Friday, March 21, 2025
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Cabral Center at the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute
40 Leon Street, Boston
11th Annual WGSS Symposium
“Pictures, Words, and Lies: Representing Gender & Race in the News Media”
This year’s annual Northeastern WGSS Women’s History Month Symposium focuses on the news media in its broadest sense and how it reports on gender, race, and marginalized identities. Here, we intend to examine the multi-faceted term “media” as representation, creation, industry, ideology, and collective practice. In curated conversations, panelists will examine how progressive social movements are (mis)represented in mainstream media and news, but also how we attempt to challenge those narrow and false depictions. The symposium will use the frame of pictures, words, and lies. We will convene a group of interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, journalists, photographers, and media-makers to dissect the many ways the news media construct and present the identities of those on whom it reports. Speakers will separately address power and possibilities in the domains of image and text.
