Final Programme
Thursday 15 September 2022
9.00 -10.45 Registration – 1 Sofokleous str. – (registration continues through the day for those arriving later)
Participants whose surnames start from A-L, please go to Room 101 on the 1st Floor
Participants whose surnames start from M - Z, please go to Room 111 on the 1st Floor
Coffee 2nd Floor Lobby
10.45- 10.50 Walk around the corner to Ampitheatre Angelopoulou
10.50 - 11.00 Brief hello (by Liza Tsaliki and by the new Head of Dept Professor Elli Philokyprou) and Conference Kick-start
11.-12.30
Session 1 (3 papers X20’+10’Q+A) - Ampitheatre Angelopoulou, 111 Aristidou str.
Celebrity culture
Chair: Liza Tsaliki
#33 Troubled Stars and Queens of Re- Invention: Intimacy, ordinariness, and self- transformation in the celebrity health narratives of Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez-
Fredrika Thelandersson
#21 America, Masculinity, and Postfeminism in the Audiovisual Works of Lana del Rey-
Nathalie Weidhase
#22 Losing Cruise Control: Disenchantment of Tom Cruise’s Star Image in Eyes Wide Shut.- Defne Tüzün
12.30-13.30 Lunch - 1 Sofokleous str. - 2nd Floor Lobby
13.30-15.00
Session 2 (2 papersX20’+10’ Q+A)- Room 302, 1 Sofokleous str
Digital intimacy
Chair: Olga Derzioti
#14 Single motherhood and digital intimate publics – Mapping mediated spaces and practices online- Irida Ntalla
#55 “Send Nudes?”: a sex-positive approach to adolescent digital expressions of sexuality - Giselle Woodley and Carmen Jacques
Parallel session 3 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A) – Room 102- 1 Sofokleous str.
Violence online
Chair: Labrini Papadopoulou
#26 Implementing Digital Sexual Violence Workshops for Under-18s during the COVID- 19 Pandemic in England and Ireland- Debbie Ging and Jessica Ringrose
#18 The rise of hate journalism: toxic masculinity, misogyny and homophobia in Greek far right media- Eugenia Siapera and Lambrini Papadopoulou
#27 ConCel: Mapping the Dynamics and Online Spread of Incel Ideology - Debbie Ging, Lewys Brace, Stephanie Baele
#50 Perceptions of hate speech in Greece and Cyprus: How journalism students, young journalists “citizen journalists” and NGO representatives discuss the phenomenon - Despina Cochliou, Stamatis Poulakidakos, Marina Rigou, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
15.00- 15.30 Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Lobby
15.30-17.00
Session 4 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A) – Room 302- 1 Sofokleous str.
Social media
Chair: Giselle Woodley
#13 Stay-at-home fathers' masculinity on Chinese social media - Fei Huang
#24 Parenting, Privacy and Commodification: Celebrity Sharenting on Instagram - Francisca Porfírio
#39 Popular Personas, Alternative Motherhoods: Instamoms in Turkey - Emel Uzun Avci*, Burcu Şenel Alpuğan
#41 I am Woman: Trending TikToks and Intersecting Gender Expressions - Alicen Rushevics
Parallel session 5 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A) –Room 102, 1 Sofokleous str.
Femininity- gender politics
Chair: Despina Chronaki
#8 The Construction of Obedient Ultra- Orthodox Femininity in Religious Digital Enclaved Media: Anatomy of a Backlash. -
Malki Poryes and Dana Kaplan
#11 Alternate femininities & masculinities in subcultural music: Gender, sexuality, and digital culture in Palestine - Polly Withers
#35 Femo-nationalism, racial capitalism and intersectional contradictions: representations of racialised sexual difference in the UK and Germany - Christy Kulz and Naaz Rashid
#2 Evolution of heteronormativity and gender stereotypes through an analysis of the most popular music videos in Spain. - Priscila Alvarez-Cueva,Figueras-Maz, Mònica; Medina-Bravo, Pilar (Not attending with physical presence - - please click on the paper title to watch the presentation) )
20.00 Dinner at Kiouzin, 16 Lykavitou str. Kolonaki
Friday 16 September 2022
9.30-12.30
Keynotes Round Table (4X35min+ Q+A) - Antonis Tritsis lecture theatre- Municipality of Athens , 50 Akadimias str.
Roundtable Moderator: Professor Liza Tsaliki
Professor Sarah Banet Weiser: Grifting Femininity: Religion, Marketing and the Con-juncture
Professor Rosalind Gill: Being watched and feeling judged on social media
Professor Sean Redmond: The loneliness room: lonely masculinity in contemporary film
Professor Brenda Weber: The Tangled Grey Web: Mediated Discourses of Authenticity, Empowerment and Embodiment
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break- 1 Sofokleous str. - 2nd Floor Lobby
14.00-15.30
Session 6 (3 papersX20’+10’Q+A)- Room 302, 1 Sofokleous str.
Masculinities part I
Chair: Sean Redmond
#42 Redpilling as microfascism: the archaic roots of emergent patriarchal knowledge and action- Jack Z. Bratich
#48 ‘We’re not misogynistic c*nts…’: theorising the homosocial dynamics of men’s private online chat groups and their defensive talk about ‘lad culture’ in the UK - Craig Haslop & Fiona O’Rourke
#1 Exploring toxic gaming masculinity through Girlfriend Reviews YouTube Channel- Neta Yodovich, Jinju Kim
Parallel session 7 (3 papersX20’+10’Q+A)- Room 102, 1 Sofokleous str.
Beauty culture
Chair: Eugenia Siapera
#43 Love and Cancellation: The Queer Beauty Community on YouTube- Misha Kavka
# 44 The Portrayal of an Emancipated Woman in Perfume Commercial - Viktorija Car and Lana Gajger
#12 Social Media and Otherness: The case study of the beauty community “Live Tinted”- Iphigenia Tepetidi and Angeliki Gazi
15.30- 16.00 Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Lobby
16.00- 17.30
Session 8 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A)- Room 302, 1 Sofokleous str.
Femininities and masculinities in popular media -part I
Chair: Despina Chronaki
#16 “They Were Too Fragile”: Questioning Femininities and Resilience in Russian Doll-
Sarah Lahm
#17 From Male Tears to Women’s Shopping Carts: Grooming Neoliberal Female Consumers through Depictions of Masculinity in Crisis in Men’s,Grooming Ads- Kai Prins
#40 Traditional values discourse and representations of women and LGBT+ individuals in the pro-Kremlin media-
Valentyna Shapovalova
#20 Femininities within Greek celebrity culture- Myrto Tsiaktsira
Parallel session 9 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A)- Room 102, 1 Sofokleous str.
Femininities and masculinities in popular media -part II
Chair: Labrini Papadopoulou
#30 Queer turns in middle age: the solution to Hollywood’s post-40 syndrome? - Esme Fransen
#47 Aging femininities in popular streaming TV series: Grace & Frankie, The Politician, And Just Like That. - Dimitra Mari
#15 A short history of femininities in Greece made of popular television series- Aleka Stamatiadi
#59"Well, spit it out!": Double discrimination in a televised case study of a woman who stutters Sigal Barak-Brandes, Debora Freud
Parallel Session 10 (4 papers X 20’ + 10’ Q&A) – Room 111, 1 Sofokleous str.
Masculinities – part II
Chair: Liza Tsaliki
#53 Two Greek-Australian Men - Author and Journalist – talk about Migrant Masculinity in Contemporary Australia- Fotis, Kapetopoulos
#56 “The promise of hair. New practices and visualizations of masculinity through the use and broadcasting of beard enhancing products on YouTube. Tobias Raun
#57 Contesting Masculinities Play for Keeps Via “Meme” Stocks: An Analysis of Gendered Affects and Neoliberal Subjectivities within Contemporary Casino Capitalism - Rory Barron
#34 Acceptance within the binary? Social media and gender fluidity in Norway - Luise Salte
20.00 Rozalia, 59 Valtetsiou str. Exarchia
Saturday 17 September 2022
9.30-11.00
Session 11 (3 papersX20’+10’Q+A) Room 302, 1 Sofokleous str.
Children-youth culture
Chair: Giselle Woodley
#19 Contemporary Children’s Biographies: How are children responding to ‘empowering’ stories of ‘inspirational’ women? - Louise Couceiro
#32 A Girls' Eye-view. Exploring girlhood media representations through the lens of Italian female adolescence - Romana Andò, Leonardo Campagna
#58 Investigating representations of the body within the context of collaborative virtual environment for higher education - Maria Sounti, Penny Papageorgopoulou, Dimitris Charitos
Parallel session 12 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A)Room 102, 1 Sofokelous str.
Femininities and masculinities in popular media -part III
Chair: Despina Chronaki
#4 Portrayals of the shero -Ana-Nzinga Weiß
# 37 Aging Male Melodrama and the Post- Soviet Generational Conflict - Teet Teinemaa
#46 Safe Ambivalences and Privileged Resistance in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: New Gendered Subjectivities amidst Cultural Unrest in India - Niharika Krishna
#51 Confidence culture’ and ‘resilience’ in Greek popular culture - Liza Tsaliki
#45 Memory and identity in contemporary cinema directed by women, Two first-person works by Mercedes Moncada and Lupe Pérez -
Esther Pérez Nieto (Not attending with physical presence - please click on the paper title to watch the presentation)
11-11.30 Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Lobby
11.30-1.00
Session 13 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A) Room 302, 1 Sofokleous str.
Politics-Gender-Media
Chair: Sean Redmond
#29 ‘Yes, You Are a Misogynist’: Building Feminist Consciousness through Digital Critical Pedagogy- Eugenia Siapera and Dimitra Mitka
#3 The Intersection of Politics, Gender and Media: Female Politicians in Popular Israeli Women’s Magazines - Einat Lachover
#7 VermelhoEmBelem: Conflicted femininities in the context of a Portuguese feminist hashtag campaign - Sofia P. Caldeira and Ana Flora Machado
#36 Beam_me_up_Softboi – collective subjectivities and emotional masculinities in online spaces- Poppy Wilde
Parallel session 14 (4 papersX20’+10’Q+A) Room 102, 1 Sofokleous str.
Queer identities- part I
Chair: Eugenia Siapera
#5 Female Masculinity and Transgressive Temporality: How Orange is the New Black Recontextualizes Prisoner Agency - Jaspreet K.
Nijjar
#10 Gendered Machines in Film and Television: How ‘Post-’ Femininities and Masculinities Challenge the Gender Binary -
Katerina Papakyriakopoulou
#23 “Sky-High, Matte Black Faux Snakeskin Heals”: Construction of Femininity through Clothing in Jacob Tobia’s Sissy - KAROLÍNA ZLÁMALOVÁ
#9 Representations of Queer Parenthood on Greek Tv Series - Stefanos Kelekidis
1.00-2.00 Lunch - 2nd Floor Lobby
2.00- 3.30
Session 15 (3 papersX20’+10’Q+A) Room 302, 1 Sofokleous str.
Queer identities- part II
Chair: Liza Tsaliki
#38 Glory: Deconstructing the Older Gay Man in Contemporary Spanish Cinema- Josep M.
Amengol
# 49 Destigmatizing Kinks: Alien Erotica in Netflix’s Sex Education - Olga Derzioti
#6 Emergent remediations of gender on Spotify’s Lorem playlist -Veronika Muchitsch
3.30-4.00 - Wrap up and Coffee - 2nd Floor Lobby