6 December: listen to Hager Jemel-Fornetty (EDHEC) at the conference "Les inégalités de représentation à l’écran"
Hager Jemel-Fornetty, Associate Professor at EDHEC and Director of the Diversity & Inclusion Chair, will be speaking on 6 December at 11.30am on the subject of "Proposing a tool for measuring gender parity in scripted video games". This conference is being organised at the Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Presentation
This 2-day conference - on 5 and 6 December 2023 - focuses on media education and inequalities, crossing the study of the audiovisual sector and its relationship with sociological issues. It is sponsored by various partners (see below) and organised by Oliver Salas Herrera (IRCAV/U. Cadiz) and Perrine Boutin (IRCAV/Sorbonne Nouvelle).
There will be a number of round-table discussions and lectures, and the event will conclude with a screening of the film Simone, le voyage du siècle, at the end of the day on Wednesday. The full programme is available here: https://www.colloque-in.fr/programme.html
Hager Jemel-Fornetty's intervention
On 6 December at 11.30am, Hager Jemel-Fornetty, Associate Professor at EDHEC and Director of the Diversity & Inclusion Chair, will be speaking (In French) on the subject of "Proposing a tool for measuring gender parity in scripted video games". Together with Guergana Guintcheva, Professor at EDHEC, and Laura Lacombe, Chargée d’études at the Diversity & Inclusion Chair, she is the author of numerous works on this subject:
- Study « Video games put to the test of parity » (2023)
- EDHEC Vox interview (July 2023) - Hager Jemel-Fornetty : « Our test assesses sexism in video games for the first time: the results are indisputable »
- Academic article (Spring 2023) – « Napoléon Vs Marie-Antoinette : gender stereotypes in video games consumption and their reproduction in game narratives », International Journal of Arts Management (IJAM)
- EDHEC Vox / The Conversation article (Nov. 2022) - « Gender stereotypes in video game narratives »
Sponsors & partners
IRCAV – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Universidad de Cadiz – aide Margarita Salas 2021/2023
Savoir Devenir
Observatoire des images
Studio des Ursulines
Venues
- Contact : [email protected]
- Conference : Salle Athéna, Maison de la recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
- Film : Studio des Ursulines. 10 rue des Ursulines, 75005 Paris
