The Media and Gender Research Group at the University of Leicester is
pleased to announce its Autumn 2020 virtual seminar series. The seminars
will take place on Zoom – all welcome. To register, please contact Jilly
Boyce Kay ([log in to unmask]).
*All sessions UK time *
· *October 16, 17.00 – Jilly Boyce Kay (Leicester)*: Book launch:
Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech
· *October 28, 16.00 – Hannah Hamad (Cardiff)*: Nurses in the media
from Call the Midwife to #ClapForNHS: Exploring the politics of gender and
race in UK media discourse
· *November 4, 16.00 – Simidele Dokesun (LSE)*: “But She is Not A
Real African Woman”: Refusing ‘Analytics of Containment’ in Feminist
Cultural Studies
· *November 25, 16.00 – Helen Wood (Lancaster)*: The Working Class
Girl: Beyond Risk and Resilience
· *December 9, 16.00 – Safiya Noble (UCLA)*: tbc
*Dr Melanie Kennedy (SFHEA)*
*Lecturer in Media and Communication*
School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of
Leicester, Bankfield House, 132 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7JA
Tel: 0116 223 1624
https://leicester.academia.edu/MelanieKennedy
Associate Editor, Commentary and Criticism for *Feminist Media Studies*
(Routledge)
*Latest publication **‘**If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl
aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet
right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis*, *European
Journal of Cultural Studies* (2020) available here
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1367549420945341>.
*New books** The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture:
Something Old, Something New *(London: Routledge, 2020) available here
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Wedding-Spectacle-Across-Contemporary-Media-and-Culture-Something/Kay-Kennedy-Wood/p/book/9781138586239>
.
*And **Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture* (London:
IB Tauris, 2019) available here
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tweenhood-9781780768427/>.
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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
https://screensite.org/
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