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<span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">Kia ora,</span></p>

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<span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">Please join us in a discussion about </span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">Barbie</span><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">.

 All welcome; in person and on Zoom. Circulate with students, and interested parties,</span></p>

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<span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">Ngā mihi</span></p>

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<span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">Rosie</span></p>

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<span class="s3" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedItalicBody;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Barbie: Possibilities and Impasses</span></p>

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<span class="s4" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">When: </span><span class="s5" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">10am-11am, 15th August (8am AEST; 6am WA time)</span></p>

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<span class="s4" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Where: </span><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">Burns 4 / Zoom: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2thcnrvj" style=""><span class="s5" style="text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/2thcnrvj</span></a></span></p>

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<span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">Does </span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">Barbie</span><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal"> smash

 the patriarchy? Is to be “Kenough” something worse? Or is </span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">Barbie</span><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal"> an

 extended Mattel advertisement? In Barbie’s own words, the film is in an “impossible” position — celebrated, maligned, and, most of all, memed. Join us as we unpick the possibilities and impasses of </span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">Barbie</span><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal"> in

 an open in-person and Zoomed discussion hosted by the Media, Film & Communications Programme at the University of Otago. </span></p>

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<span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">Panelists are <a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago0244020.html" style=""><span class="s5" style="text-decoration:underline">Sabrina Moro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052280.html" style=""><span class="s5" style="text-decoration:underline">Brett

 Nicholls</span></a> & <a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html" style=""><span class="s5" style="text-decoration:underline">Rosemary Overell</span></a>. </span></p>

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