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The University of Leicester’s Media and Gender Research Group is pleased to
announce its Spring 2021 series of virtual talks. Everyone is welcome –
please register via the Eventbrite links below:





*Wednesday February 24, 16.00 (GMT)*

‘Getting In & Getting On With It: Coping with “Leaky” Tech’

Alison Harvey (York University, Canada)

Register here
<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.co.uk%2Fe%2Falison-harvey-getting-in-getting-on-with-it-coping-with-leaky-tech-tickets-136327119083&data=04%7C01%7Cmjk29%40leicester.ac.uk%7C6f70503db7e64a4a5b4b08d8c6b12574%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637477811421639444%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=2tsvvgC1dtTHFsk1%2ByJhuKIgg3HxLRSONurYDpw5rFI%3D&reserved=0>



*Thursday March 11, 16.00 (GMT)*

‘Beyond Risk and Resilience: Gender, Class and Value Struggles’

Helen Wood (Lancaster University)

Register here
<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.co.uk%2Fe%2Fhelen-wood-beyond-risk-and-resilience-gender-class-and-value-struggles-tickets-138416578713%3Faff%3Derelpanelorg&data=04%7C01%7Cmjk29%40leicester.ac.uk%7C6f70503db7e64a4a5b4b08d8c6b12574%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637477811421649399%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=FsWb1XpwEQVoVTpUkDcTVLhPXc1elgEXtMeBtxt1fB0%3D&reserved=0>



*Wednesday March 31, 16.00 (BST)*

*Feminism & the Politics of ‘Resilience’ *by Angela McRobbie: Panel
Discussion.

Speakers: Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths), Kim Allen (Leeds), Hannah Hamad
(Cardiff), Melanie Kennedy (Leicester), and Catherine Rottenberg
(Nottingham). Chaired by Jilly Kay (Leicester).

Details of the event here
<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.co.uk%2Fe%2Ffeminism-the-politics-of-resilience-by-angela-mcrobbie-panel-discussion-tickets-136277781513%3Faff%3D&data=04%7C01%7Cmjk29%40leicester.ac.uk%7C6f70503db7e64a4a5b4b08d8c6b12574%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637477811421659357%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=b7nSSAJdJKnZGnepLBeW0KXA4aC3Qz79nTm8X8fgLrg%3D&reserved=0>.


*Please note that the event has sold out but will be livestreamed on
YouTube here
<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCKhZshoehbokC8tqF5sRl9g&data=04%7C01%7Cmjk29%40leicester.ac.uk%7C6f70503db7e64a4a5b4b08d8c6b12574%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637477811421659357%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3v6ShmG%2BTS26BIvke0hvcaymT32ry8AF%2F0%2F85UYxNJo%3D&reserved=0>.*





For enquiries please get in touch with Melanie Kennedy ([log in to unmask]) or
Jilly Kay ([log in to unmask]).



*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://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/media/people/melanie-kennedy


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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