Category: conference
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The 4th International Conference on Gender Studies
The 4th International Conference on Gender Studies attracted scholars from Canada, China, UK, Germany, USA, Israel, India, South Africa and Switzerland. The participants debated issues such as gender and education, gender and social media, LGBTIQ issues, gender and literature and gender and patriarchy. As with previous years, the conference was held in January (this time…
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The 6th International Conference on Women’s Studies
The 6th International Conference on Women’s Studies was a truly fantastic experience with several interesting panels and intellectual debates about the position of women in the contemporary world. The best attended and most debated panels were, as it was expected, two panels on #metoo movement where scholars debated issues surrounding the origins of the #metoo…
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#Crisis6: Is Crisis Communication a research agenda relevant to media and women’s studies?
In October 2019, we helped in organising ECREA’ Crisis Communication conference entitled #Crisis6: Innovations in Risk and Crisis Communication While Crisis Communication is an established academic field with strong theory development and researchers based in countries all around the globe, it is not something that is commonly associated with women’s and media studies, even though…
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3rd International Conference on Gender Studies
27th January 2019 Venue: Queens hotel Leeds, United Kingdom RATIONALE It has become quite common to use the term gender for sex, albeit this is incorrect. The infants are assigned male or female sex, while gender is more complicated because it encompasses not just biological sex but also personal sense of being male, female, both…
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5th International Conference on Women’s Studies
26th January 2019 Leeds, United Kingdom Venue: Queens Hotel, City Square, Leeds, LS1 1PJ RATIONALE Feminists started to advocate equality and fight for women rights decades ago, and so far we have experienced several waves of feminism. While at the beginning of activism, the issue was in women’s equality in general for women were banned…
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5th International Conference on Media and Popular Culture
12th January 2019 Leeds, United Kingdom Venue: Queens hotel Leeds RATIONALE It is an unobjectionable fact that media participate in formation of our daily lives by creating identities, images, and by generally influencing our views. This applies not only to politics (i.e. political campaigns), but also to the formation on how we see ourselves and…
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3rd International Conference on Media and Popular Culture
14-15 January 2017 Leeds, United Kingdom Conference venue: Queens hotel, City Square, Leeds, LS1 1PJ It is an unobjectionable fact that media participate in formation of our daily lives by creating identities, images, and by generally influencing our views. This applies not only to politics (i.e. political campaigns), but also to the formation on how…
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2nd International Conference on Identity Studies, Vienna, Austria
6-7 September 2016 Conference venue: ***** Hotel De France, Schotenring 2, 1010, Vienna, Austria RATIONALE Identities are various: personal, national, religious, regional, racial, gender etc., and it is very difficult to determine which identity is affecting us most. Sometimes it can be one, and sometimes the other. For example, during the presidential race in the…
