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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">Emergent femininities and masculinities in 21<sup>st</sup> century media and popular culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">A three-day Symposium</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Department of Communication and Media Studies,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">School of Economics and Political Science,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/efm2022conference/home"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red">https://sites.google.com/view/efm2022conference/home</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">Dates: Thursday 15 September 2022- Saturday 17 September 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">Location:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Department of Communication and Media Studies, NKUA, 1 Sofokleous St., Athens.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">In the past few years, and in the aftermath of movements like #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite and the proliferation of celebrity culture, the call for greater diversity (either in terms
of body aesthetics, disability, racial representation or sexuality and intimacy), together with a turn to ‘character’ and ‘resilience’ building, has brought the notion that ‘representation matters’ back to surface. Indeed, increasingly, diversity, character,
resilience have become catchphrases that resonate across cultures and borders and serve not only as indicators of progress, but also as an aspirational frame for younger people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">Pointing at the possibility of reductive notions of the politics of representation, whereby the quantity of representation is automatically seen as a sign of progress- leading,
for example, to queerbaiting or colourbaiting – here, we are interested in the ways in which femininity and masculinity are being constructed, dismantled or reinvented in the course of the 21<sup>st</sup> century in everyday life and/or in the media and popular
culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">We welcome contributions from scholars and young researchers who are interested in issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, race, identity construction and culture from a variety
of analytical perspectives addressing (though not exclusively) the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Body aesthetics, discipline and the construction of femininities and masculinities<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Digital intimacy and teenage girlhoods and boyhoods<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The construction of femininities and masculinities through social media<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Femininities and masculinities within ‘cancel culture’<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The rise of hate culture: toxic masculinity, misogyny, misogynoir, misandry, incel culture<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">‘New’ (?) femininities and masculinities in television and popular culture (e.g. in the productions of Brad Falchuk and
Ryan Murphy; Shonda Rhimes, etc)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Aging, masculinity and femininity in popular film<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Influencer cultures and the promotion and marketing of genders<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Masculinity and femininity in the representation and consumption of sports<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The celebrification of motherhood and fatherhood<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Femininities and masculinities within celebrity culture<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Questions of intersections: race, ethnicity and gender<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">We invite 400-word abstracts outlining empirical, theoretical or policy-orientated papers that address these or related issues. Abstracts should be accompanied by a
100-word bio of the presenter(s) together with contact details, all sent to Prof. Liza Tsaliki at
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:Femandmasc.athens2022@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Femandmasc.athens2022@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">Abstract submission</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"> by 20 December 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">Notification of decision</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">: by 20 February 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">Registration fees:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">For members of staff: 80 euros<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%">For PhD students: 50 euros<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Confirmed keynote panel:</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Sarah Banet Weiser</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism,
and University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Rosalind Gill</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City, University of London</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Danielle R. Egan</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">, PhD, PsyaD, NCPsyA<br>
Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies and Department Chair, Psychoanalyst<br>
Connecticut College</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Sean Redmond</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">, Professor of Screen and Design, Department, SCCA Arts & Education, Deakin University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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