With apologies for cross-posting: The University of Leicester’s Media and Gender research group requests the pleasure of your company! - at the one-day symposium: *‘Something old, something new: the wedding spectacle across contemporary media cultures’* *Friday, September 16th, 8.45am - 6pm, with a wine reception to follow* *Bankfield House, 132 New Walk, University of Leicester, LE1 7JA* *Keynote speakers: Brenda Weber (Indiana University Bloomington) and Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton)* *Discussant: Diane Negra (University College Dublin)* *The event is hosted in association with CAMEo, the university's new research institute for Cultural and Media Economies* *Register here <http://shop.le.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=7&catid=744&prodid=4909>* At this symposium, a range of papers delivered by international and UK-based scholars will seek to explore how the increasing visibility of the wedding spectacle across media cultures can be understood in relation to broader shifts and transformations in the politics of gender, sexuality, class and race. Some of the questions that the symposium will seek to address are: How have the international but deeply uneven shifts in legislation around equal marriage resignified the gender politics of the wedding? How are the changing ways in which ceremonies are photographed and shared through social media networks remaking our understanding of the wedding as a public/private event? How are national, cultural and ethnic identities negotiated, intensified or reworked through the wedding spectacle? Does the increased visibility of the wedding-as-spectacle signal a renewed attachment to traditional heteronormativity and patriarchal practices? Or does the wedding spectacle open up new expressive possibilities for contesting and resisting gender norms? Registration costs £25, which includes lunch, refreshments and a wine reception. RSVP: [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu