Programme
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DAY ONE:        Friday 2nd December

8.15am                Registration

9.15am                Welcome Address: Misha Kavka

9.30am                Plenary Address: Brenda Weber Transatlantic Tensions: Tall Poppies in the  

American Field of Dreams and the Gender Politics of Reality Television

10.30am               Morning Tea

11.00am               Panel One: Trans-national Format Adaptation [Chair: Misha Kavka]

1.       Zala Volcic Commercial and Sexualized Nationalism on Serbian Reality TV

2.       Serhat Serter Adopting a Format: The Evaluation of Popular Turkish Reality Program Yemekteyiz (Come Dine With Me) according to Gender Identity and Culture

3.       Hakan Ugurlu Femininity and Masculinity Discourse through Reality TV: Example of Lucky Table

 12.30pm               Lunch

1.30pm                Panel Two: Love and Marriage [Chair: Karen Tice]

1.       Siv Jansson Wedding Dramas: Narratives of 'The Perfect Day' in Reality TV Wedding Shows

2.       Elif Ugurlu Female Discourse in Turkey: Being a Woman in Marriage Television Shows

3.       Melissa Hardie Dangerous Liasons, New Jersey (The Real Housewives of New Jersey)

3.00pm                Afternoon Tea

3.30pm                Panel Three: Stars and Sirens [Chair: Frances Bonner]

1.       Vikrant Kishore Sirens, Coquettes and Vamps: The Sexualized and Eroticised Representation of Women in the Reality Series Bigg Boss

2.       Fuad Al Mannan Status of Women in Reality TV Shows and their Target Audience: From the Cultural Perspective of India Pakistan and Bangladesh

3.       Mauricio Vasconceles TV Telos: The Brazilian Reality Opera

 5.00pm                Wine Reception

NB: Paper titles in bold font indicate Invited Speakers 

 
DAY TWO:         Saturday 3rd December

8.30am                Registration

9.30am                Plenary Address: Tania Lewis Super Girls and Style Queens: Gender, Modernity and 

                            Aspirational Identities on Asian Reality TV

10.30am               Morning Tea 

11.00am               Panel Four: Makeover and Self-Governance [Chair: Brenda Weber]

1.    Karen Tice Upgrading College Men and Women: Reality TV and Enhancement on    

       Campus

2.    Hannah Hamad Fairy Jobmother to the Rescue? Postfeminism and Recessionary

       Cultures of Reality TV

3.    Anthea Taylor Desperate and Dateless TV: Making Over the Single Woman

12.30pm               Lunch

1.30pm                Panel Five: Competing Bodies [Chair: Tania Lewis]

1.    Frances Bonner Gendered Display: How Strictly come Dancing/Dancing with the

        Stars presents a Gendered World

2.    Felicity Perry Kiwis in Couture: New Zealand's Next Top Model and the

       Construction of 'NZ' Femininity

3.       Mark Stewart“You keep singing like that and you will be able to afford the rest of that dress”:  Nascent Sexualisation in the Idol Franchise

4.    Joanna McIntyre Queer Idol: Male-to-Female Transgender in Australian Reality TV

3.30pm                Afternoon Tea 

4.00pm                Panel Six: History and Memory [Chair: Zala Volcic]

1.    Minette Hillyer Being at Home, Acting in Public, or Your Funny, Funny Life: The

        Pre-Reality Display of Home Movies on TV

2.    Amy West When Two become One: [E]merging Cultures in the Reality-History

        series One Land

3.       Alexia Smit Forgiving  and Forgetting:  Fatherhood in Post-Apartheid South Africa’s Reality Television

5.30pm            Concluding Address: Misha Kavka

NB: Paper titles in bold font indicate Invited Speakers