10.45 Tea and coffee break in the Atrium. 11.00 Panel 2 Panel 2a Screening Chair: Ruth Sanz Sabido Room 2.06 Flirting with danger: power and choice in heterosexual relationships (52 mins) Followed by a discussion with Lynn Philips, the social and developmental psychologist featured in the film Panel 2b Gendering the recession (i) Chair: Diane Negra Room 2.07 Kirsten Pike (Northwestern, Qatar): A Dolla Makes Me Holla”: Gender and the Recession on Redneck Reality TV Michelle Rodino-Colocino (Penn From the “Great to Androgel: A Feminist Response to Post-Recessionary Panic about “The End of Men” Pamela Thoma (Washington State): Finding a Job in HBO’s Girls: Self-Work, Immaterial Labor, and a Recession-era Update for the Postfeminist Professional Writer Panel 2c Online Bodies Chair: TBC Room 1.48 Dara Persis Murray (Rutgers): The Self-Branding of "Anas:" Feminist and Body Politics in Digital Culture Alexandra Sastre (Pennsylvania): Where is the “Body Revolution”?: Performing the Body Positive Movement Online Joanne Garde-Hansen (Warwick): Networked Intimacy: How emotion-agents are young women’s bodies online Panel 2d Online Sexuality Chair: Clarissa Smith Room 1.49 Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallin): Online flashers? Arousal or offence upon receiving from the audience in an online self-shooter’s community Hollis Griffin (Denison): What R U Looking 4?: Gay Mobile Media Apps and Genres of Online Sociality Barbara Mitra and Karen Johnson (Worcester): Perceptions of Gender in Second Life 12.30 Lunch, Atrium.
13.30 Panel 3 Panel 3a: Gender and Contemporary Television Horror Chair: Janani Subramanian Room: 2.06 Jorie Lagerwey (University College Dublin): The Vampire Diaries and Horrifying Postfeminist Girls Janani Subramanian (Indiana): The Monstrous Makeover: American Horror Story, Femininity and Special Effects Adam Yerima (Wayne State): “I Don’t Know Whether to Kill it or Lick it”: Kate Argent’s Complication of Gendered and Sexual Performativity in Teen Wolf Chera Kee (Wayne State): Of Babysitters and Human Bondage: Gender and Economic Vulnerability on Syfy’s Scare Tactics Panel 3b: Deviant femininities Chair: Deborah Cartmell Room 1.48 Iris Bull (Oregon): From Saloon and Into Space: A Critical Analysis of Feminine Identity in the Space Western Genre Iris Kleinecke-Bates (Hull): Television Style / Stylish Television: Mad Men, Fashion, Design, and Identity Samantha Colling (Manchester Metropolitan): Spectacles of the everyday: the music video aesthetics of girl teen film Panel 3c: Heritage Drama and Historiography Chair: Claire Monk Room 2.07 Sallie McNamara (Southampton Solent): ‘We’re all in it Together’: Downton Abbey, Benevolence and Austerity Chic Maggie Andrews (Worcester): Downton Abbey’s Depiction of the Homefront. Heritage Spectacle or Political Critique Moya Luckett (New York): Women’s History, Women’s Work: Popular Television as Feminine Historiography Panel 3d:Institutions and otherness Chair: Mary Beltrán Room 1.49 Jane Arthurs (Middlesex): Celebrity, Gender and Reputation Management at the BBC Simone Knox (Reading): British Television Drama and Representations of Mapping the Field. Stuart Price (De Montfort): in a Story-World': gendered identity and modes of address in UK ‘lifeworld’ commercials 15.15 Coffee and tea break 15.30 Panel 4 Panel 4a Women, Ageing and Television Panel 4b Fandom (i) Panel 4c ‘Live’ on Panel 4d: Gendering the recession (ii)
Chair: Nina Huntemann Room 2.06 Julia M. Lange (Michegan): The Construction of “Casualness” as Gendered Games & Gendered Play Nina B. Huntemann (Michegan): Attention Whores and Ugly Nerds: Policing Gender and Authenticity at GameCons Carol Stabile (Oregon): Protection Rackets and Hostile Climates: Gender and Resistance in Videogames Lisa Nakamura (Michegan): Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is? Gaming Rhetoric as Gender Capital Chair: Kylie Baldwin Room 1.48 Bettina Soller (Georg-August, Goettingen): Louie: Redeeming Single Fatherhood on TV Sujata Moorti (Middlebury College): Tales of Transnational Surrogacy: Metamorphoses of Race, Nationality, and Maternalism Vicki Mayer (Tulane University): On Creole Fantasies: Flexible Circulation of Race in a Global Media Environment Anne Kustritz (Amsterdam): Slavery, Surrogacy, and Solidarity: Reproductive Anxieties and Eugenic Pastiche in Harry Potter’s House Elves Chair: Margaret Montgomerie Room 1.49 Keara Goin (Texas): Faux Gender: RuPaul’s DragU, Television Makeover, and a New Drag Performativity of Gender Kate Warner (Queensland): The Representation of Homosexuality in Long-running Television Shows about Prison. Katharina Lindner (Stirling): Queer-ing Viewing Pleasures: Cinema and Queer Phenomenology Claire Monk (De Montfort): From gay to ‘the film that launched a thousand slashers’: female fan and fanfiction responses to Maurice 11.00 Tea and coffee break, Atrium. 11.15 Plenary: Professor Charlotte Brunsdon (Warwick): ‘The Television City’. Room 0.10 12.15 Lunch, atrium. Screening : Do Look Now. Yeates (16mins) (Queensland University of Technology). Room 0.10 13.00 Panel 6
Chair: Vicki Mayer Room: 2.06 Brenda (Indiana): Oprah-topia: Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Identity on the Oprah Winfrey Network Faye Woods (Reading): Clare Balding, National Treasure: Television Personality, public service broadcasting and the London 2012 Olympic Games Mary Beltran (Texas at Austin): Latinas Only Latinas Can See: Tween TV’s Promotion of the Star Anne Gilbert (Rutgers): What We Talk About When We Talk About Bronies Media, Fantasies, and Masculinity Chair: Thomas Oates Room 1.48 Thomas (Iowa): “I’m the Boss!”: FX’s The League, Fantasy Football, and the “Crisis” of Masculinity - Jeremiah Favara (Oregon): "It's Not Science Fiction.": Gender and Symbolic Militarization in USAF Advertisements Carol Stabile (Oregon): The End of Women and The Walking Dead Bryce Peake (Oregon) : Magic The Gathering (MTG) Player Communities Chair: Diane Taylor Room 2.07 Jodie Allinson and Inga Burrows On Vocation (7mins) And Scourti : Life in Ad Words and Facebook Diaries (16 mins) Gendering television space and time Chair: Helen Wheatley Room 1.49 Amedeo (Universita Della Svizzera Italiana): Dantean Space In The Homes Of Homeland : Violations of the Gendered Spaces of Carrie & Brody Caryn Murphy (Wisconsin Oshkosh): Secrets and Lies: Gender and Generation in the ABC Family Brand Martin Zeller-Jacques (York): Television Endings, Narrative Desire and Satisfaction 16.40 Roundtable Discussion Gender Myths and Politics in Participatory Culture Liesbet Van Zoonen, Toby Miller, Andrea Press, Joke Hermes, Mark Andrejevik
Sponsored by the European Journal of Cultural Studies Chaired by Ann Gray and Helen Wood 18.00 Drinks reception sponsored by the European Journal of Cultural Studies Tuesday, June 25th 08.30 Registration 09.15 Panel 8 Panel 8 a Reconstituting Race and Gender in the Digital Age Chair: Timeka N. Williams Room: 2.06 Simidele Dosekun (King’s College London): ‘Pick Your Fave’: The disciplinary surveillance Panel 8b Constructing masculinities Chair: Jo Whitehouse-Hart Room: 1.48 Mobina Hashmi (Brooklyn College CUNY): Hung and the “real” men: White Masculinity at Work on U.S. television Panel 8c Funny women?: Discursive constructions of gender in contemporary comedies and their critical reception Chair: Karen Boyle Room: 2.07 Lisa W Kelly (Glasgow): White Girls, Black Girlfriends: Panel 8d A History of Television for Women in Britain: Highlights, insights and future agendas. Chair: Helen Wood Room: 1.49 Helen Wood (De Montfort): Introduction: setting the scene
of women on BellaNaija.com Timeka N. Williams (Michegan): Blogging Like a Natural Black Women, Self-Care, and Online Hair Communities Katharine P .Zakos (Georgia State): “This week I’m Gonna Rape Your Face”: and Identity Management in Online Fantasy Sports Leagues Thomas Johnson (Luther College): NFL Films’ They Call It Pro Football (1966): Examining the Construction of Masculinity in Early Televised Sports Programming Judith Mosoff (British Colombia) & Maureen Molloy (Auckland): How to be a Man: Lessons from The Wire Julia Leyda (Sophia): Home Cooking: Breaking Bad and “White” Western Masculinity Examining Race, Class and Gender in U.S. Female Comedy Susan Berridge (Glasgow): From Having It All to Losing Control: The Shifting Star Persona of Jennifer Aniston Karen Boyle (Stirling): What’s so funny? Gendered negotiations of the nature of comedy in online reviews Helen Wheatley (Warwick): Television Exhibitions and the Ideal Home Rachel Moseley (Warwick): Television and Address: Picturing Women in Television of Cornwall for Women Hazel Collie (De Montfort) & Mary Irwin (Warwick): ‘Bringing programme archives and oral histories together: pop music and other stories’ 11.00 Tea and coffee break, Atrium 11.15 Panel 9 Panel 9a Catfight! Chair: Misha Kavka Room: 2.06 Misha Kavka (Auckland): Anger-Porn: Women without License Dana Heller (Old Dominion): Bitch Slapped!: Panel 9b Identity work Chair: TBC Room: 2.07 Diane Taylor and Jo (De Montfort): Emotion and affect in the mediated work place Panel 9c On-line feminist activism (ii) Claire Sedgwick Room: 1.48 Anthea Taylor (Queensland): Tweeting Feminism: Naomi Wolf, Celebrity and the (Feminist) Uses of Social Media Panel 9d Absence and affect Margaret Montgomerie Room 1.49 Jon Hozier-Byrne (University College Dublin): An Addiction I Cured With My Mind; Charlie Sheen and the Gendered Narrative of Celebrity Mental Illness
Camping the Catfight in The L Word and The Real L Word Hannah Hamad (King’s College London): The Choreographed Catfight and Postfeminist Spectacles of Toxic Sisterhood in UK Reality TV Talent Shows Jeremiah Favara (Oregon): Global Mothers, Phantom Lives, and Transnational Adoption: A Case Study of Angelina Jolie Anne Graefer (Newcastle): Producing the ‘Other’ Online: Skin, Affect and Humorous Celebrity Gossip Blogs Jessalynn Keller (Texas at Austin): Rethinking a Postfeminist Citizenship: Girls' Feminist Blogging and the Politics of Publicness Alex Bevan (Massey): How to Make Victory Rolls: Material Memory and Feminism in Pin-up Girl Cyberculture Amy Holdsworth (Glasgow) and Matthew Allen (Leicester): Out of the Shadows: The Representation of Dementia on British Television Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton): Past their prime time: Women, ageing and absence on British factual television 12.45 Lunch, Atrium 13.45 Panel 10 Panel 10a Comedy and femininity Chair: Sharon Lockyer Room: 2.06 Christine Becker (Notre Dame):Form, Function, and Cultural Legitimation in Miranda Teresa Forde (Derby):Transgressive TV?: Julia Davis’ Nighty Night and Hunderby Panel 10b Online identities Lisa Nakamura Room: 2.07 Abby Waysdorf (Erasmus, Rotterdam): After the Match and Beyond: Football Fanfiction and the Mediatization of Football Andrea M. (Iowa): “Thin is what we're supposed to be, not what we're supposed to talk about”: A Panel 10c Punk Chair: Alastair Gordon Room: 1.48 Helen Reddington (East London): The Sound of Women Punk Musicians Mike Dines (Chichester): ‘I’ve Got 54321, I’ve Got a Red Pair of High-Heels On’: Feminine
Rosie White (Northumbria): Miranda and Miranda: Comedy, Femininity and Performance Patricia Ciccone (Concordia, Montreal): “I can have it all”: metafeminism and the comedic failure on 30 Rock and Girls. qualitative study of pro-eating disorder blog users Mafalda Stasi (Coventry): "You? Omega. Me? Alpha. … I can’t help it. That’s basic biology for you": New Forms of Gender Essentialism in Fan Fiction Gerald Voorhees (Oregon State): The Professional Digital Game Player as Paragon of Neoliberal Masculinity Identity, Creativity and the Self in the Scene of the 1980s Jim Donaghey (Loughborough): Punk, anarchism, and feminism in Indonesia 15.30 Coffee and tea break 15.45 Panel 11 Panel 11a Formations of Lifestyle Media Chair: Mimi White Room 2.06 Leigh Goldstein (Northwestern): A Queer History of Lifestyle TV Maureen Ryan (Northwestern): Life Styles of the Golden Land: Discourses of Lifestyle and Difference in 1960s and 70s Print Media Panel 11b Gendering the recession (iii) Chair: Diane Negra Room: 2.07 Stefania Marghitu (King’s College): 40 Years After Roe Vs Wade: Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Recession in US News Networks Christopher Holmes Smith (Southern California): “We Have Armageddon!” Media Ritual, Moral Panic, and Market Meltdown 11 c Television feminisms Chair: Hazel Collie Room: 1.48 Charlotte E. Howell (Georgia State): Is This What A Feminist Looks Like?: Explicit Feminism on Contemporary American Sitcoms Carlen Lavigne (Red Deer College): ‘Tale as Old as Time’? Beauty and the Beast as Post-9/11 Fairytale
Mimi White (Northwestern): You Live in What Cool/Extreme/Outrageous Million Dollar Room?: Spectacles of Domestic Space on American Lifestyle TV Madeleine Lyes (University College Dublin): ‘Ireland’s Bogus Beggars’: Gendered Urban Consciousness in Contemporary Dublin Aniko Bodroghozy, (Virginia): Make Room for Television History. 17.15 Closing remarks. Room 0.10 17.30 Bollyfit session with Sunita Patel, the Atrium 18.00 Conference end. (Meal at 7pm)