{"id":1530,"date":"2016-05-13T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2016-05-13T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:23:59","slug":"upcoming-cjrc-seminar-featuring-dr-larissa-sandy-dr-anastasia-powell-from-rmit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/05\/13\/upcoming-cjrc-seminar-featuring-dr-larissa-sandy-dr-anastasia-powell-from-rmit\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming CJRC Seminar Featuring Dr Larissa Sandy &amp; Dr Anastasia Powell from RMIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/05\/POWELLanastasia1.jpg\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/05\/Sandy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1532\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/05\/Sandy1.jpg\" alt=\"Sandy1\" width=\"107\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/05\/POWELLanastasia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1531\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/05\/POWELLanastasia1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"POWELLanastasia1\" width=\"110\" height=\"160\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mams.rmit.edu.au\/pydyrxvec44m.png\" alt=\"RMIT University\" width=\"198\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Please join us for the next seminar hosted by the CJRC\u00a0with speakers <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Dr Larissa Sandy &amp; Dr Anastasia Powell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Topic \u2013\u00a0 Narrative constructions of women as victims in news and social media: Case studies from trafficking in Cambodia and sexual violence in Victoria (Australia)<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday 19<sup>th<\/sup> May 2016<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>When: <\/strong>3:30-5pm, afternoon tea provided<br \/>\n<strong>Venue: <\/strong>C412, Level 4, C Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus, 2 George St, Brisbane<\/li>\n<li><strong>Register:\u00a0<\/strong>by Monday 16<sup>th<\/sup> May 2016 to <a href=\"mailto:am.gurd@qut.edu.au\">am.gurd@qut.edu.au<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: This seminar grapples with some of the vexed issues surrounding constructions of female victimhood in the print and social media. In the seminar, Sandy and Powell will highlight their arguments with respect to two very seemingly different criminal justice issues. The discussion will address the similarities that exist in relation to the rhetorical strategies designed to establish female innocence and construct victimhood and the frictions that exist when women\u2019s raw, physical suffering is used a means of creating solidarity in local and global audiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dr Larissa Sandy: Reading Srey Mom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In 2009 the New York Times published an account of trafficking in Cambodia written by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Nicholas Kristof. Starting with the title, \u2018If this isn\u2019t slavery, what is?\u2019, the paper undertakes a narrative analysis of trafficking stories as it considers the politics of human suffering and misery in the anti-trafficking movement. The paper explores the construction of the victim subject or suffering female body, use of rhetoric and melodrama, analyzing this as a form of emotional coercion that ultimately forces audiences to uncritically accept the logic of trafficking and allowing the anti-trafficking movement to side step some of the philosophical and definitional issues surrounding trafficking and promotion of anti-sex work agendas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dr Anastasia Powell: Following #Jill Meagher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the early morning of Saturday 22 September 2012 a Melbourne woman, Gillian \u2018Jill\u2019 Meagher, was reported missing after spending an evening out with work colleagues in suburban Brunswick (Melbourne, Victoria). Thousands of Australians followed the crime event as it unfolded via the mainstream news and online. On Sunday 23rd September, a Facebook group \u2018Help Us Find Jill Meagher\u2019 was created, accumulating 90,000 followers in just four days, while the keywords \u2018jill\u2019, \u2018meagher\u2019, \u2018brunswick\u2019 and \u2018vanished\u2019 were all reported as trending on Twitter across Australia. This paper focuses on the press and social media narrative constructions of this crime: from Jill&#8217;s initial disappearance, to the identification of her alleged killer and discovery of her body, through to the street march held in her memory on Sunday 30th September 2012. In doing so, the paper reflects on the changing nature of citizen engagement with crime and justice enabled in the digital age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Please join us for the next seminar hosted by the CJRC\u00a0with speakers Dr Larissa Sandy &amp; Dr Anastasia Powell Topic \u2013\u00a0 Narrative constructions of women as victims in news and social media: Case studies from trafficking in Cambodia and sexual violence in Victoria (Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9697],"tags":[11623,11622,9733,11624],"class_list":{"0":"post-1530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-conferences","8":"tag-anastasiapowell","9":"tag-seminar-larissasandy","10":"tag-sexualviolence","11":"tag-traffickingwomen"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}