The third and final meeting of the International Standing Working Group on Medialization and Empowerment was held virtually on January 20 and 21, 2022. At the end of a three-year project, looking at the interconnections, contingencies, and dependencies of women’s rights and the media throughout the long-twentieth century, the conference explored the role of the media in shaping and constituting discussions of gender roles and women’s rights globally. Convened by Christina von Hodenberg and Jane Freeland (London), it is part of the international research project Knowledge Unbound: Internationalization, Networking, Innovation in and by the Max Weber Stiftung and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Continue reading Conference Report: The History of Medialization and Empowerment: The Intersection of Women’s Rights Activism and the Media, 20–21 January 2022Author: Kassandra Hammel
Kassandra Hammel is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Freiburg, where she also earned a Masters in Comparative Modern History. She holds a PhD scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation and has held a research scholarship from the German Historical Institute London. Her research focuses on the history of feminism in West Germany and the UK, with a particular focus on the production and transformation mechanisms of knowledge about health, sexuality, and the body.