Roundtable "STEM en la cultura popular estadounidense: evaluación del discurso de género, estereotipos e integración"
Presentation of volume 4 of "REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos"
Taking advantage of science week and the publication of volume 4 of REDEN (Spanish Journal of North American Studies), which focuses on the representation of gender in US popular culture related to STEM fields, we want to open a space for discussion on this topic outside of the academic environment. Anna Marta Marini and Laura Álvarez Trigo will open the event commenting on this thematic dossier, which aims to offer different explorations and analysis of how popular culture can show both positive and negative representations of STEM fields concerning gender and other alterities. Afterward, Jody del Río Manzanas will bring us closer as a scientist to alterity in science, considering inclusion and diversity. We will continue with a discussion that aims to bring lived experiences as scientists closer to a vision of their representation in popular culture, and we will close with a conversation with the audience. We will discuss how no one consumes a pop culture text free from bias, and that's the same for research and any scientific practice.
Fecha: Friday, November 11
Time: 7 to 8.30 pm
Place: Mary Read Bookshop (Calle del Marqués de Toca, 3. 28012, Madrid)
Anna Marta Marini
Instituto Franklin-UAH
MA and BA in Linguistics and Cultural Mediation at the Università degli Studi di Milano (specializing in Anglo and Hispanic American Cultures, as well as Mexican Studies), 2nd level postgraduate MA in Public History at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Her FPI project and dissertation work (realized in collaboration with the CISAN–UNAM) explores the film representation of reciprocate Otherness bridging the US–Mexico boundary. Her main research interests are: discursive and cultural representation of the US borderlands and Mexican American communities; CDA related to direct/structural/cultural violence; re/construction and narration of otherness through cinema and comics in the horror, gothic, and (weird) western genres.
Laura Álvarez Trigo
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Associate Professor at UCM and IE. PhD in American Studies. Specialist in media theory, contemporary literature, and English teaching. She has participated in differrent projects related to feminism and popular culture, areas to which she feels very close not only from an academic perspective, but also from a personal one.
Jody del Río Manzanas
Scientific communicator
Jody is a biotechnologist specialized in neuroscience. She participates in science workshops with children and performs in drag in auto-managed musicals. In her free time, she talks about LGBTIQA+ activism, no-monoganism, and anti-capacitism.