Sexuality and Communication pre-conference: programme and registration

ECREA online pre-conference 'From unruliness to collective action: 
challenging norms on gender and sexuality in the media'

Date: Friday 7th of October, 9-17.15 CET (Zoom)

The ECREA Gender, Sexuality and Communication Section is pleased to 
present the preliminary programme of our online pre-conference. On 
Friday, October 7 2022, we will have a full day of interesting 
discussions on different aspects of resistance, collective protest and 
subversion of norms on gender and sexuality from artistic, activist, 
academic and media perspectives.
Registration is free and open to non-members: 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/from-unruliness-to-collective-action-tickets-397067358157

For the full programme and more information, please visit: 
https://gcecrea.wixsite.com/gendercommunication/ecrea-pre-conference-2022
Preliminary program (short version)

9-9.15: Opening and welcome (by Sara De Vuyst)

9.15-10.30: Collective action and protests (chaired by Greta Gober)
. Adolfo Carratala (University of Valencia): Fighting for equality, 
fighting disinformation: the strategies of LGBTQ+ organizations against 
fake news about the community in Spain.
. Katarzyna Ciarcińska and Katarzyna Zawadzka (University of Szczecin): 
Making dissent heard and visible. Polish women's protests during the 
pandemics.
. Louiselle Vassallo (University of Malta): #occupyjustice - an 
all-women pressure group campaigning for truth and justice in the wake 
of the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia 
in Malta.

- short break-

10.45-12.00: Unruly bodies and sexualities (chaired by Sara De Vuyst)
. Martina Vitackova (Ghent University): "Oud word is nie vir sissies 
nie". Representations of older women's sexuality in popular romance 
literature in Afrikaans.
. Christina Goestl (artist, cccggg.net, clitoressa.net): Orgasm. On the 
flux and flow of a term through times and spaces.
. Katrien Jacobs (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Algorithmic Fat 
Bellies and Menopausal Rage.

- lunch break-

13.00-14:15: Fixing, diversifying and problematizing representations 
(chaired by Despina Chronaki)
. Brenda Murphy (University of Malta): FIXED-IT and PANELS NOT MANELS 
campaigns . Paula Rodríguez-Rivera (University of Vigo) and Pedro 
Ferreira (University of Porto): Exploring trans* identity trough 
videogames: A Normal Lost Phone.
. Manuel Bolz (University of Hamburg): Queering 'Rape and Revenge'. 
Revenge cultures and sexualized violence beyond heteronormative worldmaking.
. Taaka Irene (Friends UG): Friends UG In Ekigoma Flash Mob (Efm)

- short break-

14:30-15:30: Value of collective 'unruliness' for increasing newsrooms' 
discursive diversity? Panel discussion organized by Greta Gober, PI of 
the Norway grants-funded "Diversity Management as Innovation in 
Journalism" research project.

. Jenny Rönngren, Journalist and news editor at Syre. . Sagal Hussein 
Omar. Radio Journalist, writer, researcher, and producer (Walaalo 
Studio) . More participants TBA soon

- short break-

15:45-17:00: Challenging norms in academia: The potential of open access 
and alternative forms of publishing for improving diversity and equality 
- panel discussion organised by the ECREA Women's network moderated by 
Tonny Krijnen
. Anna Backman Rogers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Anna Misiak 
(Falmouth University, UK) - Editors of MAI Feminism and Visual Culture. 
. Chloe Turner (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) - Editorial member 
at the Feminist Review. . Rebekka Kiesewetter (Coventry University, UK) 
- Member of Jisc's Open Research Advisory Board.
. More participants TBA soon

17:00-17.15: closing remarks

Further information:
The event is organised by the ECREA Gender, Sexuality and Communication 
Section in collaboration with the ERC-funded Later-in-Life Intimacies 
project

Organizing committee: Sara De Vuyst (chair), Despina Chronaki 
(vice-chair), Greta Gober (vice-chair), Vittoria Bernardini (YECREA 
representative), Valentyna Shapovalova, Elisa Paz Pérez, and Aleka 
Stamatiadi (communication officers).
The ECREA Women's Network and the Norway grants-funded "Diversity 
Management as Innovation in Journalism" research project are supporting 
partners. For more info and questions, please email 
(genderandcommunication.ecrea /at/ gmail.com).


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