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Gender and Communication: Representation, voice and empowerment in and through media, film and information and communication technologies (ICTs)
This conference focuses on the nexus of gender and communication, and the gendered aspects of communication. Our understandings of sex and gender, and our gendered identities, are communicated, mediated and performed in different ways, and through different types of media and communication tools, ranging from school textbooks, mass media, popular culture and film, to social media and the Internet.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Cai Yiping, Executive Committee member of Develop Alternatives with Women for a New
Era (DAWN) and member of UNWomen Asia Pacific Civil Society Advisory Group.
Professor Raewyn Connell, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney.
Professor Monica Djerf-Pierre, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication,
Gothenburg University.
Professor Sunera Thobani, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, The
University of British Columbia.

Organisers/hosts: The Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund
University, Lund
Series convenors: The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), the University of
Copenhagen and the Nordic Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
Organizing committee: Bu Wei (CASS), Marina Svensson (Lund University), Cecilia
Milwertz (NIAS), Barbara Schulte (Lund University).
Organizer: The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), the University of
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22.09.2014 - 23.09.2014
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Beijing, China