[Air-L] Feminism and Intimacy in Cold, Neoliberal Times

[Radhika Gajjala]

http://fem.icahdq.org/ohana/website/?p=84677204

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*Feminism and Intimacy in Cold, Neoliberal Times*

*June 21st, 2013 (10 am - 6 pm)*
Annual Gender Event, Goldsmiths University of London. Departments of Media
and Communication, and SociologyChaired by Angela McRobbie, Sara Ahmed,
Beverly Skeggs, Sarah KemberFor detailed information, please visit
http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=6554

This event will bring prominent feminist researchers and two visual artists
together to discuss key dynamics within the field of feminist and queer
intimacy studies. We will consider, among other things, the possibility of
a cultural politics of love, queer resistances in the ‘trans’ forming of
clinical and therapeutic practice, class relations in changing worlds of
intimacy, the politics of care and compassion, the market for
‘self-esteem’, mother love, family ‘human capital’, and modes of countering
the ‘insurgent patriarchy’ of contemporary neoliberalism.

We welcome scholars from the US who are able to speak at Goldsmiths,
University of London in connection with the Annual ICA Event.
All speakers are keynotes, papers will be 25 minutes in length.

10-11.30
Lynn Jamieson (Edinburgh) New Sociologies of Intimacy
Sarah Banet-Weiser (USC)  Economies of Visibility and the Market for
Self-Esteem
Lyndsey Moon (Roehampton) Queer Resistances: ‘Trans’ forming Clinical and
Therapeutic Practice

11.45-1.15
Priya Kapoor (Portland)
Susan Douglas (Michigan) Enlightened Sexism meets Enlightened Ageism
Andrea Press (Virginia) Feminism LOL Media Culture in a Post-feminist Age

2.00-3.30
Carol Stabile (Oregon) Magic Vaginas: The End of Men and Working Like a Dog
Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green) Digital Subaltern 2.0
Lisa Henderson (Amherst, Mass) Queers and Class

4.00-5.30
Heidi Hoefinger (NDRI, NY) Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia
Kerstin Drechsel (Kassel and Berlin) Heat Storage Systems
Mary Whilte (Loughborough) Mummy Work

5.30- 6.30 drinks reception.
ALL WELCOME

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*May 13, 2013*

*2013 Teresa Award Ceremony*

The Feminist Scholarship Division is delighted to announce that Karen Ross,
professor of Media and Public Communication, and director of postgraduate
research in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool, is the
2013 recipient of the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist
Scholarship.

The award will be presented during the ICA conference in London at a
ceremony and reception to be held Tuesday, June 18, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at
the Hilton Metropole in Hilton Meeting Rooms 16 and 17. Please join us in
celebrating Karen's many accomplishments.

Karen was chosen for the award from a very competitive field. Both the
quality and quantity of her work are truly exceptional -- in the important
questions tackled in her research, whether in the context of gendered
political communication, media representation, or activism, as well as in
her work to advance women in higher education and media organizations. Her
commitment to social change as evidenced by her efforts to create a more
equitable, inclusive and just academy, her position as the inaugural editor
of *Communication, Culture & Critique*, as well as all of her other work on
editorial boards and elsewhere, also speak to her status as an
internationally renowned and highly respected feminist scholar who has
significantly contributed to the advancement of feminist scholarship. The
committee is delighted to be able to present this much deserved award to
her.

We hope you can join us in honoring Karen!  I look forward to seeing those
of you who can make it in London!

All the best,
Marian Meyers
(on behalf of the Teresa Award Committee)