[Air-L] Registration open: Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality conference

[Ebtihal Mahadeen]

Registration is now open for the Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality
conference, to take place in York on May 26th, 2012. This international
conference is hosted and organised by the Centre for Women’s Studies at the
University of York/UK. It investigates the interdisciplinary study of
sexuality, media, and gender from an Arab perspective and the intersection
between all three. The AWMS conference aims to provide grounds for
discussion and analysis of these three disciplines and to encourage debate,
research and networking in these fields.



Due to the unanticipated volume of interest, the conference will run
concurrent panels according to the following provisional programme:





Time

Activity

9:00 – 9:30

Registration, refreshments

9:30 – 9:45

Welcome and announcements







9:45 – 11:30



Panel 1:

Cultural Products: TV and Talk Shows ( Treehouse)



Panel 2: On Veiling and Unveiling (Bowland Lecture Theatre)



11:30 – 11:55

Break: refreshments





12:00 – 1:15



Panel 3: Cultural Products: Music, Novels, and Poetry (Treehouse)





Panel 4: Cultural Products: Advertisements and Drama (Bowland Lecture
Theatre)

1:20 – 2:15

Lunch in the Treehouse



2:20– 3:45



Panel 5: East – West (Treehouse)



Panel 6: Resistance (Bowland Lecture Theatre)



3:45 – 4:00

Break: refreshments



4:00 – 5:00



Panel 7: New Media (Bowland Lecture Theatre)



5:00 – 5:15

End remarks and thanks

5:15 – 6:30

Wine/juice reception in the Treehouse





The panels will feature papers by delegates traveling to York from all over
the world. A few delegates will be offering papers through long-distance
conferencing. The event itself will be hosted in the Berrick Saul Building
in the University of York campus, in the UK. More information can be found
on the conference’s official blog: awmsconference.wordpress.com. Up-to-date
information can also be found on the conference’s facebook page:
http://tinyurl.com/7kb4lgt.



The registration fee for Arab Women, Media, and Sexuality is £25, to
include documentation, refreshments, lunch, and the wine/juice reception at
the end of the day. Registration is now open on the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/7c7neen* . **The deadline for registration is April
1st*.Queries should be directed to Ebtihal Mahadeen
im544 at york.ac.uk or Rachel Thwaites ret508 at york.ac.uk.



We look forward to seeing you in York in May.