Women, Ageing and Media (WAM)

这一系列的主题是妇女、老龄化和媒体，其原因是对印刷品和屏幕上大量出现的老年妇女形象缺乏持续的调查。它的一个创新特点是它的目的是联系来自不同文化和知识背景的学者，并将媒体和文化研究中有关“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、社会关怀和社会学的既定研究放在一起。（Rosenthal，1990，赫普沃思2000，Bernard等2000，Arber等2003）。该系列的第二个有价值和及时的特点是它对理论理解的发展。最近在制订探讨老龄化和媒体的框架方面所作的一些尝试通常是对老龄化和（或）性别问题采取更广泛办法的组成部分（Blaikie，1999年; Feldman和Poole，1999年; Woodward，1999年;费瑟斯通和Wernick，1995年），而且只是部分地注意到妇女在媒体对老龄化和老年的报道中所占的独特地位。女性主义研究老龄化的传统（例如，de Beauvoir 1970; MacDonald and Rich，1983）最近得到了更新和整合（Cruikshank 2002，2006），但只有一些方面专门针对媒体，一般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，让他们能够质疑这一理论，并根据当代媒体形象、卫生和社会保健领域、经济学和社会科学领域的现有知识以及跨文化和国际对话来评估这一理论。因此，这一提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学者（无论是老牌学者还是新兴学者）进行接触。借鉴中国和南亚地区的研究成果，对于在全球媒体背景下了解妇女和老龄问题特别重要。这意味着我们提议的国际会议将深入探讨全球化问题，因为媒体图像和文本的全球流动产生了一种媒体生态，对老年妇女的描述相互竞争和冲突。最后一项内容是举办一次国际会议，将讲习班/研讨会的与会者与一些国际学者聚集在一起。以下是每个研讨会/工作坊的主题及讲者名单。研讨会一：可见与不可见统筹主任Josephine Dolan博士，西英格兰大学教授。塔拉布拉巴松，布莱顿大学，UKEstella Tincknell，UWE，布里斯托UKAb加德纳，格洛斯特郡大学，英国研讨会二：情绪和情感协调员，克里斯汀戈顿博士，约克大学教授。萨拉艾哈迈德，金史密斯学院，伦敦大学，英国教授。丹妮丝·莱利，东英吉利大学，英国玛丽·皮特尔顿，利兹都市大学，英国研讨会三：单身汉的身体和可怕的女性协调员：乔·加德·汉森博士，格洛斯特郡大学朱莉·道尔博士，布莱顿大学，英国伊尔米·卡尔，布莱顿大学，英国丽娜·罗斯里森，第三年龄大学，英国研讨会四：商品化和消费主义/协调员雪莉·威尔逊博士，格洛斯特郡大学教授。凯伦·罗斯，英国利物浦大学萨迪·韦林，英国伦敦经济学院朱莉娅·哈勒姆博士，英国利物浦大学国际会议：跨文化：妇女、老龄化和媒体/协调员罗斯·詹宁斯博士，格洛斯特郡大学博士。Kate Omenugha，Awka University，Awka，AwiaProf. Stella Chinyere Okunna，Awka大学，Awka，AwiaProf。Kathleen Woodward，华盛顿大学，USADR。梁丽菁，香港城市大学博士。陈顺兴，香港岭南大学，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校Vivian Sobchack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.