[ecrea] CFP: Console-ing Passions

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*CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS*

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

*July 27-29 2017*

*East Carolina University*

*Greenville, NC*

Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media 
scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and 
foster scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with 
an emphasis on gender and sexuality. The first Console-ing Passions 
conference was held at the University of Iowa in 1992. Since then, 
Console-ing Passions has expanded to become not only the most important 
conference for scholars studying gender in television but also among the 
top conferences for scholars of media generally.

The 2017 Conference Organizing Committee invites proposals for 
individual papers, pre-constituted panels, and pre-constituted forums 
that consider television, video, audio, or new media alongside gender, 
sexuality, race, and/or other intersected components of identity. We 
also welcome proposals for video, audio, or new media creative works 
related to gender and other modes of identity. In light of the possible 
persistence of House Bill 2 in North Carolina, the host committee 
encourages and will give special preference to panels, forums and 
creative works that engage with the stakes and consequences of studying, 
teaching and writing about LGBTQI representation and how it intersects 
with gender identity, racial and economic justice, class, immigration 
and citizenship, ability and disability, incarceration, and other 
categories and social concerns. In particular, we encourage encourage 
panels and forums specifically devoted to critically interrogating HB2 
and anti-LGBTQI legislation in North Carolina and elsewhere in order to 
make CP@ECU a venue for engaging and analyzing the impact of this 
legislation as well as a space of resistance.

*A note on undergraduate submissions: *Console-ing Passions is also 
accepting undergraduate proposals. Please encourage interested 
undergraduates to apply.

*A note on travel funding: *Scholars who wish to attend CP@ECU but lack 
state travel funds due to boycotts of North Carolina related to HB2 will 
be eligible to apply for assistance from a limited pool of special 
travel funds. Stay tuned for more information.

*A note on House Bill 2:*Console-ing Passions 2017 will provide a safe, 
welcoming environment to all of its members. The 2017 Conference 
Organizing Committee does not support or enforce HB2. Both the ECU 
Faculty Senate and the Greenville City Council passed resolutions 
opposing HB2.

*Submission Guidelines:*

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM (US Eastern Daylight Time) on 
Monday, January 16 2017.

The Submittable link will be available starting on December 1, 2016:

http://www.console-ingpassions.org/cfp-cp-conference-2017/

*Proposal Guidelines:*

Proposers may submit:

1.one paper *or* creative project, and one CP Forum.

Attendees may present:

1.one paper *or* creative project, and may participate in one CP Forum.

*Individual Papers:*Individuals submitting a paper proposals should 
provide an abstract of 250 words, a short bio, and contact information. 
Co-authored papers are acceptable.

*Panels:*Panel coordinators should submit a 250-word rationale for the 
pre-constituted panel as a whole. Coordinators should submit a 250-word 
abstract, a short bio, and contact information for each panel 
participant. Panels should include 3-4 papers. Co-authored papers are 
acceptable. Panels that include a diversity of panelist affiliations and 
experience levels are strongly encouraged.

*CP Forums:*Building upon the success of discussion-based roundtables at 
Flow and other conferences, we invite proposals for a limited number of 
pre-constituted roundtables that focus either on scholarly topics in the 
field or matters of professional interest. We are especially interested 
in roundtables that are likely to engage wide participation by 
conference attendees and which reflect our field's diversity of cultural 
identities, institutions, methodologies, and professional rank or 
employment status. Proposals should be submitted by a convener, who will 
propose a question (<100 words) and solicit brief (<250 words) responses 
from 5-7 respondents. Proposals should also include a brief bio and 
contact information for the convener and each participant. If the 
proposal is accepted, each participant will write a response to the 
question of no more than 600 words, which must be submitted to the 
conference organizers 2 weeks prior to the conference. Those papers will 
be circulated to all attendees and will form the basis of a public 
discussion during the CP Forum sessions. Roundtable participants’ 
remarks at the conference should be brief in order to encourage 
substantive discussion with attendees.

*Creative Works:*We invite proposals for video, audio, or new media 
screenings or exhibits. Each proposal 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. If the work is viewable 
online, please submit a URL.

Please direct any questions about the conference and/or the submission 
process to the conference organizers:

*Email:*(cpgreenville2017 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(cpgreenville2017 /at/ gmail.com)>

*Follow us on Twitter:*@CPECU17

*Like us on FB:*https://www.facebook.com/CPECU2017/

*Visit the conference website for updates about events, schedules, 
travel information, and more:*

http://www.console-ingpassions.org/

*Conference Organizers:*

Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs, Teaching Instructor, Department of English 
(Women’s Studies)

Anna Froula, Associate Professor, Department of English (Film Studies)

Amanda Ann Klein, Associate Professor, Department of English (Film Studies)

Marianne Montgomery, Associate Professor, Department of English 
(Renaissance Studies)

Jennifer Valko, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages 
(Hispanic Studies)

Katy Kavanagh Webb, Assistant Professor, Joyner Library

Carolyn Willis, Associate Professor, Joyner Library


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