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Due to illness this lecture has been postponed.
Dr Theresa Senft, UELProgramme Leader and Lecturer in Media Studies
This talk engages with the politics of female sexual self-display over the Internet, especially focusing on teens in America and the U.K. It begins by discussing a recent U.S. law suit filed by two Indiana teens against their high school principal after he punished them for posting risqué photos in a private section of their MySpace accounts. Echoing current wisdom that there is never a guarantee of privacy on the Internet, the American Civil Liberties Union (representing the girls) has chosen to frame their activities as free-speech acts, arguing that these teens were expressing themselves to themselves in two sorts of bedrooms: their real-life one, and their online one.
This talk, frames the case in terms of Theresa's recent work on a phenomenon she calls “micro-celebrity”: a new way to perform the self that combines the visual techniques of corporate branding with the distribution technologies of the Internet. Theresa is particularly interested in how sexism and ageism converge within micro-celebrity’s overwhelming investment in the so-called ‘attention economies of the Web.’ This speech returns to a question raised in her book Camgirls: “Why are women continually encouraged to express themselves in media through confession, celebrity and sexual display, yet punished with conservative censure and backlash when their representation becomes ‘too much’ to handle?”
Dr Theresa M. Senft combines ethnographic method with feminist and postcolonial critique to examine how new media technologies shape our currrent debates about the private, the public, the pornographic, and the pedagogic in global society.
Theresa's newest book is entitled, CAMGIRLS: Webcams, LiveJournals and the Personal as Political in the Age of the Global Brand (2007). Her co-authored History of the Internet,1843-Present won an American Library Association citation as one of the best reference books of 1990. Portions of her co-edited Sexuality & Cyberspace have been translated into Spanish by internet enthusiasts, and the book has been assigned in over 50 universities.
Inspired by a new generation of public intellectuals in the popular press as well as online, Theresa has published essays in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and other venues. She has appeared on National Public Radio, has been profiled in Lingua Franca and was recently a consultant and participant in the forthcoming documentary, Webcam Girls (Aerlyn Weissman, director.)
Since Winter of 2006, Theresa has been a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East London.
All welcome, admission FREE. Light refreshments available.
For further details and to confirm your attendance, contact our events team on 020 8223 2884 or events@uel.ac.uk
For travel information to our Docklands campus see: http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands.htm
James Avis, Director of Research and Professor of Post Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Huddersfield
The presentation explores conceptualisations of work-based learning, knowledge and practice. It sets the discussion in its socio-economic context, one in which knowledge is seen as the route not only to societal competitiveness but also to wellbeing. Such arguments emphasise the turbulent environment in which work is set as well as the fluidity and rapidity in the transformation of knowledge. Different ways in which knowledge is conceptualised within these debates are examined, arguing that transformation is frequently set on a capitalist terrain rather than being tied to a radical political project.
For further details and to confirm your attendance, contact Margaret Malloch m.e.malloch@uel.ac.uk
For travel information to our Stratford campus see: http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/stratford.htm
Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Radhika Coomaraswamy was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict in April 2006. In this capacity, she serves as a moral voice and independent advocate to build awareness and give prominence to the rights and protection of boys and girls affected by armed conflict.
The lecture is organised by The Centre on Human Rights in conflict Spring Events Series 2010
Full details of the series on www.uel.ac.uk/chrc or to confirm your attendance contact Victoria Perry v.perry@uel.ac.uk
All welcome, refreshments provided, admission Free
Chair: Mark Stephens, Chair of UEL Governors, libel lawyer and trustee of Index on Censorship
Wherever there is a dictatorship or totalitarian regime, its first quarrel is with those who oppose. They are often found in universities, places where teaching and research should flourish. Around the world, university lecturers and researchers can face persecution, imprisonment and torture for challenging those in power.
Mr B, Mr K and Miss S will discuss the personal threats and difficulties in carrying out their academic work in Iran, Sudan, Zimbabwe (anonymised for reasons of security).
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