[Commlist] CFP Console-ing Passions 2027

*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*
* CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS*
/International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and 
Feminism/
*28-30 June 2027*
*University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands*
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 feminist scholarship on issues of television, culture, and 
identity. Since its first conference at the University of Iowa in 1992, 
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 feminist scholars of media more broadly.
In 2027, Console-ing Passions comes to Amsterdam under the theme 
*Provocations*. We take inspiration from Amsterdam’s Provo movement and 
Roel van Duyn’s proposition that provocations are /aanleidingen/: they 
serve as catalysts to create occasions (or the Provos’ favorite word, 
“happenings”) in which pre-existing as well as emergent conflicts and 
contradictions become visible. Amsterdam offers a resonant history for 
thinking about provocation in these terms, from the Provos’ playful 
interventions in public life to feminist and queer actions that used 
disruption and media visibility to challenge established norms and 
inequalities. In line with this genealogy, we envision CP 2027 becoming 
such an occasion: a provocative space for feminist media scholarship to 
encounter, question, and rework its objects, histories, methods, and 
futures.
The 2027 Conference Organizing Committee in the _Department of Media 
Studies_ 
<https://www.uva.nl/en/discipline/media-studies/media-studies.html>/ 
_Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)_ 
<http://www.asca.uva.nl/>at the University of Amsterdam invites 
proposals for *individual papers, pre-constituted panels, and 
pre-constituted roundtables* addressing media, broadly conceived, 
through intersectional feminist perspectives, including questions of 
gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, coloniality, and other 
systems of power and inequality. Proposals need not address the 
conference theme, but we particularly welcome reflections on what 
provocation might mean for feminist media studies. How have media and 
media practices been provocative, and how do understandings of what is 
“provocative” change and collide? Who gets to provoke, and who is 
presumed to be provocative by speaking, appearing, desiring, refusing, 
embracing or making media? What happens when boundaries between media, 
disciplines, generations, publics, or forms of knowledge are disturbed? 
How might provocation operate epistemologically or methodologically, 
making different objects, archives, relations, pleasures, or ways of 
knowing perceptible? And what might such questions provoke us to 
reconsider about the histories, boundaries, and futures of feminist 
media scholarship itself?
CP 2027 will be an in-person conference because this is a better 
experience for everyone involved. Virtual participation can be 
accommodated, but only in exceptional circumstances and on a 
case-by-case basis.
We are working to make childcare and mobility support available during 
CP 2027 and will provide further information as options are confirmed.
*Submission Guidelines*
We invite proposals in the following formats:
*Individual papers*
A title and abstract of up to 300 words.
*Pre-constituted panels*
Three papers plus one provocateur, who will offer a critical response 
and moderate the discussion. Proposals should include a panel title, a 
150-word rationale, and a title and abstract of up to 300 words for each 
paper.
*Pre-constituted roundtables*
Four or five participants and one provocateur, who will moderate and 
enliven the discussion. Roundtables should be designed around exchange 
rather than a sequence of short papers. Proposals should include a title 
and up to 400 words identifying the central question or tension, 
explaining the envisioned format and participants’ contributions, and 
indicating how the session will create space for wider discussion. 
Experimental and original formats are particularly welcome.
All proposals should include a brief biographical note of up to 100 
words for each participant. Panels and roundtables bringing together 
different career stages, institutional locations, and perspectives are 
encouraged.
A delegate may participate in a maximum of two capacities across the 
conference programme.
Proposals should be submitted via _this form_ 
<https://forms.gle/YjFJ1R95NRyVQrAM9>by *Tuesday, 1 December 2026, 23:59 
Central European Time (CET)*. Submission link: 
https://forms.gle/1i62NU3NGJ3SYbwJ7
Notifications of acceptance will be sent in *late January 2027*.
For questions about the conference or the submission process, please 
contact the organizing committee at _cp27-fgw@uva.nl_ 
<mailto:(cp27-fgw /at/ uva.nl)>.
Please watch for updates and news at 
_http://www.console-ingpassions.org/_ 
<http://www.console-ingpassions.org/>and on the _conference website_ 
<http://cp27.humanities.uva.nl/>, which is expected to go live at the 
end of September.
*Conference Organizers:* Misha Kavka and Balázs Boross
Department of Media Studies / ASCA, University of Amsterdam

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