[ecrea] Console-ing Passions - CfP

*EXTENDED DEADLINE - JAN 31ST*
Console-ing Passions at 21

International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and 
Feminism.

June 23-25, 2013, De Montfort University Leicester UK.

Plenary : Charlotte Brunsdon; ‘The Television City’.

Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists in 1989, 
Console-ing Passions held its first official conference at the 
University of Iowa in 1992. Since that time, the conference has created 
collegial spaces for scholarly and other creative work on culture, 
identity, gender, and sexuality in television, digital and aural media, 
and gaming.

The organizers of the 2013 conference are seeking proposals for 
individual papers, pre-constituted panels, or workshops on the broad 
themes of culture, identity, gender, race, class and (dis)ability in 
television, digital and aural media and gaming.

We will be delighted to consider papers which address the broader aims 
of Console-ing Passions: identity, difference, otherness, gender, race, 
class, (dis)ability, sexuality in relation to television, digital and 
aural media, gaming, social and network media.

In addition we invite papers in the strands identified below which will 
be hosted by:

Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra : Gendering the recession

Sharon Lockyer : Comedy, from commissioning and production to 
performance and Audiences, taboo and offence.

Deborah Cartmell: Adaptations

Helen Wood: Audiences: consuming pains and pleasures.

Claire Monk : identity convergence culture and online fandom.

Kaitlynn Mendes: Feminist media activism.

Sue Thomas: Social media and the internet.

Jo Whitehouse Hart and Diane Taylor: Mediating the psychosocial.

Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines: Punk Identity

Stuart Price: Historical Media discourse.

Margaret Montgomerie: Disability.

Deadline for receipt of proposals is January 31st, 2013.

Please submit your proposal and short biography to: Console-ingPassions.org

Enquiries to (cptv /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(cptv /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>

Guidelines for Proposal Submission:

Individual Papers: Individuals submitting paper proposals will be asked 
to provide an abstract of 250 words, a short bio, and contact information.

Pre-Constituted Panel Proposals: In keeping with this year’s theme, we 
ask that panels attempt to showcase a range of experience in the field; 
graduate students and novice presenters are encouraged to pair with 
experienced scholars. Panel coordinators should submit a 200-word 
rationale for the panel as whole. For each contributor, please submit a 
250-word abstract, a short bio, and contact information. Panels should 
have three to four papers.

Workshop Proposals: We seek workshop ideas that focus not only on 
scholarly issues in the discipline, but also on matters of 
professionalization. Topics might include: gender and sexuality in the 
workplace; teaching feminist media studies; tenure and family; 
publishing your first article or monograph; moving to full professor or 
administration; mentoring challenges and opportunities, etc. 
Coordinators should submit a 350-word rationale for the workshop 
(including some discussion of why the topic lends itself to a workshop 
format), a short bio, and contact information. For each workshop 
participant, please submit a title, short bio, and contact information. 
Workshops are intended to encourage discussion; contributors should plan 
on a series of brief, informal presentations.

Screening Proposals: We invite proposals for video, audio, or new media 
screenings. Proposals should consist of a 350-word abstract (including 
the length and format of the work), a short bio of the 
producer/director, and contact information.

Conference Organizers:

Yvonne Tasker, Diane Negra, Sharon Lockyer, Deborah Cartmell, Sue 
Thomas, Helen Wood, Claire Monk, Kaitlynn Mendes, Jo Whitehouse-Hart, 
Diane Taylor, Alastair Gordon, Mike Dines, Stuart Price and Margaret 
Montgomerie.