[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Consoling Passions Conference 2008

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Papers

We are now accepting proposals for

Console-ing Passions:
A Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism

April 24-26, 2008 - Santa Barbara, California

Founded 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 the early 1990s, Console-ing Passions conferences have featured 
new research on feminist perspectives, including race and ethnicity,
post-colonialism, queer studies, globalization, national identity,
television genres, the social and cultural study of new media, the
historical development of media, and an ongoing feminist concern with
gender dynamics in the production and consumption of electronic media.
Our consideration of television, digital, and aural media comes at a
pivotal moment of political, social, cultural, and technological
transformation. Key among our concerns for the 2008 Console-ing Passions 
conference is the fact that race, gender and important feminist issues 
will be prominent topics of political discourse in electronic and 
digital media during this crucial presidential election year. Issues 
such as reproductive rights, and gay marriage, for example, are hotly 
contested issues often addressed in the mediasphere. The introduction of 
blogs, viral video, and social networking sites has had a tremendous 
impact on traditional media, and their influences on politics represent 
a shift in the mediation of democratic processes in the U.S., and in 
different parts of the world. We are also interested in how new mobile 
video technologies (i.e., cell phones, and ipods) inaugurate a new era 
of ?ubiquitous media? and participate in the renegotiation of the 
private and public spheres. Some of these recent changes are related to 
historical processes. As always, we are very interested in historical 
research on television, audio and new media.

Taking advantage of our conference location in Santa Barbara, 
California, which is very close to both the Hollywood film and TV 
industry, and the information technology hub of Silicon Valley, we also 
invite submissions that explore the position of women and ethnic 
minorities in these media and information industries.

We are interested in these and other topics that consider such 
developments specifically from feminist perspectives.  We invite paper 
proposals that consider, but are not limited to the following:

        gender, media and presidential politics
        history and theory of television
        women, race, and the Don Imus effect
        feminism and the blogosphere
        YouTube and social networking
        gender, 'nature' and media
        experimental media histories and criticism
        women in media industries
        gender and media spaces
        media and reproductive politics
        media and gay/lesbian politics
        reality TV
        second life, gaming, virtual reality online
        religion and media
        gender and technology
        gender and violence
        militarism
        mobile media activism
        theories of post-television
        theorizing TV in the age of Tivo
        gender, media and globalization

Deadline for receipt of proposals is NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Conference convenes April 24-26, 2008

GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:
Individual Papers: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words 
with a short bio. Be sure to include titles for all submissions (papers,
panels, workshops, and screenings).

Panels: 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: 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, title (if applicable), 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 equipment needed for the presentation.  Please be as 
specific about a/v needs as possible.

It is preferable that proposals be saved as PDF files. All proposals 
must have a title. All proposals must be attached to the email message. 
Email message and PDF files should be labeled as follows:  your last 
name and the type of proposal (i.e. Smithpaper or Smithpanel or 
Smithworkshop or Smithscreening).

Submit all proposals to ? cptvconference at filmandmedia.ucsb.edu.
Direct all questions about the conference and the submission process to:
cptvconference at filmandmedia.ucsb.edu

See the Console-ing Passions website: http://www.cp.commarts.wisc.edu 
for more information about Console-ing Passions and links to the 2008
conference. Or you can go directly to the conference website at:
http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html.

The conference will take place in the UCEN on the UCSB campus.

We look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara!

Conference Co-Chairs:
Anna Everett and Lisa Parks
Dept. of Film and Media Studies            University of 
California-Santa Barbara

Please note new email address: parks at filmandmedia.ucsb.edu

Lisa Parks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Film and Media Studies
University of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

phone: 805.893.5547
fax: 805.893.8630
email: parks at filmandmedia.ucsb.edu