[csaa-forum] Public lecture -- Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser -- Thursday December 5

[Claire Perkins]

Dear all,

Please find below and attached details for a forthcoming public lecture by
Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser on Thursday December 5. We do realise this
clashes with the CSAA conference, but hoping some can still join us! Please
note RSVP is essential, via link below or on attached flyer.



*#BelieveWomen: Believability in an Age of Post-Truth*



*A public lecture by Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor of Media and
Communications at London School of Economics*



Presented by Gender & Media Lab; Culture, Media, Economy; and the Screen
Cultures Research Program – all in Monash University’s School of Media,
Film & Journalism



The contemporary ‘post-truth’ era —misinformation, disinformation, outright
lies in a digital age—is proclaimed to be a moment of crisis. It is seen as
an affront to fundamental, and indeed, scientific claims of being and
knowing. But *authenticity, truth, believability*: these are historically
messy concepts, which have always depended on the actors who have been
authorized by the mantle of veracity in their understandings of the world
and of themselves. Women, people of color, non-normative people have lived
in an age of post-truth for decades, indeed, centuries, precisely because
they are rarely believed to be speaking the truth. In this lecture, I want
to trouble the distinctions between “truth,” “authenticity,” and
“believability” from a specifically gendered perspective. I interrogate the
recent manifestation of the “post-truth,” and argue that the truth has
always depended on those who are authorized to define it. That is, the
concern around post-truth has become urgent when those who have defined the
truth historically—primarily white, privileged men—begin to witness
*their* truths
eroding. This is also a question of belief and its historical and
contemporary gendered and racialized contours. Who is privileged enough to
be believed, and to be in possession of “evidence”?



This lecture will consider the contemporary conjuncture of post-truth,
believability, and gender identity, and theorise the kinds of subject
positions that take hold and are given authority in particular ways in the
contemporary moment.





BIO: Sarah Banet-Weiser is Professor of Media and Communications and Head
of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of
Economics. Previously, she was Vice Dean and Director of the  Annenberg
School of Communication at the University of Southern California. She is an
acclaimed scholar who has won numerous awards for her research, spanning
gender in the media, identity, citizenship, and cultural politics, consumer
culture and popular media, race and the media, and intersectional feminism.



DATE: Thursday 5 December 2019, 5.30pm - 7pm, Performance Space, The
Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street

RSVP: Please RSVP via link by 28 November 2019 -
https://forms.gle/ffmmcRFnw7jMBEuS8

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
https://www.monash.edu/arts/media-film-journalism/news-and-events/events/events/believewomen

CONTACT: For more information please contact Claire Perkins –
claire.perkins at monash.edu



-- 
Dr Claire Perkins

Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies
School of Media, Film & Journalism
Room B4.27a, Caulfield Campus
Monash University
Victoria 3145
AUSTRALIA

+61 3 9903 1239
claire.perkins at monash.edu

Latest article: Claire Perkins & Michele Schreiber, 'Independent Women:
>From Film to Television'
<https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNPU2SQ8DMYD3BTNHMUV/full?target=10.1080/14680777.2019.1667059>,
*Feminist Media Studies *19:7 (2019).

Series co-editor, *Screen Serialities
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-screen-serialities-html.html>
*(Edinburgh
UP)

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