<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please post. Some colleagues may be interested in this conference. <div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot. <div>Helen Yeates<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Console-ing Passions at 21</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism.
</font></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">June 23-25, 2013, De Montfort University Leicester UK.</font></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Plenary: Charlotte Brunsdon, ‘The Television City’.</font></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">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.
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">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.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">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.
</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">In addition we invite papers in the strands identified below which will be hosted by:</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra: Gendering the recession</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium; margin-top:0in">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sharon Lockyer:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; color:black">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Comedy, from commissioning and production to performance and
<span style=""> </span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium; margin-top:0in">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><span style="">
</span>Audiences, taboo and offence.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium; margin-top:0in">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Deborah Cartmell:<span style="">
</span>Adaptations</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; color:black"></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Helen Wood: Audiences: consuming pains and pleasures.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Claire Monk: identity convergence culture and online fandom.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Kaitlynn Mendes: Feminist media activism.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sue Thomas: Social media and the internet.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Jo Whitehouse Hart and Diane Taylor: Mediating the psychosocial.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines: Punk Identity</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Stuart Price:<span style="">
</span>Historical Media discourse.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Margaret Montgomerie: Disability.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Deadline for receipt of proposals is January 10, 2013.</span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please submit your proposal and short biography to:</span></b><span style="">
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://Console-ingPassions.org/">Console-ingPassions.org</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""></span></p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span lang="EN-GB" style=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Guidelines for Proposal Submission:</span></u><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Individual Papers:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> Individuals submitting paper
proposals will be asked to provide an abstract of 250 words, a short bio, and contact information.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Pre-Constituted Panel Proposals:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> 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.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Workshop Proposals:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> 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.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Screening Proposals:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> 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.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Conference Organizers:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
Yvonne Tasker, Diane Negra, Sharon Lockyer,<span style=""> </span>Deborah Cartmell, Sue Thomas,
<span style=""> </span>Helen Wood, Claire Monk, Kaitlynn Mendes, Jo Whitehouse-Hart, Diane Taylor, Alastair Gordon,
<span style=""> </span>Mike Dines, Stuart Price and Margaret Montgomerie.<span style="">
</span></span></p></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>