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Dear Colleagues,

Please find below details of the forthcoming conference WOMEN, POWER and 
THE MEDIA to be held at Aston University (room MB 118), on the 15th of 
September 2007. The conference fee is £25 for staff and £15 for students. 
If you are interested in attending, please download the registration form 
from our website at: 
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/whatsnew/womenpowerandthemedia/registration.jsp 
and post or fax it by 
10th of September to:

Dr Pierre Larrivee
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University
Birmingham B4 7ET, UK

Fax: +44 (0) 121 204 3766

Conference Programme

10h15-11h15 Registration 

11h15-11h30 Welcome word

Session 1, Chair: Mercedes de Grado

11h00-11h30
Jemima Anderson, Grace Bota & Afrakoma hMensa (University of Ghana, Legon), 
Powerful Women in Powerless Language: Media Misrepresentation of African 
Women in Politics. The Case of Liberia

11h30-12h00
Sally Berrisford (The Robert Gordon University), Women MSPs; A Perception 
of their Role, Image and Representation through the Scottish Media.

Lunch

Session 2, Chair: Pamela Moores 

13h30-14h00
Joaquin Garrido (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Gender in media 
discourse. A contrastive analysis of multimodal news on French presidential 
elections 

14h00-14h30
Gerard O'Grady (Swansea University), The Unfolded Imagining of Ségolène 
Royal

14h30-15h00
Núria Fernández García (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Leader media 
construction. Ségolène Royal media treatment analysis in Le Figaro and 
Libération

15h00 - 15h20 Coffee / tea break

Session 3, Chair: Angela Kershaw 

15h20-15h50
Ekaterina Nossenko Hercberg (Université Paris Descartes), The 2007 
presidential campaign in France: language, media, and sexual discrimination 

15h50-16h20
Béatrice Fracchiolla (Université de Paris 8, Laboratoire du SYLED – 
Université de Paris 3 & MSH Paris nord), The debate Royal / Sarkozy
16h20-16h50
Julian Barnes & Pierre Larrivée (Aston University), Arlette Laguiller: Does 
the mainstay of the French political far-left enjoy linguistic parity with 
her male counterparts?

17h20-18h20 Plenary discussion


For further information, see our website at: 
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/whatsnew/womenpowerandthemedia/