Event

IGDS hosts Special Lunchtime Seminar on Women and Media

Event Date(s): 17/11/2009

Location: IGDS Seminar Room


Professor Vincent Gerald Porfirio, Assistant Dean of Students, English Faculty of The Sage Colleges, Sage College of Albany, Albany New York, will present a seminar titled "Women and Media: Gender, Consumerism, & Marketing."This event is being hosted by The Institute of Gender & Development Studies and will take place on November 17th, 2009, at 12 noon in the IGDS Seminar Room.

Professor Porfirios' seminar will be based on research undertaken in South Africa on the ways in which women utilize and negotiate branded images within a highly consumerist society. The presentation uses different mediums, including film, to explore the gendered nature of this interface and to explore the differences of experience within such a society for different groups of women.  

Open to: | Staff | Student |


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