PROGRAM / PROGRAMACIÓN
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FRIDAY, 16 APRIL 2010
11-13:00: Registration (Padre Rubio Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.34)
13:00-13:10: Introduction to the Conference and Campus (Aula 8, Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Father Frank Reale, SJ, Rector, Saint Louis University-Madrid
Laurie Beth Mazzuca, Chair (Business & Social Sciences), Saint Louis University-Madrid
Introduction of Keynote Speaker (Aula 8, Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Brian M. Goss, Saint Louis University-Madrid
13:10: First Plenary Session: Keynote Address (Aula 8, Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Teun van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona: “Discourse, Power and Social Cognition”
14:30: Lunch (Provided in the Cafeteria)
15:45-16:45: Panel No.1 (Aula 16) and Panel No.2 (Aula 8) (Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
17:00-18:15: Panel No.3 (Aula 16) and Panel No.4 (Aula 8)(Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
18:30 - 20:00: Reception ('Vino y queso' served in the courtyard of the conference building)
SATURDAY, 17 APRIL 2010
10:30-11:45: Panel No.5 (Aula 16) and Panel No.6 (Aula 8)(Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
12:00-13:15: Panel No.7 (Aula 16) and Panel No.8 (Aula 8)(Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
13:15-14:45: Lunch (In the Cafeteria)
14:45-16:00: Panel No.9 (Aula 16) and Panel No.10 (Aula 8)(Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
16:15-17:15: Second Plenary Session: Reflections on “Representation Now” (Aula 16 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Erika Polson (Chair), Saint Louis University-Madrid
Verica Rupar, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Ingrid Maria Hoofd, National University of Singapore
Mark Hayward, American University of Paris
Anne Dewey, Saint Louis University - Madrid
COMPOSITION OF PANELS: Friday, 16 April
Panel No.1: Re-Representing: New Theoretical Developments
@15:45 (Aula 16 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Agustín Reyes-Torres (Universitat de València, Spain)
- Marta Nunes da Costa(Universidade do Minho, Portugal): “Political Representation Today”
- Anabela Valente Simões (University of Aveiro, Portugal): “Shoah Representations: Mimesis or Poesis of the Past?”
- Al Martinich (University of Texas at Austin): “Authorization and Representation”
Panel No.2: Confronting Neo-Liberalism
@15:45 (Aula 8 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Knut Roder, Saint Louis University - Madrid
- Michelle T. Helstein (University of Lethbridge, Canada): “Neoliberalism, ‘Neutral’ Public Policy, and a Gendered Politics of Representation”
- Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois at Urbana): “The New Neoliberal Cultural and Economic Dominant: Race and the Re-Organization of Knowledge in Schooling in the New Times of Globalization”
- Mark Hayward (American University of Paris): “Settling Accounts: Confessions and Crisis in Economic Representations”
Panel No.3: The Representational Landscape of Television & Cinema
@17:00 (Aula 16 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Maura M. Tarnoff, Saint Louis University - Madrid
- Brian Michael Goss (Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus): “Rebel Yell: Dogme95’s Politics of Realism in The Celebration (1998)”
- Charo Lacalle, Beatriz Gómez, Manuela Russo, María Luz Sánchez, Lucía Trabajo & Berta Trullàs (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “Televisión, Redes Sociales y Construcción de Identidad”
- Temenuga Trifonova (York University, Canada): “Pensiero Debole: What Is ‘Weak National Cinema’?”
- Yasmin max Sason (University of East London) & Alina Bernstein (College of Managment, Rizhon Le’zion, Israel): “Committed to Social Change? – The Representation of Rape in British and Israeli Soaps”
Panel No.4: Images and Voices of Immigrants in the Media
@17:00 (Aula 8 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Cameron McCarthy, University of Illinois - Urbana
- Isabel Alonso Belmonte (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Anne McCabe (Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus) & Daniel Chornet-Roses (Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus): “Immigrants’ Reported Voices in Peninsular Spanish Broadsheets and Freesheets”
- Lucía Ferreiro Prado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain): “Cultural differences amongst Arabized Berber Moroccans in Spain”
- Alba Valdes Peña (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): “La Representación de la Inmigración en la Prensa Española en Contexto de Crisis”
- Valentina Marinescu (University of Bucharest, Romania): “Representing Ourselves as “Others”: The Case of Romanian Migrants’ Images in Romanian Media”
COMPOSITION OF PANELS: Saturday, 17 April
Panel No.5: Cross-Hatching Gender: Technology, Culture, Religion
@10:30 (Aula 16 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Anne Dewey, Saint Louis University - Madrid
- Ingrid Maria Hoofd (National University of Singapore): “The Simulation of Gender Under Techno-Capitalism: A Case for Revisiting Feminist Representational Strategies”
- Gaetan Clavien (University of Geneva): “Representing Women: Defining Islam?”
- Minerva Ahumada Torres (Northeastern Illinois University, USA): “Performativity, Creativity, Responsibility: Gender Representations at a Juncture”
- Galina Miazhevich (University of Oxford, UK): “Eurovision and Post-Soviet Representations of Sexuality”
Panel No.6: National Journalism, Global MediaScape
@10:30 (Aula 8 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Erika Polson, Saint Louis University - Madrid
- Eyal Zandberg (Netanya Academic College, Israel), Motti Neiger (Netanya Academic College, Israel, and Universidad Complutense, Spain) & Oren Meyers (University of Haifa, Israel): “TV News, Representation and Commemoration: Israeli Newscasts on Holocaust Memorial Day”
- Celia Yuen-sze Tsui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): “Problem of Political Power or Press Freedom? A Study on Hong Kong News Coverage on Urumqi Riot”
- Kristin Comeforo (Berkeley College, New York): “Representing Resistance: The Discourse of CAFTA-DR in Costa Rica”
Panel No.7: Cross-Examining The News
@12:00 (Aula 16 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Brian M. Goss, Saint Louis University - Madrid
- Verica Rupar (Cardiff University, UK): “Investigating Journalism: What Counts as the Best Representation of Reality Today?”
- Bernadette Kester (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): “Limits of Representation: Problems and Consequences of Reporting News from Non-Free Countries”
- Ruth A. Palmer (Columbia University, New York): “In the Funhouse Mirror: News Subjects Respond to Their Media Reflections”
- Motti Neiger (Netanya Academic College, Israel, and Universidad Complutense, Spain),
- Eyal Zandberg (Netanya Academic College, Israel) & Oren Meyers (University of Haifa, Israel): “Representations of Critique: Towards a Conceptualization of Journalistic Criticism.”
Panel No.8: “What’s Up”? The New Media Sublime
@12:00 (Aula 8 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Mark Hayward, American University of Paris
- Adrienne Shaw (University of Pennsylvania): “’Nice When It Happens’: An Audience-Based Approach to the Representation of Marginalized Groups in Video Games”
- Viviana Vignola (University of Bologna & Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane): “(Still) Waiting for Prince Charming? Notes about the Representation of Gender in Literature for Teens”
- Erika Polson (Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus): “A Citizen of the World: Representing the International Self Online”
Panel No.9: Media Empires, Postcolonial Voices
@14:45 (Aula 16 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Fabiola Martínez, Saint Louis University – Madrid
- Sirin Adlbi Sibai (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): “Feminismo, Islam, Colonialidad y Globalización: ‘Rehaciendo’ a las Mujeres en Marruecos”
- Carmen Robertson (University of Regina, Canada): “Faced with the Press: Constructions of Aboriginal Artist Norval”
- Dolores Miralles Alberola (Centro de Estudios Ciudad de la Luz ): “Representations of Indigenous Identities in the Film Avatar”
- Mark Cronlund Anderson (University of Regina, Canada): “Colonial Fraternal Newspaper Twins, Separated at Birth: Pancho Villa and Louis Riel”
Panel No.10: National Identities Embodied in Literature and Mass Media
@14:45 (Aula 8 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Chair: Daniel Chornet-Roses, Saint Louis University - Madrid
- Nejat Ulusay (Ankara University): “National Cinema and Representational Transformation: The Turkish Case”
- Alex Krasznay (Central European University, Budapest): “Representations of National Identity in a Changing World: The Case of Catalan Public Broadcasting”
- Agustín Reyes-Torres (Universitat de València, Spain): “Voices of Change in the New South Africa”
- Beatriz Calvo Peña (Universidad Carlos III, Spain): “Representation, Self-Representation and Identity Formation Among Cuban Bloggers”
Second Plenary Session: Reflections on “Representation Now”
@16:15 (Aula 8 / Padre Arrupe Hall / Avenida del Valle, No.28)
Erika Polson, Chair (Saint Louis University-Madrid)
Verica Rupar (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
Ingrid Maria Hoofd (National University of Singapore)
Mark Hayward (American University of Paris)
Anne Dewey (Saint Louis University - Madrid)
