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Apologies for cross-posting 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/