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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING We are delighted to announce the next sexgen event as follows: Public Lecture and Roundtable Discussion on Body Image & Gender in Neoliberal Times Thursday October 30th 2014, 4-6pm Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Lancaster University Bowland North, Seminar Room 10 Public Lecture by Prof. Rosalind Gill: 'Love Your Body and Hate It' Roundtable discussion with Prof. Gill, Dr Celia Roberts, Dr Debra Ferreday and Dr Imogen Tyler: 'Young Women and Body Image in Neoliberal Times' Prof. Gill is well-known for her research in gender and media, cultural and creative work, and mediated intimacy. Monographs include: Theorizing Cultural Work: Labour, Continuity and Change in the Creative Industries (2013) London: Routledge; New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity (2011); Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections (2009). Routledge and Gender and the Media (2006) Cambridge Polity Press. For the last decade she has made a significant contribution to debates about the "sexualization of culture". She enters this contested and polarized field bringing an emphasis upon difference - particularly the ways in which differently located groups (by age, class, gender, sexuality, vulnerability) are positioned by and in relation to sexualization - and upon new ways of thinking about the relationship between culture and subjectivity - how what is "out there" gets "in here" to shape our sense of self. Professor Gill recently collaborated on a 4 year Marsden (Royal Society) project, led by Sue Jackson and Tiina Vares, exploring how pre-teen (9-12 year old) girls negotiate living in an increasingly sexualized culture. In 2011-12 Prof. Gill was part of a team ( with Jessica Ringrose, Sonia Livingstone & Laura Harvey) commissioned by the NSPCC to research 'sexting', as part of a wider interest in young people's use of mobile internet technologies. Professor Gill is currently working with Meg Barker (Open University) and Laura Harvey (Brunel) on a book provisionally titled Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture. An interest in the dynamics of discrimination and inequality is also central to Prof. Gill's research. In the early 1990s she coined the term 'new sexism' to capture the ways in which discourses and practices of gender discrimination change and mutate under new conditions, and has developed this analysis with a sustained interest in postfeminism as a cultural sensibility. There is no need to register for this event, but it is expected to be popular so arrive early. This seminar is part of a series organised by Sally Hines, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds: [log in to unmask] and Surya Monro, Centre for Research in Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield: [log in to unmask] The Universities belonging to the Network are Durham, Lancaster, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Sunderland and York. http://sexgennorthernnetwork.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/SexGenNorthernNetwork/ Thanks and best Surya Monro Professor in Sociology and Social Policy Associate Director, Centre for Research in the Social Sciences Human and Health Research Building School of Human and Health Sciences The University of Huddersfield Queensgate Huddersfield West Yorkshire HD1 3DH UK Tel (+44) 01484 471424 Fax (+44) 01484 473603 http:www2hud.ac.uk/hhs/staff/shumscm.php This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.