Below is the detailed agenda of the Gender and Communication Section's four Online Interactive Sessions, to be held on 26, 27, 28 and 29 June. All times are UTC. Don't know what time that is? Find out.
1. Agency, Social Relations and Diplomacy
Monday, 26 June | 06:00 – 07:30 UTC
Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87646641883?pwd=eE1UbjNlamhVVHZ5Ryt0dDB1YVNuZ…
Meeting ID: 876 4664 1883
Passcode: 433567
Chair: Dr Wajiha Raza Rizvi, Film Museum Society | Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan
Session description: This interactive session Agency, Social Relations and Diplomacy focuses on early to post-feminist dilemmas: from contemporary women desiring beauty to female bodies being policed and violated in China, to women exercising agency, leadership potential and role in developing social and diplomatic relations among peoples of kinds in Saudi Arabia in the 7th century CE. It further explores artist interactions in telegram group chats, and female virtual idols.
Six research papers as outlined below will be presented and discussed. Each presenter is requested to provide a 7 min presentation, with the final 20 mins of the session reserved for discussion & Q&A.
Presentations
- Dr Wajiha Raza Rizvi: Mojza Bibi Syeda Fatima Zahra: Agency, Leadership and Gender Role in Jew-Muslim Relationship (ExOrdo No. 128)
- Ms Gaohuan Chen: Post-feminist dilemma, desiring beauty, and the breakout of new middle-class women in China: a critical discourse analysis of Li Jiaqi’s beauty live streaming and “all beauties” - GEN/ESN Joint Session (ExOrdo No. 4727)
- Mr Jiru Zeng: Reinforced Sexism, Policed Bodies and Reproduced Power: An Analysis Based on Online Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Experience of Young Chinese Women (ExOrdo No. 2585)
- Ms Li WEI LIN: Image Design: The Logic of Digital Image Construction of Female Virtual Idols (ExOrdo No. 3327)
- Ms Panfeng Hu: Male bonding through shared backstage: An analysis of Chinese Pick-up Artist interactions in Telegram group chats - GEN /ESN Joint Session (ExOrdo No. 3949)
- Ms Pan Sun: Social media use and women's Sexual Attitude Communication in China: A discussion based on online social capital and sexual shame (Ex Ordo No.3902)
Contact email: Dr Wajiha Raza Rizvi wajiharaza@fulbrightmail.org
2. Cyber Publics: Love, Adultery and Queer Readings
Tuesday, 27 June | 07:00 – 08:30 UTC
Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81495585397?pwd=LzVlek95eWVBbjZMeERadHNrU3Y1Q…
Meeting ID: 814 9558 5397
Passcode: 602667
Chair: Dr Wajiha Raza Rizvi, Film Museum Society | Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan
Session description: This interactive session Cyber Publics: Love, Adultery and Queer Readings examines papers on intimate relationships against the backdrop of a digital space. Keeping in mind the unmeasurable impact of technology on human emotions and actions, this panel examines how cyber publics perceive and consume ideas of love online, how online media promotes adulterous content and influences the lives of cyber publics, and how queer studies are popularizing in American, European and Asian cultures.
Six research papers as outlined below will be presented and discussed. Each presenter is requested to provide a 7 min presentation, with the final 20 mins of the session reserved for discussion & Q&A.
Presentations
- Mr Shitong Sun: Watching Japanese Adult Video in China: Reconcilement, Detachment, and Gender Representation (ExOrdo No. 3246)
- Ms Xiao Yang and Dr Bei Ju: Homesickness and Lovesickness: The Intimate Relationship of Filipina Domestic Workers in Macao (ExOrdo No. 271)
- Ms Yongkun Wu: Desire Construction in Cyberpublics: A Queer Reading of F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers (ExOrdo No. 2509)
- Ms Zihe Xu, Ms Ruoxi Liu, Ms Shangxuan Ying & Dr Tinli Liu: “‘SHE’ or ‘HE’? —Anti-Sexism Initiation Effect of Algorithm Sexism” (ExOrdo No. 2109)
- Ms Yan Tan & Dr Shih Diing Liu: Our Advice is to Break up”: Mediating Intimacy on Douban (ExOrdo No. 2123)
- Dr Jue Lu & Ms Yani Guo: Re-imagining China through female athletes: the interpretations of female athletic media images in People’s Daily(1946-2022) (ExOrdo No. 3064)
Contact email: Dr Wajiha Raza Rizvi wajiharaza@fulbrightmail.org
3. Gender Equity and Development (Roundtable)
Wednesday, 28 June | 13:00 – 14:30 UTC
Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89739446169?pwd=SWozNGN4Y3g2VHA4b3lrNndGckFFZ…
Meeting ID: 897 3944 6169
Passcode: 706282
Chair: Dr Carolina Matos, City University, UK
Session description: This round-table interactive session Gender, Equity and Development includes research papers on gender and development, from studies that examine the impact of ICTs in rural communities in India as well as gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in Pakistan to images of female masculinity idols in Chinese TV shows and the changes in sexual climate in Netflix’s first Arabic film, Perfect Strangers.
Seven research papers as outlined below will be presented and discussed. Each presenter is asked to provide an approximately 5 min presentation, with the final 15 mins of the session reserved for questions and discussion.
Presentations
- Dr Mausumi Bhattacharyya: Bridging the Gender and Development Gap: The Impact of ICT in Four Select Villages of Birbhum District, West Bengal, India (ExOrdo No. 3545)
- Dr Saima Shahid: Exploring the role of Masjid and Imam in achieving gender equality and empowerment of rural women and girls in Pakistan (ExOrdo No. 4375)
- Dr Christy Mady and Dr Jessica Elkhoury: Changing the Sexual Climate: Impiety, Inspiration, a Bit of Both or Not at All in Netflix’s First Arabic Film Perfect Strangers (ExOrdo No. 3228)
- Dr. Jonalou Labor & Dr. Ma Rosel San Pascual: Pakikipagkapwa in the LGBTQIA+ Movement for the Enactment of the SOGIE Equality Bill (ExOrdo No. 955)
- Dr Ke Jiang: From Masculinity to Androgyny: The Images of Female Masculinity Idols in Chinese TV Shows (ExOrdo No. 862)
- Dr Fei Wu: Short Video Empowering and Gender Role Negotiating for Returning Entrepreneurial Women in China (ExOrdo No. 1789)
- Ms Nakanfè Dagnogo: Social media for women's empowerment, the case of Ivorian women entrepreneurs (ExOrdo No. 1448)
Contact email: Dr Carolina Matos Carolina.Matos.1@city.ac.uk
4. Feminism and Environmental Advocacy
Thursday, 29 June | 13:00 – 14:30 UTC
Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85109825546?pwd=S0I2a0tESVF1TEhxQytWaGV1RGpWQ…
Meeting ID: 851 0982 5546
Passcode: 697588
Chair: Dr Carolina Matos, City University, UK
Session description: This interactive session Feminism and Environmental Advocacy explores papers that study various forms of feminism and advocacy, from environmental to political. It contains research papers that examine digital media use for weather information in Nigeria to opinion discourses on the #MeToo movement in the Portuguese media. It also has papers on body image satisfaction among Chinese young females and the examination of rhetoric, feminism and environmental advocacy in the texts of African Wangari Maathai.
Five research papers as outlined below will be presented and discussed. Each presenter is requested to provide a 7 min presentation, with the final 20 mins of the session reserved for discussion & Q&A.
Presentations
- Dr. Samuel Ayodele Ojurongbe, Dr. Maria Stella C. Tirol, Pro. Cleofe S. Torres, Dr Benjamina Paula G. Flor & Dr Jaine Cadoc-Reyes: Exploring Rhetoric, Feminism and Environmental Advocacy in the Texts of African Wangari Maathai (ExOrdo No. 124)
- Dr Onyinyechi Nwaolikpe & Dr Chinyere Mbaka: Digital Media Use for Weather Information During the 2022 Flooding among Small-Scale Women Farmers in Nigeria (ExOrdo No. 5194)
- Ms Jiaying Liu & Prof. Shuang Chen: Things Go Right or Athwart? A Quantitative Analysis of Intention, Fitness Self-Tracking and Body Image Satisfaction Among Chinese Young Females (ExOrdo No. 686)
- Dr Carla Cerqueira, Dr Célia Taborda Silva & Dr Ana Sofia Pereira: Ambivalences in opinion discourses about the #MeToo movement in the Portuguese media (ExOrdo No. 4839)
- Dr Florian Diener: Rich wrinkled businessmen and unwrinkled housewives? A study on current developments of the double standard of aging in contemporary advertisement (ExOrdo No. 2697)
Contact email: Dr Carolina Matos Carolina.Matos.1@city.ac.uk
