Browsing Room, Knight Library

Sponsored by CSWS, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and the ASUO Women’s Center)

Panel members include:

Rebecca Wanzo, associate professor of Women’s Studies and English, Ohio State University; Jocelyn Hollander, associate professor, UO Department of Sociology; and Mara Williams, graduate student, UO School of Journalism and Communication.

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

April 22-24, 2010

University of Oregon—Eugene, Oregon

Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions creates collegial spaces for scholarship and other creative work on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality in television and related media. Since the early 1990s, Console-ing Passions conferences have supported new research on a myriad of feminist perspectives related to the study of television, digital, and aural media.

The 2010 Console-ing Passions conference invites paper and panel proposals that consider the breadth of feminist issues on television, audio and new media, including—but not limited to—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 ongoing feminist concerns with gender dynamics in the production and consumption of media.

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM (Pacific) on Monday, November 2, 2009.
Conference convenes April 22-24, 2010

Guideline for Proposal Submission:

Proposals are Invited for an Interdisciplinary Conference

Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2009

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech

April 22-24, 2010    Roanoke, Virginia

We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore: the technological production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of embodiment, and the gendered implications of technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet. We construe technology broadly to include material culture and the apparatus of daily life, such as writing, books and the built environment.

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

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

April 22-24, 2010
University of Oregon — Eugene, Oregon

Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions creates collegial spaces for scholarship and other creative work on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality in television and related media. Since the early 1990s, Console-ing Passions conferences have supported new research on a myriad of feminist perspectives related to the study of television, digital, and aural media.

The 2010 Console-ing Passions conference invites paper and panel proposals that consider the breadth of feminist issues on television, audio and new media, including—but not limited to—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 ongoing feminist concerns with gender dynamics in the production and consumption of media.

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM (Pacific) on Monday, November 2, 2009.
Conference convenes April 22-24, 2010

Guideline for Proposal Submission:

Both individual papers and panel submissions should be submitted through the Console-ing Passions website via the online form available at www.cptv.uoregon.edu/registration. We will begin accepting submissions on Tuesday, September 1, 2009.

Individuals submitting paper proposals will be asked to provide an abstract of 500 words, a short bio, and contact information.

Coordinators proposing Pre-Constituted Panels will be asked to submit a 150-word rationale for the panel (3-4 papers) as well as the following information per contributor: 500-word abstract, short bio, and contact information.

Workshop coordinators will be required to submit a 150-word rationale for the workshop along with the following information per contributor: 200-word abstract, short bio, and contact information. Workshops are intended to encourage discussion; contributors should plan on a series of brief, informal presentations on a related topic so as to facilitate conversation.

Proposals for video, audio, or new media screenings will consist of a 500-word abstract, a short bio of the producer/director, and contact information.

We look forward to welcoming you to the 2010 Console-ing Passions conference at the University of Oregon. For more information about Console-ing Passions and the 2010 conference, please visit our website http://cptv.uoregon.edu.  You can direct specific questions about the conference and the submission process to: cptv@uoregon.edu

Conference Co-Chairs:

Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Film and Media Studies, Department of English, University of Oregon

Carol Stabile, Department of English; School of Journalism and Communication; Director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

The Teaching Race and Gender Beyond Diversity conference will draw scholars from across the country with a shared interest in novel approaches to teaching and learning about race and gender in the university classroom.

The two-day conference will include a series of collaborative workshops rooted in teaching race and gender from an intersectional and interdisciplinary framework. The workshops will provide a setting from instructors at all levels and backgrounds to share innovative syllabi, frameworks and exercises covering a range of topics.

The conference will also include a public plenary and discussion on Friday, May 7, 12-1:30 p.m. featuring:

• Rusty Barceló, Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota
• Inés Hernández-Avila , Professor of Native American Studies and Director, Chicana/Latina Research Center, UC Davis
• Angela B. Ginorio, Associate Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington and Director of Rural Girls in Science Program, University of Washington

Registration for the conference is free and will be available through a conference website to be launched in January, 2010. For more information on the conference, contact Daniel Hosang (dhosang@uoregon.edu).

The conference is sponsored by the UO Department of Ethnic Studies and Department of Women and Gender Studies with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, the Graduate School, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.