Highlights for the Dresden Conference
Marian Meyers, FSD Chair
The 1996 Feminist Scholarship program for Dresden is bound to be both exciting and stimulating. It is certainly varied, with seemingly something for everyone. FSD received 78 submissions, which is very high for a non-US location. So we have lots of wonderful papers and panel proposals to ensure a top quality program. They range from papers that explore the media and the global gender divide, to news coverage of mothers who kill their children, networking and empowerment, and early radio coverage of birth control. In addition, panels and roundtables will examine the link between language and gender violence, multicultural feminism around the globe, female power on the TV show “The Apprentice,” the gendered experiences of academics, and transnational feminism and critical whiteness studies.
Make sure you attend the plenary interactive poster session, as well, because many of our best papers will be there. ICA has encouraged its divisions to put some of its top-ranked papers into the poster session. While it may have been the case in the past that the best papers didn’t make their way into the poster session, that is no longer the case. In fact, ICA began to give monetary awards to the top poster session papers last year and is continuing to grant awards to the top poster papers this year, as well. So be sure to check out the poster session, where you will be able to discuss the research one-on-one with the author.
Speaking of awards, three papers written by students have been chosen for FSD’s top student paper awards, which, along with the honor of public recognition for excellent scholarship, come with $200 travel grants -- $100 from the Feminist Scholarship Division, and another $100 from ICA. I am pleased to announce that the students are: Soyoen Cho of the University of Minnesota for her paper, “News Media Coverage on the New Anti-Prostitution Law in Korea: A Framing Analysis”; Rebecca Hains of Temple University for her paper, “Conducting Qualitative Research with Children: Interdisciplinary and Feminist Perspectives for Media Scholars”; and James Angelini of Indiana University for his paper, “How Did the Sport Make You Feel? Looking at the Three Dimensions of Emotion Through a Gendered Lens.” I look forward to congratulating them for their fine work at the FSD business meeting on Tuesday, June 20.
In addition to our regular program, FSD is sponsoring a pre-conference symposium entitled “International Symposium on Women and News: Exploring Research and Social Change Agendas,” which will be held Sunday, June 18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Artotel, which is the preferred conference hotel for FSD. The symposium is designed for academics, journalists, and media advocates. The panels and interactive working sessions are designed to produce agendas for the development of theory and research on women and news, as well as new policy directions. FSD is proud to sponsor this important symposium, which will feature presenters from around the world and the opportunity to discuss and develop research ideas and agendas as participants network with others with similar interests. (See article by Carolyn Byerly for more information.)
Please also make sure to attend the FSD business meeting on Tuesday, June 20, from 4:30 to 5:45, followed immediately by our reception at 6 p.m. An ad hoc planning committee is planning the reception, as well as a celebration to mark FSD’s 20th anniversary, so be sure to attend those, as well. The committee is still exploring options for an off-site party -- they have been looking at possibilities such as a feminist book store or art gallery. Whatever venue is chosen, it is sure to be a wonderful celebration – an opportunity to commemorate 20 years of feminist scholarship within ICA, to reconnect with old friends and to make new friends. Don’t miss it!
The 1996 Feminist Scholarship program for Dresden is bound to be both exciting and stimulating. It is certainly varied, with seemingly something for everyone. FSD received 78 submissions, which is very high for a non-US location. So we have lots of wonderful papers and panel proposals to ensure a top quality program. They range from papers that explore the media and the global gender divide, to news coverage of mothers who kill their children, networking and empowerment, and early radio coverage of birth control. In addition, panels and roundtables will examine the link between language and gender violence, multicultural feminism around the globe, female power on the TV show “The Apprentice,” the gendered experiences of academics, and transnational feminism and critical whiteness studies.
Make sure you attend the plenary interactive poster session, as well, because many of our best papers will be there. ICA has encouraged its divisions to put some of its top-ranked papers into the poster session. While it may have been the case in the past that the best papers didn’t make their way into the poster session, that is no longer the case. In fact, ICA began to give monetary awards to the top poster session papers last year and is continuing to grant awards to the top poster papers this year, as well. So be sure to check out the poster session, where you will be able to discuss the research one-on-one with the author.
Speaking of awards, three papers written by students have been chosen for FSD’s top student paper awards, which, along with the honor of public recognition for excellent scholarship, come with $200 travel grants -- $100 from the Feminist Scholarship Division, and another $100 from ICA. I am pleased to announce that the students are: Soyoen Cho of the University of Minnesota for her paper, “News Media Coverage on the New Anti-Prostitution Law in Korea: A Framing Analysis”; Rebecca Hains of Temple University for her paper, “Conducting Qualitative Research with Children: Interdisciplinary and Feminist Perspectives for Media Scholars”; and James Angelini of Indiana University for his paper, “How Did the Sport Make You Feel? Looking at the Three Dimensions of Emotion Through a Gendered Lens.” I look forward to congratulating them for their fine work at the FSD business meeting on Tuesday, June 20.
In addition to our regular program, FSD is sponsoring a pre-conference symposium entitled “International Symposium on Women and News: Exploring Research and Social Change Agendas,” which will be held Sunday, June 18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Artotel, which is the preferred conference hotel for FSD. The symposium is designed for academics, journalists, and media advocates. The panels and interactive working sessions are designed to produce agendas for the development of theory and research on women and news, as well as new policy directions. FSD is proud to sponsor this important symposium, which will feature presenters from around the world and the opportunity to discuss and develop research ideas and agendas as participants network with others with similar interests. (See article by Carolyn Byerly for more information.)
Please also make sure to attend the FSD business meeting on Tuesday, June 20, from 4:30 to 5:45, followed immediately by our reception at 6 p.m. An ad hoc planning committee is planning the reception, as well as a celebration to mark FSD’s 20th anniversary, so be sure to attend those, as well. The committee is still exploring options for an off-site party -- they have been looking at possibilities such as a feminist book store or art gallery. Whatever venue is chosen, it is sure to be a wonderful celebration – an opportunity to commemorate 20 years of feminist scholarship within ICA, to reconnect with old friends and to make new friends. Don’t miss it!
posted by FSD | 11:45 PM
1 Comments:
This is perhaps one of the most useful columns I've read on pedagogy in a while. I just want to add in that part of this disidentification is fostered by our colleagues who won't teach about race, gender, class, sexuality, etc. because they don't feel comfortable or, more commonly, "well that's not my area." I'm sorry but whiteness is already a position in the classroom. This is a bigger battle: how to ensure the communication curriculum promotes open discussions about cultural power so it's not 1 faculty member's burden? I really liked Robin's approach to teaching evals. I just wish it wasn't one more thing for individuals to do on their own while their colleagues think thank goodness it's not my problem.
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