Article Archive for July 2012
On Leaving Academia
Post worth reading about author’s decision to leave tenured position.
Top of the list: family-life balance.
Assistant Professor, Sexuality Studies
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington
University in St. Louis seeks to hire an Assistant Professor on the
tenure track with a research focus in Sexuality Studies. We strongly
encourage applications from scholars developing a strong research
profile in any area of sexuality studies, and we are particularly
interested in candidates who …
Inaugural Issue of Frames Now Online
Check out the inaugural issue of the new Cinema Studies journal, Frames, featuring a piece by FemTechNet co-founder Alexandra Juhasz.
Fembot Happy Hour Boston
Hope to see some of you at Fembot Happy Hour tonight, 6-8 pm, at Silvertone in Boston!
AdaCamp DC 2012
The second AdaCamp wrapped up in Washington, DC on Wednesday, July 11th. The first AdaCamp was held in Melbourne, Australia in January 2012. AdaCamp is an Ada Initiative unconference focused on increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture. The invitation-only event gathered professionals, fans, hobbyists, academics, and activists to …
Feminism, Media, and Technology in the News
I have fallen out of my bi-weekly routine due to conference travel, a disruption that will resume for another week after my much-anticipated trip to Boston for Console-ing Passions.
Disclaimer: This list is obviously not all-encompassing. It likely reflects an unconscious bias toward what I find intriguing (in the interest of …
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, New Zealand
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Media Studies 2012 (A191-12Z)
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
An exciting opportunity to join an established and growing Media Studies programme in New Zealand’s capital city.
Location: Kelburn Campus
Term of Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 15 August 2012
The School of English, Film, Theatre, …
Fembot Happy Hour in Paris!
Last Thursday, a group of Fembot folks met up at Les Pipos in Paris after attending a day of sessions at Crossroads. We got to have dinner and drinks with some Fembots new and old — am hoping some of you will weigh in on the blog. It’s funny how …
Feminists Work – Mél Hogan
We are co-authoring a paper on the role of feminism(s) within contemporary academia, with a focus on Canadian and American contexts. This paper will be reviewed for the anthology: Invisible and Irrelevant? Contemporary Feminism and its Discontents (Palgrave Macmillan).
In general terms, our intent is to deconstruct the notion of ‘feminist …
Feminism, Media and Technology in the News
Bi-weekly listing of some recent articles/blogs related to feminism, media, and technology. Disclaimer: This list is obviously not all-encompassing. It likely reflects an unconscious bias toward what I find intriguing (in the interest of self-reflexivity). If you come across something YOU find interesting that you’d like me to include in …
