Events

Feminist Scholarship Division Chair
International Communication Association
Location: Paris, France
Date: May 2022

Visiting Professor
American University Paris
Location: Paris, France
Date: Summer 2022

“Investigating Feminism and Media” 
This talk will address methodological issues engaged in my forthcoming book Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism.
Venue: Education, University College London.

Date: March 12, 2019

“Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism”
This talk engaged issues of Feminism and Media addressed in my forthcoming book. It took place on a forum at the London School of Economics jointly with Rosalind Gill (City University of London) and Jessica Ringrose (UCL).
Venue: London School of Economics
Date: March 14, 2019

“Sexual Harassment: What Can We Do?” 
At this forum held at the University of Virginia in October, 2018 I participated in a panel discussion of how universities can combat sexual harassment as we go forward. My remarks were entitled “Sexual Harassment: Law, Procedure, Future.”
Venue: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: October 2018

“Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: Contemporary U.S. Media and the Portrayal of Feminism” 
At the “#MeToo and Epistemic Injustice” conference held in October, 2018 at CUNY, I delivered a talk based on my forthcoming book with Francesca Tripodi, “Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: Contemporary U.S. Media and the Portrayal of Feminism.”
Venue: CUNY
Location: New York City, NY
Date: October 2018

“Sex, Class and Trash: The Gold-Diggers of Classical Hollywood Cinema.”
Presented and co-organized the “Media and Class” panel at the May, 2018 Meetings of the International Communication Association.
Location: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Date: May 2018

Feminism After Trump
I am thrilled to have hosted a panel at the University of Virginia entitled “Feminism After Trump.”  Speakers included Tressie McMillan Cottom (Virginia Commonwealth University), Liza Featherstone (NYU), and Arlene Stein (Rutgers University, New Jersey).  The panel was held in April 2018.  I was privileged to comment on these esteemed scholars’ presentations: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Liza Featherstone, Arlene Stein
Event: Feminism After Trump
Venue: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: April 2018

Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: Contemporary U.S. Media and the Unseen Rejection of Feminism.
Talk delivered January 18, 2018 in the UCLA Anthropology series Culture, Power, and Social Change (CPSC).
Date: January 2018

ASA 2017: Sessions Chaired and Organized
Thematic Session Chair:  “How Media Shape Group Boundaries”
Session Organizer:  “Gender, Culture, Media”
Event: American Sociological Association Conference, 2017
Venue: Westin Montreal
Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: August 2017

“How Media Shape Group Boundaries.”
Chair for Thematic Session, 2017 American Sociological Association Meetings.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: May 2017

“Media, Gender, Culture.”
Session Organizer, Sociology of Culture Section, 2017 American Sociological Association Meetings.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: May 2017

“Reflecting on POPCORN VENUS and Early Feminist Film Criticism with Marjorie Rosen”
I chaired and commented on this panel at the March, 2017 Meeting of the Society for Cinema Studies in Chicago, IL.  Such a privilege to discuss feminist criticism with Marjorie Rosen, Maya Montanez Smuckler, Diane Waldman, and Pamela Wojcik.
Event: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Venue: Fairmont Chicago Hotel
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: March 11, 2017

“Media Sociology” and “Gender and Media Sociology”
I will be presiding over two regular sessions that I have organized on Media Sociology.
Event: American Sociological Association
Venue: Sheraton Seattle Hotel
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: 08/20/2016

“The Life and Intellectual Legacy of Professor Tamar Liebes”
Tamar Liebes, Sonia Livingstone, Andrea Press, and daughters.
Panel chair and presenter, co-organized with Professor Sonia Livingstone, LSE.
Event: International Communication Association, Featured Panel
Venue: Fukuoka Hilton
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Date: 06/05/2016

Is there a Feminist Habitus? FemiNEXTing and Media-Ready Feminism
This paper, co-authored with Francesca Tripodi, applies Bourdieu’s sociology to the study of media’s influence on feminist issues.
Event: International Communication Association
Venue: Fukuoka Hilton
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Date: 06/05/2016

Sex, Class and Trash: The Gold-Diggers and Femme Fatales of Postwar Hollywood
Event: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Venue: SCMS
Location: Atlanta, GA
Date: March, 2016

Straight Talk Radio Interview with Host Andre Hakes
Event: Radio Interview
Venue: WVPC 94.7
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: January 16, 2016

The Heritage of Professor Tamar Liebes
Current research in Comparative Media Audiences.
Guest Speakers: Professor Laura Grindstaff, University of California at Davis; Professor Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania; Professor Peter Lunt, University of Leicester and Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Event: Forum Sponsored by the Department of Media Studies, UVA
Venue: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: November 5, 2015

Yelling and Whispering: Online Anonymous Speech and the Privileging of Opinion
Yale University, Calhoun College Master’s Tea
Event: Master's Tea
Venue: Yale University, Calhoun College
Location: New Haven, CT
Date: September 15, 2015 4:00 p.m.

Who Talks and Who Listens in Online Media?
Center for Comparative Research Workshop, Yale University
Event: Comparative Research Workshop
Venue: Fellows Lounge Calhoun College -Ground Floor, Entryway D, Courtyard
Location: New Haven, CT
Date: September 15, 2015 12:00 - 1:20 p.m.

“Fighting Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault on Campus:  Then and Now.”
“Sex, Harassment, and Third-Wave Feminism:  Legislating the Intimate.”
American Sociological Association Thematic Panel
Venue: Meetings of the American Sociological Association
Location: Chicago, IL.
Date: August 2015

New Class Visibilities: Data from the U.S. Case
Lecture invited by the Department of Media and Communication
Venue: University of Leicester
Location: Leicester, England
Date: June 2015

The Classed “Gaze” of New Media: A Comparison of Sexism, Homophobia, and Redemption in Contrasting New Media Platforms.
Event: Meetings of the Console-ing Passions Conference
Location: Dublin, Ireland.
Date: June, 2015

A Much Anticipated Release: Exploring Reactions to Fifty Shades on Film
Panel Discussant
Event: Meetings of the International Communication Association Conference
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date: May 2015

The Gendered Spaces of Online Communication
Lecture invited by the Department of Media and Communication
Venue: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Date: February, 2015

Introducing “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
Guest Speaker
Event: Virginia Film Festival
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: November 2014

Sex, Class and Trash
Paper presented with Marjorie Rosen.
Event: Meetings of the Film and History Conference
Location: Madison, WI
Date: November, 2014

Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment (WOASH) Reunion
Venue: American Sociological Association
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: August, 2014

Mentoring Panel
Adviser
Venue: Console-ing Passions Conference
Location: Columbia, MO
Date: April, 2014

Introducing “Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines”
Guest Speaker
Event: Virginia Film Festival
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: November, 2013

Mapping the Emerging Field of Media Sociology
Keynote Round-table Participant
Event: Media Sociology Pre-Conference
Venue: New York University
Location: New York, NY
Date: August, 2013

Fractured Feminism:  Social Class and the Feminism Debates
Lecture invited by the Department of Media and Communications
Venue: Goldsmith’s University
Location: London, England
Date: June, 2013

Gender Myths in Participatory Culture
Invited keynote plenary panelist
Event: Console-ing Passions Conference
Venue: De Montfort University
Location: England
Date: June 2013

Feminist Television Studies in the Last Decade
Invited plenary panelist
Venue: Feminist Television Conference
Location: University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Date: May, 2013

Feminism LOL:  Media Culture and ‘Feminism on the Ground’ in a Postfeminist Age
Talk invited by the International Gender Studies Institute
Venue: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Date: May, 2013

Women and Film
Flash seminar, invited by the University of Virginia students
Venue: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: April, 2013.

Miss Representation
Invited presenter and facilitator
Event: Women and Public Policy Conference
Venue: Batten School, University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: April, 2013

Relationships and the Media
Keynote lecture
Event: Teens Take Action Organization
Venue: Planned Parenthood
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: March 2013

Invited Panelist
Event: French Film Festival
Venue: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: January 2013

Feminism 2.0:  Feminism, Fragmentation and Social Polarization in the New Media Environment
Colloquium delivered to the Department of Communication
Venue: Hebrew University
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Date: January, 2013.

FEMINISM LOL:  Media Culture and ‘Feminism on the Ground’ in the Case of JERSEY SHORE and Its Audience.
Paper invited for the Hebrew University 
Event: Conference on Communicating Conflict and Consent
Venue: Hebrew University
Location: Jerusalem, Isreal
Date: January, 2013.

Feminism LOL:  Media Culture and ‘Feminism on the Ground’ in a Postfeminist Age.”
Lecture invited by Beijing Language and Culture University
Venue: Beijing Language and Culture University
Location: Beijing, China
Date: September 2012.

Feminism LOL:  Viewers Discuss the “Sluts” of the Jersey Shore
Invited by Department of Communication and Media Studies
Venue: Fordham University
Location: New York, NY
Date: February, 2012

Body Image, Eating Disorders, and the Mass Media
Invited by the American Association of University Women
Location: Charlottesville, VA,
Date: October, 2011

Changing the Way We See Women
Invited by the Rise Campaign
Venue: Darden School, University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA. 
Date: September, 2011

Jersey Shore and the Image of the Slut
Invited by the Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.
Venue: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: September, 2011

Gender and Class in the Age of Reality Television:  College-Aged Women Watch Jersey Shore
Talk invited by Department of English
Venue: University of Tulsa
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Date: March, 2011

Gender and Media: Current Developments in Hollywood
Panel presentation invited by the Virginia Film Festival
Event: Virginia Film Festival
Date: November, 2009

Reproductive Choices, History, and Hollywood
Lecture invited by Students United for Reproductive Freedom
Venue: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Date: April, 2009

LincolnFest 2009
Featured guest 
Event: Abraham Lincoln Film Festival
Venue: Virginia Theater
Location: Champaign, IL
Date: March, 2009

Feminism? That’s So Seventies! Girls and Young Women Discuss Femininity and Feminism in Life and Television
Lecture invited for Department of Communication Studies 
Venue: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, IL
Date: November, 2008

Television and the Missing Feminist Revolution
Elihu Katz and Paddy Scannell, organizers
Event: “The End of Television” Conference
Venue: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: February, 2007

Where Would Jesus Shop?  The Authority of Media Culture and the Selling of Conservatism
(Press and Moore, 2006). 
Event: Sociology Department Speaker Series
Venue:  Yale University
Location: New Haven, CT
Date: November, 2006

Where Would Jesus Shop?  The Relationship between Politics and the Use of Popular Culture in American Evangelical Churches
(Press and Moore, 2006).  Lecture invited for the Sociology Department and Media Studies Program.
Venue: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: March, 2006

Religion, Politics, and the Psychology of Media and Politics
(Press and Moore, 2006)
Event: Symposium on the Social Psychology of the Internet
Venue: University of Bath
Location: United Kingdom
Date: January, 2006

Digital Divide? Young Women, the Internet, and Inequality
Lecture invited by Women’s Studies Program and Sociology Department
Venue: University of New Hampshire
Location: Durham, New Hampshire
Date: November, 2005

The Political Dimensions of Internet Use: Challenging the Public/Private Distinction
Event: Conference in Reception Theory
Venue: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Date: September, 2005

What Digital Technologies Mean for Public Life
Keynote speech invited for featured panel
Event: Meetings of the American Sociological Association
Date: August, 2005

Public Life, Teens, and New Technologies
Invited Speaker
Event: week-in-residence
Venue: University of Manchester
Date: May 2005

Girls Talk Internet
Invited Speaker
Program in Film and Media Studies and American Culture
Event: Media Studies Lecture Series
Venue: Washington University
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: April, 2004

Teens Online: Tracing the Everyday Nature of the Digital Divide
Invited Speaker
Event: Colloquium Series
Venue: University of Maryland, Department of Communication
Location: College Park, Maryland
Date: April, 2004

Ethnographies of the Audience
Colloquium speaker, invited by the Department of Communication
Venue: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Date: January, 2004

Teens Online: Styles of Internet Use, Social Class Location and Social Mobility
Presentation invited by the Media Group
Venue: London School of Economics
Location: London, England
Date: December 2002

Methodological Considerations in Ethnographic Study of the Media
Presentation invited by the Doctoral Research Seminar, Media Group
Venue: London School of Economics
Location: London, England
Date: November, 2002

Film Theory and the Construction of the ‘Spectator’ in Audience Research
Lecture invited by the Audience Seminar, Media Group
Venue: London School of Economics
Date: November, 2002

Panel on “Dennis Cleveland,”
Chair of KCPA Panel on “Dennis Cleveland,” an opera by Mikel Rouse
Venue: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois
Location: Urbana, IL
Date: April, 2001

“Speaking of Abortion”
Invited presentation to the Seminar on Politics, Race and Gender
Venue: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: April 2000

“Televising Abortion: Audience Methodology.”
Talk delivered to postgraduate seminar
Venue: Goldsmith’s College
Location: London, England
Date: December 1998

“Televising Abortion: Reflections on Theory and Method.”
Lecture delivered to the Department of Social Psychology and the Gender Institute
Venue: London School of Economics
Location: London, England
Date: November, 1998

“Speaking of Abortion: Television and Women’s Lives.”
Lecture delivered to the Media Research Group
Venue: London School of Economics
Location: London, England
Date: October, 1998

“Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women.”
Lecture delivered to the Communication Department
Venue: University of Haifa
Location: Haifa, Israel
Date: August 1998

“Ethnography and Cultural Studies.”
Talk delivered to PhD seminar, Media Group
Venue: London School of Economics
Location: London, England
Date: December 1998

“What’s Left of Consumer Sovereignty?  Inverting Critiques of Mass Culture”
Comment on paper given by Douglas Holt
Event: UNIT for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Seminar
Date: May, 1998

“Speaking of Abortion: Television and the Discourses of Authority.”
Lecture delivered
Event: Department of Sociology Speakers’ Series
Venue: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, WI
Date: March 1998

“From Media Effects to Media Uses and Media Reception.” 
Comment delivered at the International Symposium on “The Media and the Public: Rethinking the Part Played By People in the Flow of Mass Communication” (in honor of Elihu Katz).
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Date: May 1996

“Television and the Political Culture of Abortion.” 
Presentation to the Department of Communication, School of Journalism
Venue: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, MO
Date: March, 1996

“Faith Meets Fact:  Television and the Political Culture of Abortion.” 
Keynote Speech for Women’s History Month.
Event: Women’s Studies Lecture Series
Venue: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, MO
Date: March, 1996

“Speaking of Abortion.”
Paper invited for the UNIT for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Seminar
Venue: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Urbana, Il
Date: February, 1996

“What Can We Hear After Postmodernism?  The Growing Gulf Between Cultural Studies and Feminist Research”
(with Linda Blum). Paper invited,
Event: Conference: “Across Disciplines and Beyond Boundaries:  Tracking American Cultural Studies,” 
Venue: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Urbana, Il
Date: November, 1995

“Social Class and the Representation of Abortion on Prime-Time Television.” 
Lecture co-sponsored by Sociology, Communication, and Women’s Studies Programs
Venue: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, IL
Date: February, 1994

“Abortion and Television:  A Critical Theoretical Perspective.” 
Lecture invited
Event: Annual Women’s Studies Lecture Series
Venue: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, PA
Date: January, 1994

“Contested Terrain:  Ideologies of Work and Family in Relocated Japanese and Americans.” 
Lecture invited by the Center for Japanese Studies
Venue: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: March, 1993

“Their Own Medicine:  Pro-Life Women Discuss Media, Science, and the Abortion Debate.”
Lecture invited by the Culture and Society Workshop
Venue: University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, Il
Date: January, 1993

“The Experience of Sexual Harassment:  Lessons for Feminist Theory from the American Experience.”
Lecture invited
Venue: International Christian University
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: June, 1992

“Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace:  Definitions and Trends.” 
Lecture invited
Venue: Japan Productivity Center
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: May, 1992

“The Japanese Corporate Family:  Lessons from Comparative Research.”
Lectured invited
Venue: Tokyo University
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: May, 1992

“Politics, Gender, and Social Science.” 
Participant in panel discussion organized by the CRSO (Center for Research on Social Organization) Group of the Sociology Department
Venue: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: April 1992

“The Impact of Changes in the Japanese Family Following Relocation on Japanese Management Style.” 
Lecture invited by the Center for International Business Education
Venue: The University of Michigan,
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: March, 1992

“Working-Class Women Respond to Middle-Class Images of Choice.” 
Brown-bag seminar jointly sponsored by the Center for Research on Social Organization and the Social Psychology Lecture Series
Venue: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: November, 1991

“Women Reproducing Culture:  Changes in the Japanese Family Following Relocation to the United States.”
Lecture delivered to the Faculty of Economics
Venue: Tokyo University
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: December, 1990

“Class Differences in Women’s Responses to Television.”
Lecture delivered to the Anthropology Department
Venue: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: April, 1990

“Women Watching Television:  Class Perceptions and Perceptions of Class.”
Lecture invited by the Departments of Sociology and Communication
Venue: University of Massachusetts
Location: Amherst, MA
Date: March, 1990

“Women Watching Television:  Images and Responses.”
Lecture invited by the Women’s Studies Group
Venue: University of Michigan
Location: Flint, Michigan
Date: March, 1990

“Deconstructing the Audience:  Women Talk about Television.” 
Brown-bag seminar offered in the Social Psychology Lecture Series,
Venue: The University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: February, 1990

“The Impact of British Cultural Studies on American Communication Research.”
Lecture presented at the Center for West European Studies
Venue: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: April, 1989

“Social Class Bias in the Professional Practice of Psychotherapy.” 
Lecture delivered to the Department of Behavioral Science
Venue: University of Kentucky, College of Medicine
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Date: April, 1988

“Feminist Theory and Critical Theory:  The Psychoanalytic Dialogue.”
Lecture sponsored by the Department of Sociology
Venue: University of Kentucky
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Date: November, 1987