International conference on women and the new media in the Mediterranean region

[Fatima Sadiqi]

>From Fatima Sadiqi (sadiqi_fatima at yahoo.fr)
I am pleased to inform you that Isis Centre for Women and Development is organizing an international conference on "Women and the New Media in the Mediterranean Region" on June 24, 25 and 26, 2011 at Palais des Congrès, Fez, Morocco
Presentation will be in Arabic, French and English with simultaneous translation. Here is a sketchy program

 
Friday June 24 
 8:30 : Registration
9:00 : Opening: Welcome speeches
9: 30-10: 00 :   Reception
 

Keynote Speaker: Marlyn Tadros (Director, Virtual Activism)
                       
Revolutionaries vs governments: use and abuse of  new media in the Arab Revolutions of 2011 (Arabic)
 
Isabelle Collet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Cybersoda : A pedagogical tool to “de-genderdize” the mastery of computer science (in French)
 
 Alia Papageourgious (European Commission, Brussels)
Following media via social media and learning more
 
Chemseddoha Boraki (Abdelmalek Saadi Faculty, Tangiers) 
When Walls are Silenced… The women bloggers!
 
Sheila Lalwani (University of Georgetown, USA)
Muslim women-led new media in Morocco, Germany and the United States
 
Sussan Tahmasebi (Founder of the “One million signatures”, Iran)
The internet as a tool for transforming the discourse on women’s rights and building a women’s movement in Iran
 
Mozn Hassan (President, Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt) 
Egyptian women and social media tools (in Arabic)
 
Zahir Rahman (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA)
>From the Keyboard to the Megaphone: Defining the Moroccan Female Youth Activist
Moussa El-Hadji-Mama (Journalist, Vie et Espoir, Republic of Benin)
New media, communication and advocacy in Bénin (in French)
 
Teresa-Claudia Tavares (Polytechnic Institut of Santarém, Portugal)
Defeat the trolls, become a troll oneself : The conquest of public space by women in the 19th century and the present time
 
Christine Fontanini (University of Montpelier 3, France)
The role of video games in the school and professional orientation choices (French)
 
Olena Goroshko (National University of Vasyl Karazin, Ukrainia)
Is e-learning a gender-sensitive model of modern education?
 
Jennifer Hall (University of Michigan, USA)Old languages and new media: women and emerging forms of Moroccan Arabic in public space
 
Malika Benaouda (University of Blida, Algeria)
Women and Media Tools in Algeria (in Arabic)
 
Nadia Lamhaidi (Higher Institute of Information and Communication, Rabat, Maroc)
The new media and education (in Arabic)
 
Madina Borana Touré (Mauritania)
Some language minorities in North Africa: The role of TICs in the expansion of mother tongues in Southern Mauritania (in French)
 
Mary Koutselini (Director, UNESCO Chair “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment”, University of Cyprus)
Gender inequalities in new media work: What and whose knowledge is of most worth?
 
Moha Ennaji (President, International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fez)
Using New Media to Combat Violence Against Women
 
Anissa Daoudi (Université Durham, Grande Bretagne)
Female voices in the MENA region: any chance of “change” of gender discourse(s)? after the revolutions” (in Arabic)
 
Melodee Baines (Université Old Dominion, Virginia USA) and et Natalie  McGarry (The Brookings Institute, Washington)Obstacles to and victims in development: The treatment of illiterate women in Arab media and society Christie Edwards (Vital Voices, Washington DC)Approaches to literacy and information through social media by international donors and civil society groups
Hela Kochbati (Researcher, Tunisia)
Arab women’s rights and images in the media: The promotion of gender beyond sexism (French)
 
Farida Bouassoune (President, Center for Studies and Research on Women, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez)
‘Women of Morocco’ : What reading of Moroccan society?
 
Film Screening:  “Dry Eyes (By Narjiss Nejjar)
Chair: Aziz El Hakem (Al Huriyyah Cultural Complex, Fez)
 
Sara Borillo (University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy)
Islamic feminism and feminine Islamism online: An analysis of the female public sphere on the web. The case of webpages of Morocco
 
Osire Glacier (University of Bishop, Sherbrook, Canada)
Moroccan feminism as universal feminism
 
Karen Vintges (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Nuria Andreu (Film and Photography, Spain)
New images of Muslim women and new feminisms in the media
 
Faiza Shereen (California State Polytechnic University Pomona USA)
Body and Byte:  New Media and Live Performance
 
Teresa Pepe (Université d’Oslo, Norvège)
Autofiction on the screen: Self-representation of  Egyptian women in literary blogs
 
Zehra Handan Salta (Université d’Istanbul) et Zerrin Yanikkaya (Université de  Yeditepe, Turquie) 
A storm in a teacup: could a TV serial unveil the privacy of Ottoman palaces? Protests, discussions and comments
 
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