[Discussion] CFP: Console-ing Passions 2006

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From:  	 Elana Levine <ehlevine@uwm.edu>

Call for Papers

Console-ing Passions, the international conference on television, video,
audio, and new media, invites submissions for the 2006 conference to be held in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Dates:  May 25-27th, 2006
Conference Location:  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing
Passions works to create collegial spaces for new work and scholarship on
culture and identity in television and related media, with an emphasis on gender
and sexuality.

Since 1992, Console-ing Passions conferences have featured new research on
feminist perspectives, including race and ethnicity, post-colonialism, queer
studies, globalization, national identity, fusion genres, the social and
cultural insertion of new  media, the historical development of media, and an
ongoing feminist concern with gender dynamics in the production and consumption
of electronic media (excluding cinema).

Console-ing Passions¹ emphasis on electronic media reflects its mission to
provide an alternative scholarly space to those centered on film; papers or
projects that include film as part of a larger perspective are welcome but
non-film media are the primary focus.

Proposal Submissions:

Individual Papers: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words along
with a short bio.

Panels: Please submit a rationale for the panel (3-4 papers) of no more than
150 words, as well as abstracts of 500 words for each paper and a short bio and
contact information for each contributor.

Workshops: Please submit a rationale for the workshop (a series of short,
informal presentations on a related topic, meant to encourage discussion), along
with individual abstracts of no more than 200 words and a short bio and
contact information for each participant.

Screenings of video, audio, or new media work: Please submit an abstract of no
more than 500 words and a short bio of the producer/director.

All submissions must include an email message with the following information:
name, affiliation, email address, and telephone number for the author, panel or
workshop organizer, or producer/director for screenings. Email message should
also specify the audio/visual materials needed for the presentation. Please be
as specific about a/v needs as possible.

All proposals must be saved as PDF files and attached to the email message. All
identifying information should be omitted from the PDF files for the purpose
of blind review. All must have a title. Email message and PDF files should be
labelled as follows:  your last name and the type of proposal (i.e. Smithpaper
or Smithpanel or Smithworkshop or Smithscreening).  Please submit all proposals
to cptv@uwm.edu.

Deadline for receipt of proposals is December 15, 2005.

Please direct all questions about the conference and the submission process to
cptv@uwm.edu.

See the Console-ing Passions website: http://www.cp.commarts.wisc.edu for more
information about Console-ing Passions and the 2006 conference.

Elana Levine
<ehlevine@uwm.edu>