BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260923T160052EDT-2769kadoOJ@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260923T200052Z DESCRIPTION: \n\nGender\, Sexualities and Cultural Production in Brazil - P art 2\n “Gender\, Sexualities and Cultural Production in Brazil” is a two-p art lecture series organized by Professor Beatriz Polivanov\, a Visiting S cholar in the Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill. Pa rt of the AHCS Speaker Series\, the second installment features Beatriz Po livanov and Greice Schneider. To read about Part 1\, please visit here.\n \n Facebook event\n\n\n\n 'Beyond the DJ Booth: Electronic Music Scenes and Cultural Production from a Female Perspective'\n \n Beatriz Polivanov (Unive rsidade Federal Fluminense\, Brazil\; Visiting scholar\, AHCS)\n\nAbstract : The figure of the DJ – disc-jockey – is central in electronic music scen es. Throughout decades of experimentation and the consolidation of club cu lture\, there has been a low number of women occupying such position\, and line-ups in events are still mostly male dominant. Furthermore\, whereas literature on female participation in rock n’ roll scenes is already abund ant\, little has been written about them in the context of electronic danc e music – even less so in “Global South” scenarios. Nevertheless\, a serie s of collectives\, events and people that address gender inequality in the se scenes have risen over the last decade. In her book published in 2012\, “Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs\, Technology and Electronic Dance Mus ic Culture”\, Rebekah Farrugia discusses how several women had managed to switch from the position of observers and partygoers to that of profession al DJs. Based on recent interviews with female and non-binary DJs from Mon treal (Canada) and São Paulo (Brazil)\, as well as the observation of part ies\, festivals and other events\, I argue that the challenge nowadays is not only reaching the DJ booth – and being respected once they do it –\, b ut also going beyond it\, and pursuing multiple roles in their careers\, s uch as that of events’ organizers\, music producers\, visual artists and e ntrepreneurs. Apart from the fascination with the numerous talents the res earch’s participants have\, I also seek to question whether there is a hig her demand for non-male DJs to work “double” or “triple shifts”.\n\nBio: B eatriz Polivanov is a tenured professor at the Media and Cultural Studies Department\, as well as a permanent professor at the Post-Graduation Progr am in Communication at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)\, Rio de Jane iro\, Brazil. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Art History and C ommunication Studies Department at McGill University. She holds a PhD and MA in Communication from UFF. She got her BA degree in Arts (English and P ortuguese Languages and Literatures) and a licentiate degree in Education from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is the founder and coordinator of the research group MiDICom (Digital Media\, Identity and C ommunication). Her research interests involve digital culture\, self-perfo rmance\, electronic music scenes and gender relations. She is the author o f the book 'Identity dynamics in social network sites: a study with partic ipants of electronic music scenes on Facebook' (published in Portuguese\, in 2014\, based on her PhD thesis). Her work has also appeared in several journals and publications\, such as “Brazilian Journal of Communication Sc iences” (RBCC)\; “InTexto” and “The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History” (forthcoming).\n\n\n\n 'Graphic humour in Brazilian comic strips: the case of Laerte Coutinho'\n\nGreice Schneider (Professor at th e Department of Communications at Universidade Federal de Sergipe\; Visiti ng scholar\, Art History\, UQAM)\n \n Abstract: This presentation discusses the poetics of graphic humour in contemporary Brazilian comic strips\, wit h special attention to the way shifts in moral conventions and the reader' s horizon of expectations are explored. Issues such as gender\, sexuality and identity will be tackled here through an examination of the work of La erte Coutinho\, one of the most relevant Brazilian cartoonists nowadays. T he aim here is to address strategies proper to the comics medium\, such as the tension between image and text\, the use of visual metaphors\, and th e power of synthesis in the schematic graphic representation of types. Thi s study also covers a short panorama of comic strips produced in recent ye ars in Brazil and investigates how ironic disjunction is explored in short formats\, such as editorial cartoons and comic strips.\n \n Bio: Greice Sch neider is a tenured professor at the Department of Communications of Unive rsidade Federal de Sergipe (Brazil). She is currently working as a visitin g scholar of the Department of Art History at UQAM\, doing research about photo narratives in journalism. She holds a PhD in Literature (KULeuven) a nd a MA in Communication and Contemporary Culture (Universidade Federal da Bahia). Her main interests lie in the field of visual studies\, with a pa rticular interest in the relations between image and narrative. She is the author of “What happens when nothing happens: boredom and everyday life i n contemporary comics” (Leuven University Press). Her publications have ap peared in Studies in Comics\, European Comic Art and Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art. She is the leader of the research group Lavint (Laboratório de Análise de Visualidades\, Narrativas e Tecnologias) and member of Rede Grafo (Rede Integrada de Pesquisa sobre Teorias e Análise da Fotografia). \n\n \n\n DTSTART:20200206T210000Z DTEND:20200206T230000Z LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She rbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Speaker Series | Gender\, Sexualities and Cultural Production in Br azil - Part 2 URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/speaker-series-gender-sexuali ties-and-cultural-production-brazil-part-2-303686 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR