CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS

CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS:
TELEVISION, VIDEO, and FEMINISM


CALL FOR PAPERS
5th Annual Conference
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 25-28, 1996

Conference theme: Fighting back-lashes - global and local perspectives (Papers may also be on other topics)

Console-ing Passions welcomes paper proposals that foreground questions of sexual and other cultural differences. Preconstituted panels accepted. Possible areas include feminist perspectives on:

--Conference theme: fighting back-lashes
--TV & contemporary theory
--TV in African American culture
--TV in Latino cultures
--International TV
--TV audiences & ethnography
--TV & social history
--TV institutions & industries
--Video art & independent video
--TV & queer theory
--TV & constructions of ethnicity, race and sexuality
--Media pedagogy
--TV & children

Please send 250 word proposals only [with name(s), institution(s), address(es), email(s), phone(s), paper/panel title] to:

1. Preferred choice: world-wide web

a. http://www.pitt.edu/~cptv/cphome.html (home page)
b. http://www.pitt.edu/~cptv/proposal/prop-sub.html (proposal form)

2. Second choice: email cptv+@pitt.edu

3. Third choice: mail
Department of English
526 Cathedral
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

4. International Emergencies Only: fax Julie D'Acci (608) 262-9953

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS NOVEMBER 3, 1995

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Julie D'Acci, 1996 Conference Coordinator
6142 Vilas Communication Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
FAX: 608-262-9953
email: dacci@macc.wisc.edu

Advisory Board: Dianne Brooks, Phebe Chao, Julie D'Acci, Jane Feuer, Dee Dee Halleck, Mary Beth Haralovich, Marsha Kinder, Lauren Rabinovitz, Ellen Seiter, Lynn Spigel, Mimi White.