“Let's Hear It For The Girls”: Girlhood, Media and Popular Culture, 1990-present Saturday 12th March 2016 Provisional Programme Registration and Refreshments 09:15 – Humanities Corridor, Ground Floor, Humanities 09:50 09:50 – Opening Remarks 10:00 H0.52 Opening Keynote: Prof. Carol Dyhouse (University of Sussex) “The Troublesome History of Girls” 10:00 – H0.52 11:00 Chair: Catherine Lester 11:00 – Refreshment Break 11:15 Humanities Corridor Parallel Panels 1A - Exploring Sexuality 1B - Class and Politics: Discourses of Girlhood H0.52 H0.60 Chair: Zoë Shacklock Chair: Helen Wheatley Georgina Newton (Bournemouth University) Krystina Osborne (Liverpool John Moores “Constructing working-class girls”: An University) investigation into working class girls, media The Legacy of the Masturbating Girl consumption and how they negotiate their identity 11:15 – Emily Roach (University of York) Helen Wood (University of Leicester) 12:50 “Just because it's better now doesn't mean The Magalluf Girl: Public sex, viral attitudes that it's always good” - Queer identity in and the class relations of social contagion contemporary YA literature Ásta Jóhannsdóttir (University of Iceland) Molly Geidel (University of Manchester) Postfeminist moments: the sexuality of young Building the Counterinsurgent Girl: Gender Icelandic women and Education in the War on Terror Charlotte Riley (University of Southampton) Claire Hennessy (Independent) Because I am a Girl: Girlhood and the All Girls Find Out: Rape Culture In Young Adult Discourse of Aid and Development in Britain Fiction, 2013-16 since the 1990s 12:50 – Lunch 13:50 Humanities Corridor
“Let's Hear It For The Girls”: Girlhood, Media and Popular Culture, 1990-present Saturday 12th March 2016 Provisional Programme 09:15 – 09:50 Registration and Refreshments Humanities Corridor, Ground Floor, Humanities 09:50 – 10:00 Opening Remarks H0.52 10:00 – 11:00 Opening Keynote: Prof. Carol Dyhouse (University of Sussex) “The Troublesome History of Girls” H0.52 Chair: Catherine Lester 11:00 – 11:15 Refreshment Break Humanities Corridor 11:15 – 12:50 Parallel Panels 1A - Exploring Sexuality H0.52 Chair: Zoë Shacklock 1B - Class and Politics: Discourses of Girlhood H0.60 Chair: Helen Wheatley Krystina Osborne (Liverpool John Moores University) The Legacy of the Masturbating Girl Georgina Newton (Bournemouth University) “Constructing working-class girls”: An investigation into working class girls, media consumption and how they negotiate their identity Emily Roach (University of York) “Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good” - Queer identity in contemporary YA literature Helen Wood (University of Leicester) The Magalluf Girl: Public sex, viral attitudes and the class relations of social contagion Ásta Jóhannsdóttir (University of Iceland) Postfeminist moments: the sexuality of young Icelandic women Molly Geidel (University of Manchester) Building the Counterinsurgent Girl: Gender and Education in the War on Terror Claire Hennessy (Independent) All Girls Find Out: Rape Culture In Young Adult Fiction, 2013-16 Charlotte Riley (University of Southampton) Because I am a Girl: Girlhood and the Discourse of Aid and Development in Britain since the 1990s 12:50 – 13:50 Lunch Humanities Corridor