[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: 2008 Console-ing Passions Conference

[Gonul Pultar]

Reminder -- Call for Papers

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

April 24-26, 2008 - University of California, Santa Barbara
(See Conference Website: http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html)

Dear Colleagues:

It is not too late to submit a paper, preconstituted panel, or workshop 
to the upcoming Console-ing Passions Conference. This International 
Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism was 
founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing 
Passions 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:

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


Deadline for receipt of proposals is NOVEMBER 1, 2007

This conference convenes April 24-26, 2008, at the University of
California, Santa Barbara


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 Main Console-ing Passions website: http://www.cp.commarts.wisc.edu
for more information about the Console-ing Passions Organization and 
links to the 2008 conference.

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




Lisa Parks
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