Women, Ageing and Media (WAM)

这个系列的主题，妇女、老龄化和媒体，源于缺乏对老年妇女的印刷和屏幕表现形式激增的持续调查。它的创新特征之一是它的目的是将来自不同文化和智力背景的学者联系起来，并将媒体和文化研究中关于“老年妇女”的新兴研究与主导现有知识的医疗保健政策、老年学、经济学、社会护理和社会学方面的现有研究放在一起(Rosenthal，1990，Hepworth 2000，Bernard等2000，Arber等2003)。该系列的第二个有价值和及时的特点是其理论理解的发展。最近为探讨老龄化和媒体而制定框架的一些尝试通常是对老龄化和/或性别采取更广泛的办法的组成部分(Blaikie，1999；Feldman and Poole，1999；Woodward，1999；Featherstone和Wernick，1995)，并且只在一定程度上考虑到妇女在媒体报道老龄化和老年方面所占的独特地位。关于老龄化的女权主义研究的传统(例如，德·波伏娃1970年；麦克唐纳和里奇，1983年)最近被更新并汇集在一起(Cruikshank 2002,2006)，但这一传统只有一些方面专门针对媒体，通常很少关注非西方形象。我们提议的研讨会为学者们提供了一个机会，让他们质疑这一理论，并结合当代媒体形象、卫生和社会保健、经济学和社会科学中产生的现有知识，以及通过跨文化和国际对话对其进行评估。因此，这一建议的第三个优势在于，它致力于与来自不同文化和种族背景的既有和新兴学者接触。借鉴中国和南亚区域的研究成果，对于在我们的全球媒体背景下增进对妇女和老龄化的理解具有特别重要的意义。这意味着我们提议的国际会议将嵌入全球化的问题，因为全球媒体图像和文本的流动产生了一个关于老年妇女的竞争和冲突的媒体生态。每一次研讨会/研讨会活动都是为了有更新的和更成熟的学者混合而设计的。最后一个要素是举行一次国际会议，使讲习班/研讨会的与会者与一些国际学者汇聚一堂。以下，我们列出了每个研讨会/工作坊的主题重点和指示性讲者名单。研讨会一：英国西部大学可见性和隐形协调人Josephine Dolan博士塔拉·布拉巴松，布莱顿大学，UKestella Tinckerell，威斯康星大学，布里斯托尔，UKAB Gardner，英国格洛斯特郡大学，研讨会二：情感和情感协调者，Kristin Gorton博士，约克大学教授。萨拉·艾哈迈德，英国伦敦大学金匠学院教授。丹尼斯·莱利，东安格利亚大学，英国玛丽·伊格尔顿，利兹都市大学，英国研讨会三：怪异的身体和可怕的女性气质协调人：Jo Garde-Hansen博士，格洛斯特郡大学Julie Doyle博士，布莱顿大学，UKIrmi Karl，布莱顿大学，UKRina Rossleson，第三时代大学，英国研讨会四：商品化与消费主义/协调人Sherryl Wilson博士，格洛斯特郡大学教授。Karen Ross，英国利物浦大学，英国伦敦经济学院，英国，Julia Hallam博士，英国利物浦大学，国际会议：跨文化：女性、老龄化和媒体/协调人Ros Jennings博士，英国格洛斯特郡大学博士。凯特·奥梅纽加，奥卡大学，尼日利亚奥卡教授。Stella Chinyere Okunna，奥卡大学，尼日利亚奥卡教授。凯瑟琳·伍德沃德，华盛顿大学，USADR。梁丽静，香港城市大学博士。陈顺兴，香港岭南大学教授，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校教授。

The theme of this series, women, ageing and media, stems from an absence of sustained investigation into proliferating print and screen representations of older women. One of its innovative features is its aim to link academics from different cultural and intellectual backgrounds and to position emerging research on 'older women' in media and cultural studies alongside established research in healthcare policy, gerontology, economics, social care and sociology that dominates existing knowledge (Rosenthal, 1990, Hepworth 2000, Bernard et al 2000, Arber et al 2003).A second valuable and timely feature of the series is its development of theoretical understandings. Some recent attempts at developing frameworks to explore ageing and media have usually been constitutive of broader approaches to ageing and/or gender (Blaikie, 1999; Feldman and Poole, 1999; Woodward 1999; Featherstone and Wernick 1995) and only partly attend to the unique position that women occupy in relation to media representations of ageing and old age. A tradition of feminist research on ageing (e.g. de Beauvoir 1970; MacDonald and Rich, 1983) has recently been updated and drawn together (Cruikshank 2002, 2006), but only some aspects of this address media specifically and generally little attention is paid to non-Western images. The seminars we propose represent an opportunity for academics to interrogate this theory and to assess it in relation to contemporary media images, existing knowledge produced in health and social care, economics and the social sciences, and through trans-cultural and international dialogue.Thus, a third strength of this proposal is in its commitment to engaging with scholars, established and emerging, from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on research in the China and South Asia regions is of particular importance for generating understandings of women and ageing in our global media context. This means that our proposed international conference will be embedded in questions of globalization as the global flow of media images and texts generates a media ecology of competing and conflicting representations of older women.Each seminar/workshop event is designed to have a mix of newer and more established scholars. The final element is an international conference which brings together the participants of the workshops/seminars with a selection of international scholars. Below, we set out the thematic focus of each seminar/workshop together with a list of indicative speakers.Seminar one: Visibility and Invisibility Co-ordinator Dr Josephine Dolan, University of the West of EnglandProf. Tara Brabazon, Brighton University, UKEstella Tincknell, UWE, Bristol UKAb Gardner, University of Gloucestershire, UKSeminar two: Emotion and Affect Co-ordinator, Dr Kristyn Gorton, University of YorkProf. Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKProf. Denise Riley, University of East Anglia, UKMary Eagleton, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKSeminar three: Monstrous Body and Scary Femininity Co-ordinator: Dr Jo Garde-Hansen, University of GloucestershireDr Julie Doyle, Brighton University, UKIrmi Karl, Brighton University, UKRina Rossleson, University of the Third Age, UKSeminar four: Commodification and Consumerism / Co-ordinator Dr Sherryl Wilson, University of GloucestershireProf. Karen Ross, Liverpool University, UKSadie Wearing, London School of Economics, UK Dr. Julia Hallam, Liverpool University, UKInternational Conference: Crossing Cultures: Women, Ageing and Media / Co-ordinator Dr Ros Jennings, University of GloucestershireDr. Kate Omenugha, Awka University, Awka, NigeriaProf. Stella Chinyere Okunna, Awka University, Awka, NigeriaProf. Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington, USADr. Leung, Lai Ching, City University of Hong KongDr. Chan, Shun-hing, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Prof. Vivian Sobchack, UCLA, USA.