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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/
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