Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

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International Congress on Media, Gender and Sexualities: Representations, Literacies and Audiences

2023, Jun 06 - Jun 10

Organizers:
Maria-Jose Masanet (University of Barcelona)
María Teresa Soto-Sanfiel (National University of Singapore - UAB)

Download pdf version of the program here.


Download Congress Proceedings here.


Wednesday, June 07
  • 08:00-09:00
  • Registration
     Science Centre. Secretariat. Lobby

  • 09:00-10:30
  • KEYNOTE SPEAKER
     
      A distinction: What makes us do what we do. On the study of media and gender
     Sofie Van Bauwel (Room A)

  • 11:00-12:30
  • KEYNOTE SPEAKER
     
      Trans radical media engagement of mothers and daughters on Youtube and Instagram
     Lucas Platero Méndez(Room A)

  • 14:15-15:30
  • WORKSHOPS
     
      WP1 - Reconstruyendo el imaginario sobre la sexualidad adolescente
     Maria González. Centro Joven de Atención a las Sexualidades (Room A - This workshop will be in Spanish)
      WP2 - From research to the classroom: how to design learning situations with gender perspective
     José Miguel Tomasena. Barri Media Lab. (Room B)
      WP3 - Creating diverse realities. A workshop on fictional character creation through the ODA report
     Emilio Papamija Urbano (Room C)

  • 15:30-16:45
  • PAPER SESSIONS
     
      PS1 - Film Studies, Gender and Diversities I
     Chair: Sergio Villanueva (Room A)

      A movie with a happy messy ending: Mess as a queer tactic is Lebanese cinema
     Abed Al Wahab Kassir, Cilia Willem and Iolanda Tortajada
      Queering melodrama in Argentina: Domestic sphere, adolescents and non-normative desire
     Daniel Mourenza
      (Re)constructing the villain beyond gender stereotypes. The heroine journey as a new narrative structure in Disney's female characters
     Margarida Carnicé Mur, Maddalena Fedele and Maria-José Masanet
      Sadly Straight: The Affective Dynamics of Heterosexuality in Gay Pornography.
     Doron Mosenzon

      PS2 - TV Series Representations and Diversities
     Chair: Anna Iñigo (Room B - This session will be in Spanish)

      ¿Permanece el estigma en la representación transgénero en la ficción seriada? Análisis del personaje central de 'Euphoria' como referente vanguardista
     Carme Ferré Pavia and Nathalie Martín
      Dystopia and teen characters: The 100 and non-normative representations
     Maddalena Fedele, Maria-Jose Masanet and Margarida Carnicé Mur
      Representación audiovisual del colectivo LGBT: tendencia arquetípica de los personajes en las series de ficción televisiva
     María José Higueras-Ruiz and María González-Corisco
      Non-binary representation in teen series aimed at general audiences
     Vítor Blanco-Fernández, Sikemi Akinmade and María Teresa Soto- Sanfiel
      Presenting the 'DIGISCREENS - Identities and Democratic Values on European Screens' European project
     Ángela Rivera-Izquierdo, Orianna Calderón-Sandoval and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa

      PS3 - Online Discourses and Gender Violence
     Chair: Esmeralda A Vazquez (Room C)

      Cancel culture, Amber Heard and Just Stop Oil: an intersectional, feminist desecration of freedom of speech
     Marta Roqueta-Fernàndez
      'Nunca caminarás sola' Crisis social: estudio de caso sobre el discurso de odio antifeminista hacia el Ministerio de Igualdad liderado por Irene Montero
     Metzeri Sánchez-Meza, Lluïsa Schlesier Corrales, Mariona Visa Barbosa and Marga Carnicé Mur
      RedPill re-visited: new expressions of anger and misogyny online
     Ng Qian Qian
      Defending local oppression by citing global liberation: TERF populism against imaginary trans privileges in Turkish new media
     Liv IZGI
      Online hostility against women
     Tamara Kunić

  • 17:15-18:30
  • PS4 - Literature, Gender and Sexualities
     Chair: Laura Fernández Aguilera (Room A)

      White, middle-class... and mad? Representations of bisexuality in French young adult fiction, 2013-2020
     Elizabeth L. Chapman
      Reassembling the literary canon from the margins: The case of the Mexican feminist reading marathon \#GuadalupeReinas
     José M. Tomasena and Mar Guerrero-Pico
      In the book world: A gender perspective
     Michela Donatelli

      PS5 - Formal Education, Gender and LGBTI+
     Chair: Adriana Ibiti (Room B - This session will be in Spanish)

      Creating media content with a gender perspective: The case of undergraduate students of Audiovisual Communication
     Adrien Faure-Carvallo, Hibai López-Gonzalez, José M. Tomasena and Maddalena Fedele
      Gender and LGBTQ perspective in information and media studies: the GendIMS case
     Anna Villarroya, Juan-José Boté-Vericad, Maddalena Fedele and Marga Carnicé Mur
      GEMPIMS: A mentoring program to incorporate the gender perspective in Information and Media Studies
     Juan-José Boté-Vericad, Anna Villarroya, Aurora Vall and Marga Carnicé Mur
      Profesores de hoy diseñando el futuro: un estudio piloto de percepciones sobre la relación entre la diversidad sexual y de género y el contexto escola
     Marcus Pereira Junior, Maria Filomena Rodrigues Teixeira and Ana Rodrigues

      PS6 - Responses to Media Representations
     Chair: María Teresa Soto-Sanfiel (Room C)

      Current concerns in using scales to measure attitudes towards LGTBI people in media
     Ariadna Angulo-Brunet, Oscar Lecuona and Miguel Ángel López-Sáez
      Spanish adolescents perspectives of LGBTQ+ characters in scripted series
     María Teresa Soto-Sanfiel and Esmeralda A Vazquez
      Trans audiences on trans representation in media: amidst visibility, stereotypes, transnormativity and pedagogy
     Rafael Ventura, Isabel Villegas-Simón and Juan José Sánchez-Soriano
      Presentation of Retrats Intermitents (Intermittent Portraits), a podcast of LGBTIQA+ representation, plus a live recording of a program
     Vítor Blanco-Fernández, Isabel Villegas-Simón, Ona Anglada-Pujol, María Castellví Lloveras and Isabel Rodríguez de Dios


    Thursday, June 08
    • 09:00-10:30
    • KEYNOTE SPEAKER
       
        Intersectional perspectives on gender and sexualities: representations, methodologies and applications
       Maria Rodó-Zárate (Room A)

    • 11:00-12:30
    • ROUND TABLE: Researching on LGBTI+, Gender and Media - Presentation and Discussion of Research Projects
       Chair: Eduard Ballesté-Isern (Room A)

        Transmedia Gender and LGBTI+ Literacy (Universitat de Barcelona)
       Maria-Jose Masanet, Anna Iñigo, Laura Fernández Aguilera, Maria González, José Miguel Tomasena, Fernanda Pires, Vítor Blanco-Fernández, Sergio Villanueva, Margarida Carnicé Mur, Adrien Faure, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Cristina Colomé

        LGBTIQ+ representations in Spanish fiction series and its effectiveness in reducing prejudice based on sexual orientation and gender identity
       María Teresa Soto-Sanfiel, Ariadna Angulo-Brunet, Vítor Blanco-Fernández, Beatríz González de Garay, Juan José Sánchez-Soriano, Esmeralda A Vazquez, Rafael Ventura and Isabel Villegas-Simón

    • 14:15-15:30
    • WORKSHOPS
       
        WP4 - Queerizando el periodismo local: reflexiones sobre el tratamiento mediático de las disidencias sexogenéricas a partir de una experiencia formativa en un medio de comunicación leridano
       Ixeya Quesada Consejo. Asociación Colors de Ponent (Room B - This workshop will be in Spanish)
        WP5 - We Need You! (Re)Defining Tools to Assess Transphobia in Adolescents
       Ariadna Angulo-Brunet. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Room C)
        WP6 - Do you want to help our characters to flourish? 'All The Flowers' transmedia project impact production workshop
       Alejandro Angel Torres and Carmen Oquendo-Villar (Room A)

    • 15:30-16:45
    • PAPER SESSIONS
       
        PS7 - Film Studies, Gender and Diversities II
       Chair: Margarida Carnicé Mur (Room A - This session will be in Spanish)

        Elogio de la diferencia: Sexualidad, cuerpo y performance en la primera etapa del cine de Victoria Abril
       María Adell Carmona
        Estrategias de inscripción de las sensibilidades queer en Fogo-fátuo (Rodrigues, 2022)
       Pablo Calviño Tato
        Fijar el momento: la cámara fotográfica como vehículo de representación de la subjetividad lésbica en el cine contemporáneo
       Violeta Kovacsics and Francina Ribes

        PS8 - Non-Fiction Narratives, Gender and Sexualities
       Chair: Daniel Mourenza (Room B)

        Representations of gender and sexuality in international documentaries about the Olympic Rio
       Ana Teresa Gotardo and Ricardo Ferreira Freitas
        Denouncing media LGBTIfobia. Challenges for the information and communication rights facing hate speech in Catalonia
       Anna Clua-Infante, Vicent Canet and Josep Granados- Lladós
        La presencia del deporte femenino en la Televisión Pública Española, temporada 2021/22
       Isaac Pecino Peláez and Lorena Gómez
        Beyond the newspaper's headlines: How the relation with feminism affects the representation of women in cultural press
       María Martínez Sánchez

        PS9 - Gender and Sexualities in Social Media
       Chair: Vítor Blanco-Fernández (Room C)

        LGBTIQ representations in tourism: the case of lesbian travel influencers
       Núria Abellan Calvet
        New trends and models of femininity on Tiktok
       Simona Tirocchi
        El efecto de los Influencers. Su influencia según el género a través de las historias de Instagram
       Vicente Villalba Palacin, Elena Sorribes Soto, Lydia Sanchez Gomez and Caterina Calderon Garrido
        We can laugh at anything, but not at my beauty! Gender differences in the use of Tik Tok filters
       Gabriella Taddeo
        He fucked the girl out of me: portraying trauma and gender identity in gaming
       Bruno Leal
        Mitigating transphobia through the narratives of transgender YouTubers
       María Teresa Soto-Sanfiel and Isabel Rodríguez-de-Dios
    • 17:15-18:30
    • PS10 - Debates on Sex, Gender and Media
       Chair: Rafael Ventura (Room A)

        Desiring to possess/desiring proximity
       Bianca Arnold
        Integrating the animal standpoint into critical gender and LGTBI+ media studies
       Laura Fernández Aguilera and Tugçe Ataci
        Too queer or not too queer? Media portrayal of the European song contest in light of Hungary's withdrawal
       Alexandra Sipos
        The Music Analysis Model (MAS-Model) from a content analysis: An approximation to problematize contemporary music representations
       Priscila Alvarez-Cueva
        Reimagining sexual scripts: Technology and sexuality in the digital age
       Facundo Nazareno Suenzo
        Cuerpos menstruantes: representaciones mediáticas y sociales
       Marina Diez-Pastor Prado

        PS11 - Informal Learning, Media, Gender and LGBTI+
       Chair: José-Miguel Tomasena (Room B)

        Hacking the narrative: Examining trans literacies in video games
       Alex Andriushchenko
        Writing matter(s):dis-entangling feminist materialdiscursive practices in Alejandra Smits transmedia work
       Belén Cornejo Daza
        La campaña ABCLGBTQIA+ Aprender es parte: impacto mediático
       Maria Filomena Rodrigues Teixeira, Fernando M. Marques and Ana Frias
        Breaking sexual taboos! Peer-to-peer informal learning about sexuality and gender in a transmedia environment
       Maria-Jose Masanet, Laura Fernández Aguilera and Sergio Villanueva
        (Un) Doing Gender in Psychotherapy: A queer workshop for psychotherapists and practitioners to enhance their cultural competencies in healthcare for LGBTQIA+ people
       Pilar Alejandra Navarro Cerda, Marta Alicia Giménez Páez and Marta Evelia Aparicio García

        PS12 - Social Media, Audiences and Sexualities
       Chair: Ariadna Angulo-Brunet (Room C)

        'I tell you whether she is sexy or slutty': Female gaze on Chinese social media
       Jiangnan Xiang
        Queer internet memes as memes of naïve camp reading
       Matej Hrib
        Social media and adolescents: Genre differences in uses, motivations and perceptions
       Oihane Korres Alonso, Álvaro Moro Inchaurtieta, Iciar Elexpuru Albizuri, Ignacio Bergillos García and Sue Aran-Ramspott
        Social media, youth and hate speech along gender and sexuality: Experiences, interpretations, and ways of dealings
       Raik Roth
        (Post)Feminist debates on sexual consent in the teen series 'The hockey girls': Reactions of audiences in Instagram
       Orianna Calderón-Sandoval, Isabel Villegas-Simón and Pilar Medina-Bravo


      Friday, June 09
      • 16:00-17:30
      • KEYNOTE SPEAKER
         
          Trans after trans: Representing gender variance
         Jack Halberstam (online)

      • 17:30-18:00
      • CONGRESS CLOSING
         
      • 21:00-23:00
      • CONGRESS CLOSING DINNER in SOMMOS Hotel Aneto
         

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