THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: FEMINISM, POWER, CELEBRITY
Apologies for cross posting:
As more and more academics develop public profiles on television, radio
and the internet, and research policy is increasingly geared to social and
economic ‘impact’, this is an exciting time to reflect on issues related to
the gendered public intellectual. This one-day symposium brings together an
inter-disciplinary group of scholars to examine gender politics and the
figure of the female public intellectual in Britain today. Topics of
discussion include: feminism and the public intellectual; gender, communication and
the public sphere; gender and the academic star system; intellectuals and
celebrity culture; celebrity feminism; and researching women’s scholarship
in the public sphere.
For information on how to register, please contact: Dr Carrie Hamilton
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Confirmed speakers:
Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon (Birkbeck) ‘Feminist Meeja and Academia - not a two-way street’
Dr Sarah Churchwell (UEA) ‘Crossing the Divide: Minding the Gap’
Dr Su Holmes (UEA) ‘Celebrity, the Media and Academia’
Dr Nina Power (Roehampton) 'Impact meets Social Justice: Why Being a
Feminist in Public is not Always Popular'
Respondents: Professor Heather Nunn (Roehampton) & Dr Estella Tincknell
(UWE).
Date and time: Tuesday 25 May 2010, 10am – 5 pm
Location: British Library, Euston Road, London; Room MR 4
Fee (including morning coffee, buffet lunch and afternoon tea): £40
full-time staff; £25 reduced rate (for staff under full-time and postgraduate
students)
For information on how to register, please contact: Dr Carrie Hamilton
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Co-sponsored by: The MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network and the Journal of Gender
Studies
Organisers: Dr Carrie Hamilton and Dr Anita Biressi, Centre for Research
in Sex, Gender and Sexuality, Roehampton University, London
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