I am starting my second semester as Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. This term we are co-hosting a panel discussion and viewings of the award winning film “Miss Representation,” hosting a knowledge lab workshop series on the Occupy movements, and organizing talks by sociologist Lisa Adkins, philosopher Karen Houle and others. To find out more about our Events, click here to be directed to the IGSF’s Events page. The term is also commencing with an invited lecture at Carleton University on the case construction of bystanding around the Kitty Genovese murder. Research on my book on the case continues — I’ve scheduled the first of several interviews I hope to complete this spring with major figures in the field of social psychology and have planned a trip to NYC to complete research at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts. I will be attending the SCMS conference 21-25 March in Boston. I am not teaching this term, which means more time for research and writing!!
William Dawson Scholar of Feminist Media Studies, McGill University
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I teach Communication Studies and Women's Studies at McGill University. I do research in feminist media studies, political theory, and cultural studies of journalism, crime and violence.
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Upcoming and Recent Talks
- 22 March 2012, “Gender Violence, the Problem of Bystanding and the Covert Seeing Eye of Intervention” Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA.
- 20 January 2012, “What Makes a Case? Cultural Legacies of the 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder and the Construction of the Bystander Problem,” Department of Communication Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.
- 6 December 2011, IGSF Esquisses Lecture Series, 12:30pm, Montreal, QC, “What Makes a Case? A Feminist Intervention into the Kitty Genovese Murder and the Construction of the Bystander Problem.”
- 29 November 2011, IPLAI Great Trials Public Talk, Atwater Public Library, 5:30 pm, Montreal, QC, “The Trial of Winston Moseley.”
- 4-6 November 2011, Canadian Cultural Studies Association Conference, Montreal, QC, “A Historical Case of Media Witnessing: The 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder.”
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