Organizers:
Maria-Jose Masanet (University of Barcelona), Maite Soto-Sanfiel (National University of Singapore - Autonomous University of Barcelona)
II International Congress on Media, Gender and Sexualities: Representations, Literacies and Audiences
(Benasque Science Center, Jun 08 - Jun 12, 2025)
Monday, June 09
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-10:30 | Trans theory as media theory: Systems, categories, and plastic forms Susan Stryker |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:15 | Paper Sessions 1 - World Queer Cinema (English - ROOM A) Chair: Vítor Blanco-Fernández |
| Cuckoo's spatial negotiations in Sacred Games: A spatially sensitive close reading of safety and transgender visibility in neoliberal Mumbai Prerna Subramanian | |
| Veiled Images and queer obliteration: What we cannot see in Almodóvar's films Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco | |
| Is Pierrot queer? Bruce LaBruce’s interpretation of Schoenberg's melodrama Marcin Bogucki | |
| Moving from the imagined to the imaginary: mapping latent aspirations in gay utopias and imaginaries for gay men in Singapore Russell Yap | |
| Making waves: Mapping the themes, aesthetics, and authorship of queer award-winning films across geographies Lucia Gloria Vazquez Rodriguez | |
| Paper Sessions 2 - Feminist Activism and Women’s Discourses Online (English - ROOM B) Chair: Laura Fernández | |
| The power of saying: 'I can't do it'. A counter-narrative to idealized motherhood on Italian social medi Gabriella Taddeo | |
| Doing feminism online: Feminist creators on Instagram between individual positioning, resistance strategies and calls for change Claudia Capelli, Chiara Gius and Rosa Sorrentino | |
| Microfeminism and beyond. TikTok trend implications on Gen-Z everyday life Simona Tirocchi and Alessandra Panno | |
| 'This source sas to be a woman': Legitimizing gender mainstreaming in the newsroom through journalistic values Marta Roqueta-Fernàndez | |
| Paper Sessions 3 - Género e Igualdad en la Educación (Spanish - ROOM C) Chair: Roger Soler i Martí | |
| La Educación Sexual Integral en peligro ante el discurso de la extrema derecha. Análisis desde una experiencia en el Valle de Benasque Marina Diez-Pastor | |
| Fomentando la equidad de género en la Educación de Biblioteconomía y Ciencias de la Información: el proyecto GEDIS Juan-José Boté-Vericad, Maddalena Fedele, Mari Vállez, Lamija Silajdzic y Nadina Grebovic-Lendo | |
| La presencia de la perspectiva de género en el Grado de Educación Primaria: análisis del borrador de la Orden ECI 2023 y los planes de estudio actuales Jessica Paños-Castro, Erlantz Velasco Luzuriaga y Maialen Astarloa Martín | |
| Educación Sexual Integral en España: Políticas, desafíos y participación juvenil Mihaela Vancea y Eduard Ballesté | |
| Postmodernismo reificado y estudios de género Lydia Sánchez | |
| 12:15-14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15-15:30 | Workshops I |
| Representaciones de las disidencias afectivas, sexuales y de género desde la institución. Discursos, imágenes y contradicciones (Spanish) Maria Sanz y Elena G. Ruiz | |
| Violences spectrum (English) Pier Negri | |
| 15:30-16:45 | Paper Sessions 4 - Star Studies and Influencers (English - ROOM A) Chair: Marta Meneu |
| 'I'm so grotesque, it's like a joke'. Samantha Hudson in the public eye and the negotiation of queer visibility and neoliberal issues on MasterChef Celebrity Isabel Villegas-Simón, Ona Anglada-Pujol and Juan José Sánchez-Soriano | |
| 'Cuntalunya Triomfant': Reimagining the Catalan nation in global times through a new feminine star system Celia Martínez Sáez | |
| 'Llados, quiero ganar': a cross-platform analysis of the Spanish manfluencer Amadeo Llados' content on social media Anna Iñigo and Debbie Ging | |
| Hacking the algorithm: Tactical strategies of feminist influencers to navigate social media Clara Fagundes | |
| Paper Sessions 5 - Researching Audience's Perceptions and Discourses (English - ROOM B) Chair: Esmeralda A. Vázquez-Tapia | |
| Narrative valence in audiovisual fiction: Impact on audience perceptions of non-binary people Isabel Rodríguez-de-Dios, Vitor Blanco-Fernández and María T. Soto-Sanfiel | |
| Internet addiction and gender: Differences in attention and emotion in cognitive tasks Vicente Villalba Palacin, Lydia Sánchez Gómez and Caterina Calderón Garrido | |
| Queer visibility and media needs: Rethinking representation through the lens of Uses and Gratifications Theory in the context of Poland Julia Walczak | |
| Girls wear pink, boys wear blue Pier Negri | |
| Paper Sessions 6 - Identidades, estereotipos y contraestereotipos (Spanish - ROOM C) Chair: Jessica Paños-Castro | |
| Sobre los compositores no patriarcales y la estética Uncanny en la producción musical Ana Marjalizo | |
| Sesgos de género en la inteligencia artificial generativa: El caso de Suno Nerea Martínez Bassart, Adrien Faure-Carvallo y Diego Calderón Garrido | |
| Construcción de identidades a través del juego de rol: Performatividad, referentes culturales y representación Aida Navas-Aparicio y Mireia Alarcón-Marin | |
| Representaciones mediáticas de la discapacidad en Paraguay: Análisis con perspectiva de género en la prensa escrita de mayor difusión Fátima Schulz Vallejos | |
| 16:45-17:15 | Coffee break |
| 17:15-18:30 | Paper Sessions 7 - Reactionary Politics and Sexual Cultures Online (English - ROOM A) Chair: Mihaela Vancea |
| Beyond 'safe sex': A framework for analyzing safe sex in media campaigns Olatz Larrea and Arnau Roig-Mora | |
| Manfluencers, culture wars, and anti-LGBTQI+ politics: The role of manospheric ecosystems in amplifying queerphobia Catherine Baker and Anna Iñigo | |
| Navigating digitalization and gender-based violence: youth perceptions between recognition challenges and narratives of normalization Chiara Gius, Claudia Capelli, Rosa Sorrentino | |
| The Manosphere taxonomy: Exploring male online spaces and discourses against women, feminism and gender. An ethnographic study with male teenagers from Barcelona Anna Iñigo and Maria Jose Masanet | |
| Paper Sessions 8 - Género y sexualidades en las juventudes y audiencias (Spanish - ROOM B) Chair: Aida Navas-Aparicio | |
| Percepciones adolescentes sobre las representaciones LGBTIQ+ en la ficción seriada: un análisis cross-cultural entre España y México Esmeralda E. Vázquez-Tapia, María T. Soto-Sanfiel y Beatriz González-de-Garay | |
| El rol de los medios de comunicación en la construcción de la identidad: el caso de la identidad butch Alaitz Saez | |
| Cuenta pública y cuenta privada: esferas de privacidad digital de las personas adolescentes, autorepresentación, género y medidas de prevención de riesgos Marta Meneu y Maria Jose Masanet | |
| 'No es lo mismo saber que es trans y tú buscarlo, y no saberlo y encontrarlo': ''Víctimas'', tipología de amante cis de personas trans en la cultura mediática Paula Rodríguez Lorenzo | |
| 20:00-22:30 | Welcome Dinner Party |
Tuesday, June 10
| 09:00-10:15 | Paper Sessions 9 - Young People, Sexual Literacy, and Sexting (English - ROOM A) Chair: Eduard Ballesté |
| Young audiences and transmedia LGBTIQ+ content: perceptions and opinions Vítor Blanco-Fernández and Anna Iñigo | |
| Digital sexual literacy and wellbeing among LGBTQ+ youth in Ireland Benjamin Foley | |
| Reframing sexting: Exploring gender and age perspectives on digital intimacy Rafael Ventura, Olatz Larrea and Priscila Alvarez-Cueva | |
| What about sexting? Trivialization of digital violence, gender differences and collective responsibilities in making sense of sexting and sexpreading practices among adolescents in Barcelona Laura Fernández, Priscila Álvarez-Cueva and Maria Jose Masanet | |
| Paper Sessions 10 - Global Queer Arts (English - ROOM B) Chair: Ana Martínez Marjalizo | |
| Celebrating the Abjected: Czech literature, institutions and learning queer history Lukás Samek | |
| Deconstruction of gender roles in queer tango shows Agata Chalupnik | |
| 'Nie Xiaoqian:' A new Female ghost = A New Woman? Xiangning Hong and Shengzhe Yang | |
| Intersectionality and the representation of women. A case study from contemporary Hungarian cinema and television Annamária Torbó | |
| Deconstructing the cinematic representation of Women through stories of resistance and resilience in Indian Partition narratives Rajkahini (2015), Begum Jaan (2017) & Manto (2018) Meera Shirodkar and Shirish Sharma | |
| Paper Sessions 11 - Consentimiento e intimidad digital (Spanish - ROOM C) Chair: Sergio Villanueva Baselga | |
| Estrategias del activismo feminista contra la violencia sexual en la España del consentimiento (Ley 'Sólo sí es sí'). Análisis del caso Errejón Lorena Gómez-Puertas, Cristina Perales y Isaac Pecino Peláez | |
| Deepfakes, violencia de la imagen y especulación regeneradora: repensando la intimidad digital desde una perspectiva de género Cristina Voto | |
| Consentimiento sexual en la era digital: Una revisión sistematizada sobre su papel en la violencia sexual en línea Cecilia Barba Arteaga | |
| 'Tinder es para adultos, nosotros usamos Instagram': códigos afectivos, prácticas mediáticas relacionales y lenguajes sobre intimidad de las personas adolescentes Marta Meneu, Anna Iñigo y Maria Jose Masanet | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Round Table Presentation of R+D Projects |
| 12:15-14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15-15:30 | Workshops II |
| Cut, paste, resist - Zine co-creation workshop on gender, sexualities and media (English) Enric Senabre Hidalgo and Nadia Nadesan | |
| Los límites del análisis del audiovisual: ¿Cuáles son los problemas de analizar hegemonías desde lo queer y lo queer desde las hegemonías? (Spanish) Paula Serna Arranz, Salvatore Luigi Tabone y Elena Rodríguez Gómez | |
| 15:30-16:45 | Paper Sessions 12 - Mediated Sexual Cultures (English - ROOM A) Chair: Maria-Jose Masanet |
| Unveiling 'Pornormativity': An exploration of socially shared notions on pornography among Flemish young adults Leontine Hellemans | |
| Embodied intimacies and moving beyond: Sexting and affective sexuality in Chinese queer contexts Shengzhe Yang and Xiangning Hong | |
| 'To be queer, To be in dating apps, To be queer in dating apps': Biographical queerness and the creation of safety strategies in online dating behind stigma and fears of Italian queer young adults Rachele Reschiglian, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli and Brady Robards | |
| Theoretical-methodological approach to the critical analysis of menstrual product advertisements Mireia Pérez-Sabadell | |
| Paper Sessions 13 - TV Series: Gender stereotypes and audiences’ responses (English - ROOM B) Chair: Isabel Rodríguez-de-Dios | |
| Mental health and sonic stereotypes: A critical analysis of audiovisual representation Adrien Faure-Carvallo and Caterina Calderón Garrido | |
| Education for diversity: Gay stereotypes in TV series and their impact on Spanish and Mexican Teenagers Ariadna Angulo-Brunet, Esmeralda A. Vázquez-Tapia, Juan-José Sánchez-Soriano and Emerson Vicente-Cruz | |
| Restricting fat pleasure: Fatphobia in the representation of sexuality and love in Bridgerton season 3 Rebeca Maseda García, Elisabet Marco Arocas and Emma Gómez Nicolau | |
| Affective Disillusionment and Female Narrative: A Reception Study of Women-Centered Chinese Television QI WU | |
| Paper Sessions 14 - Género y producción audiovisual y periodística (Spanish - ROOM C) Chair: Isabel Villegas-Simón | |
| Directoras queer en el cine español: entre la autoría y la integración industrial Santiago Lomas-Martínez y Beatriz González-de-Garay | |
| 'I’m, like, so gay, dude': El estrellato queer de Kristen Stewart. Sangre en los labios (Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass, 2024) como caso de estudio María Adell Carmona y Violeta Kovacsics Grisolía | |
| Influencia de la violencia de género en la construcción de la identidad y auto-presentación de las streamers españolas en Twitch Gemma Gómez Bernal, Fernanda Pires y Esmeralda A. Vázquez-Tapia | |
| El auge de la fachosfera: Claves del discurso antifeminista en YouTube Aleix Martí Danés, Isaac Pecino y Elisenda Aguilera Cora | |
| 16:45-17:15 | Coffee break |
| 17:15-18:30 | Paper Sessions - Online Identities and Narratives (English - ROOM A) Chair: Anna Iñigo |
| Online personal narratives in obesity treatments: managing identity and fatphobia in a medicalized world Lara Martin Vicario | |
| 'I’m Straight, but…': Affect and rhetoric of heterosexual anxiety Doron Mosenzon and Dana Kaplan | |
| From 'discreet only' to 'only masc': An Exploration of visual representations on Grindr from rurality Antonio A. Caballero Gálvez | |
| 'I love sapphic stories, they give me hope for the future': femslash of the video games Gone Home and Unpacking Ona Anglada-Pujol | |
| Paper Sessions 16 - Humor y comedia en las culturas audiovisuales (Spanish - ROOM B) Chair: Adrien Faure Carvallo | |
| Violencia verbal y representación discapacitada en el cine español: Un análisis queer-crip de Campeones (2018) y Cuerpo Escombro (2024) Sílvia Maestre Limiñana | |
| Contubernio films: ¿Los caballos de Troya? Un análisis de la representación en la comedia en el Estado español Paula Serna Arranz, Salvatore Luigi Tabone y Elena Rodríguez Gómez | |
| Autoparodia queer en TikTok: formatos, discursos y percepciones del humor de autodesprecio en creadoras de contenido LGTBIQ+ en España Marina Romero Bermejo, Marc Hernandez Ruiz y Maria Castellvi Lloveras | |
| El lenguaje humorístico como estrategia de inclusión intergeneracional en la representación de la diversidad sexual. El caso de la serie de ficción Hacks Carolina Arrieta-Castillo | |
| 19:15-20:30 | Mi cuerpo no pidió tu opinión (Spanish - monologue) Magdalena Piñeyro |
Wednesday, June 11
| 10:00-12:30 | Leisure Activity / Free Time |
| 12:30-14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15-15:30 | Co-Working Sessions Participants are warmly invited to propose or join these open sessions to share new research ideas, explore potential collaborations, test out concepts or proposals, and/or receive constructive feedback. These sessions are intentionally informal and flexible in format, designed to encourage dynamic exchange and spontaneous interaction. Even if you don't have a specific idea to pitch, you are very welcome to attend as an audience member or observer. If you would like to propose a session, feel free to reach out to the organizers for assistance. You are also welcome to make use of any available rooms at the Centre to hold your session. |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:30 | Almodóvar and Foucault on friendship: Revisiting the aesthetics of existence Paul Julian Smith |
| 17:30-18:00 | Congress Closing |
| 20:30-22:30 | Congress Closing Dinner |
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