women experts on the media campaign

[Mills, Sara]

From: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies discussion list [mailto:WISPS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Thornton, Niamh
Sent: 21 March 2012 09:57
To: WISPS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [WISPS] FW: campaign for more expert women on TV and radio
 
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Academic excellence for business and the professions
 

Your support needed
Campaign for 30 per cent female 'experts' on television and radio news
Dear colleagues,

Why do male experts outnumber women experts by a huge majority on news and current affairs TV and radio?

The Journalism Department at City University London is conducting a monthly survey of selected TV and radio programmes to establish the ratio of male to female authority figures. Our figures show that men still outnumber women as experts by an average of at least four to one.

As a result of this, Broadcast magazine, the TV and radio industry mouthpiece, is running a campaign to improve the ratio with a petition asking broadcasters to commit to having at least 30% female experts.

It would be great if you could consider signing. As they say in the US, you can't be what you can't see – and with so few women on air, all our female students have few role models.

Please sign the petition here

And you can see me discussing the campaign here on YouTube:


Thanks so much – this is one campaign which can affect change quickly and painlessly, with your help.

Kind regards,

Lis Howell
Director of Broadcasting
City University London

PS. Please feel free to forward this email to friends/colleagues.

 
 
City University London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB
 

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From: International Gender and Language Association [GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Chris [chris.trundles at TISCALI.CO.UK]
Sent: 21 March 2012 11:12
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Subject: [GALA-L] Fwd:  Postcolonial Traumas (4/13/2012; 9/13-14/2012) UK

of interest?  Pass on as you wish - no need to reply - kind regards - Chris


Postcolonial Traumas Conference

Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Nottingham Trent University

13th-14th September 2012

Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Patrick Williams, Nottingham Trent University

Around the time of Frantz Fanon's famous articulation in Black Skin, White Masks (1952) of the 'massive psychoexistential complex' created by colonisation, such writers as Octave Mannoni and Albert Memmi were also thinking about colonisation's damaging psychological effects. In more recent years, the work of trauma theorists, including Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Marianne Hirsch, Dominick LaCapra and Dori Laub, has been both embraced and rejected by postcolonial theorists and critics. Whilst, for some, trauma theory has provided a helpful way of conceptualising the often painful and difficult legacies of colonialism, others have been all too aware of what Stef Craps and Gert Buelens (2008) have recognised as the 'Eurocentric blind spots that trauma theory will have to confront if it is to have any hope of delivering on its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement'. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to reflect on this promise and explore new ways of thinking about postcol
onial trauma.
Conference participants will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for an edited collection.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

*Slavery and indenture
*Colonial legacies
*Neocolonial trauma
*Apartheid
*Genocides
*Survival and resistance
*Tourism and eco-trauma
*Migration and displacement
*Asylum
*Witnessing and testifying
*Memory and trauma
*The ethics of trauma studies

Please send 300-word abstracts and 50-word bios to Abigail Ward by Friday 13th April 2012: abigail.ward at ntu.ac.uk.