Panel Session Proposal - ICA 2008
Commodity Activism
Recent years have witnessed a growing concern among scholars of communication and media over the limits of critical scholarship and social action, specifically the implications of neoliberalism in the “post-feminist,” “post-civil rights,” and “post-capitalist” era(s) as it bowdlerizes and represses forms of social action. As feminist media critics and scholars of race and ethnicity ponder the ongoing incorporation of radical icons into the logics of merchandising, as tactics and strategies of social critique become transformed into commodity forms surviving as little more than diverting spectacles, and as corporations and corporate celebrities take their place as new models for social action and empowerment leading charitable campaigns and global philanthropies, this panel serves to examine the ways in which social activism may itself be transforming into a branded commodity in the neoliberal era.
Providing a range of examples culled from news texts, radio and television media, Hollywood and independent films, the speakers on this panel consider modes and practices of social activism as marketable commodities that are produced through labor, for purposes of trade within markets, and which generate profit, competitive accumulation, and fetishization as commodities tend to do. Offering a variety of cases of “commodity activism,” this panel highlights the implications of such commoditization for critical scholarship and social action at this historical moment.
Contact Roopali Mukherjee [roopalimukherjee@earthlink.net]
Monday, October 29, 2007
CFP: New ICA journal
New ICA journal - Communication, Culture & Critique
Communication, Culture & Critique provides an international forum for research and commentary which examines the role of mediated communication in today's world. We welcome high quality research and analyses from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, from all fields of communication, media, film and cultural studies, which is critically informed, methodologically imaginative and careful in its exposition and argument. Foci for enquiry can include all kinds of text- and print-based media, as well as broadcast, still and moving images and electronic modes of communication including the internet, games and mobile telephony. We publish research-informed and theory-focused articles, commentaries on evolving and topical issues, research notes and reviews (books, films, DVDs, etc.).
Any and all approaches, analyses and perspectives are welcome, but especially those with a qualitative and/or interpretive inflection. Issue 1, vol.1 will be published in March 2008 and su! bsequent issues in the volume published in June, September and December 2008. We look forward to receiving your contributions to this exciting new journal which we hope will quickly become an important voice in our field, offering lively and innovative perspectives and critiques.
Contributions to CCC are via the online submission system provided by Manuscript Central. To submit your article/note/review, please go to:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cccr and follow the online instructions.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
CFP: Console-ing Passions: An International Conference
Call for Papers
Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism
April 24-26, 2008 - University of California, Santa Barbara (See Conference Website: http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html)
Dear Colleagues:
It is not too late to submit a paper, preconstituted panel, or workshop to the upcoming Console-ing Passions Conference. This International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism was founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions to create collegial spaces for new work and scholarship on culture and identity in television and related media, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.
Since the early 1990s, Console-ing Passions conferences have featured new research on feminist perspectives, including 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 an ongoing feminist concern with gender dynamics in the production and consumption of electronic media.
Our consideration of television, digital, and aural media comes at a pivotal moment of political, social, cultural, and technological transformation. Key among our concerns for the 2008 Console-ing Passions conference is the fact that race, gender and important feminist issues will be prominent topics of political discourse in electronic and digital media during this crucial presidential election year. Issues such as reproductive rights, and gay marriage, for example, are hotly contested issues often addressed in the mediasphere. The introduction of blogs, viral video, and social networking sites has had a tremendous impact on traditional media, and their influences on politics represent a shift in the mediation of democratic processes in the U.S., and in different parts of the world. We are also interested in how new mobile video technologies (i.e., cell phones, and ipods) inaugurate a new era of “ubiquitous media” and participate in the renegotiation of the private and public spheres. Some of these recent changes are related to historical processes. As always, we are very interested in historical research on television, audio and new media.
Taking advantage of our conference location in Santa Barbara, California, which is very close to both the Hollywood film and TV industry, and the information technology hub of Silicon Valley, we also invite submissions that explore the position of women and ethnic minorities in these media and information industries.
We are interested in these and other topics that consider such developments specifically from feminist perspectives. We invite paper proposals that consider, but are not limited to the following:
o gender, media and presidential politics
o history and theory of television
o women, race, and the Don Imus effect
o feminism and the blogosphere
o YouTube and social networking
o gender, 'nature' and media
o experimental media histories and criticism
o women in media industries
o gender and media spaces
o media and reproductive politics
o media and gay/lesbian politics
o reality TV
o second life, gaming, virtual reality online
o religion and media
o gender and technology
o gender and violence
o militarism
o mobile media activism
o theories of post-television
o theorizing TV in the age of Tivo
o gender, media and globalization
Deadline for receipt of proposals is NOVEMBER 1, 2007
This Conference convenes April 24-26, 2008, at the University of California, Santa Barbara
GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:
Individual Papers: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words with a short bio. Be sure to include titles for all submissions (papers, panels, workshops, and screenings).
Panels: Submit a rationale for the panel (3-4 papers) of no more than 150 words, as well as abstracts of 500 words for each paper and a short bio and contact information for each contributor.
Workshops: Submit a rationale for the workshop (a series of short, informal presentations on a related topic, meant to encourage discussion), along with individual abstracts of no more than 200 words and a short bio and contact information for each participant.
Screenings of video, audio, or new media work: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short bio of the producer/director.
All submissions must include an email message with the following
information: name, title (if applicable), affiliation, email address, and telephone number for the author, panel or workshop organizer, or producer/director for screenings. Email message should also specify the audio/visual equipment needed for the presentation. Please be as specific about a/v needs as possible.
It is preferable that proposals be saved as PDF files. All proposals must have a title. All proposals must be attached to the email message.
Email message and PDF files should be labeled as follows: your last name and the type of proposal (i.e. Smithpaper or Smithpanel or Smithworkshop or Smithscreening).
Submit all proposals to - cptvconference@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu.
Direct all questions about the conference and the submission process to:
cptvconference@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
See the Main Console-ing Passions website: http://www.cp.commarts.wisc.edu for more information about the Console-ing Passions Organization and links to the 2008 conference.
We look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara.
Conference Co-Chairs:
Anna Everett and Lisa Parks
Dept. of Film and Media Studies
University of California-Santa Barbara
Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism
April 24-26, 2008 - University of California, Santa Barbara (See Conference Website: http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html)
Dear Colleagues:
It is not too late to submit a paper, preconstituted panel, or workshop to the upcoming Console-ing Passions Conference. This International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism was founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions to create collegial spaces for new work and scholarship on culture and identity in television and related media, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.
Since the early 1990s, Console-ing Passions conferences have featured new research on feminist perspectives, including 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 an ongoing feminist concern with gender dynamics in the production and consumption of electronic media.
Our consideration of television, digital, and aural media comes at a pivotal moment of political, social, cultural, and technological transformation. Key among our concerns for the 2008 Console-ing Passions conference is the fact that race, gender and important feminist issues will be prominent topics of political discourse in electronic and digital media during this crucial presidential election year. Issues such as reproductive rights, and gay marriage, for example, are hotly contested issues often addressed in the mediasphere. The introduction of blogs, viral video, and social networking sites has had a tremendous impact on traditional media, and their influences on politics represent a shift in the mediation of democratic processes in the U.S., and in different parts of the world. We are also interested in how new mobile video technologies (i.e., cell phones, and ipods) inaugurate a new era of “ubiquitous media” and participate in the renegotiation of the private and public spheres. Some of these recent changes are related to historical processes. As always, we are very interested in historical research on television, audio and new media.
Taking advantage of our conference location in Santa Barbara, California, which is very close to both the Hollywood film and TV industry, and the information technology hub of Silicon Valley, we also invite submissions that explore the position of women and ethnic minorities in these media and information industries.
We are interested in these and other topics that consider such developments specifically from feminist perspectives. We invite paper proposals that consider, but are not limited to the following:
o gender, media and presidential politics
o history and theory of television
o women, race, and the Don Imus effect
o feminism and the blogosphere
o YouTube and social networking
o gender, 'nature' and media
o experimental media histories and criticism
o women in media industries
o gender and media spaces
o media and reproductive politics
o media and gay/lesbian politics
o reality TV
o second life, gaming, virtual reality online
o religion and media
o gender and technology
o gender and violence
o militarism
o mobile media activism
o theories of post-television
o theorizing TV in the age of Tivo
o gender, media and globalization
Deadline for receipt of proposals is NOVEMBER 1, 2007
This Conference convenes April 24-26, 2008, at the University of California, Santa Barbara
GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:
Individual Papers: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words with a short bio. Be sure to include titles for all submissions (papers, panels, workshops, and screenings).
Panels: Submit a rationale for the panel (3-4 papers) of no more than 150 words, as well as abstracts of 500 words for each paper and a short bio and contact information for each contributor.
Workshops: Submit a rationale for the workshop (a series of short, informal presentations on a related topic, meant to encourage discussion), along with individual abstracts of no more than 200 words and a short bio and contact information for each participant.
Screenings of video, audio, or new media work: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short bio of the producer/director.
All submissions must include an email message with the following
information: name, title (if applicable), affiliation, email address, and telephone number for the author, panel or workshop organizer, or producer/director for screenings. Email message should also specify the audio/visual equipment needed for the presentation. Please be as specific about a/v needs as possible.
It is preferable that proposals be saved as PDF files. All proposals must have a title. All proposals must be attached to the email message.
Email message and PDF files should be labeled as follows: your last name and the type of proposal (i.e. Smithpaper or Smithpanel or Smithworkshop or Smithscreening).
Submit all proposals to - cptvconference@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu.
Direct all questions about the conference and the submission process to:
cptvconference@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
See the Main Console-ing Passions website: http://www.cp.commarts.wisc.edu for more information about the Console-ing Passions Organization and links to the 2008 conference.
We look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara.
Conference Co-Chairs:
Anna Everett and Lisa Parks
Dept. of Film and Media Studies
University of California-Santa Barbara
Monday, June 25, 2007
Women and Language call for papers for a special issue
Women and Language call for papers for a special issue: Achieving interdisciplinary scholarship in communication, language and gender
Our call begins with the assumption that interdisciplinarity is critical to the study of communication, language and gender. A multiplicity of perspectives, theoretical traditions, methodological commitments, and political histories enrich our study. Journals like Women & Language and Gender and Language attest to the fertile intersections and conversations possible when scholars from multiple disciplines come together to address gender topics and issues.
And yet, is our work truly interdisciplinary? Too often, it seems that interdisciplinary intentions are enacted as multi-disciplinarity How might the conceptual developments in feminist scholarship contribute to or refashion our understandings of interdisciplinarity? How have feminist practices and politics reframed or resisted the conventions of academic work that hinder or even penalize interdisciplinarity? How can fertile sites of interdisciplinary engagement be nurtured in our programs, universities, and conferences? How might we understand interdisciplinarity and distinguish this goal from multidisciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity? What does it mean to create work that is, in its essence, interdisciplinary: what does that label require of us; how does it challenge, extend, threaten, revivify, shatter, bend, or recompose our research questions and methods? Is interdisciplinarity truly a goal across our studies and if so, why? How might it be achieved? Or, should this goal be abandoned, or replaced?
We invite scholars from diverse disciplines, experiences, and backgrounds to contribute to a special issue devoted to interdisciplinarity in order to consider such questions. We seek a wide range of responses: from research reports to theoretical speculation to personal experience; framed as poetry, poetic prose, or narrative; and in critical, analytical, argument or scientific forms. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the questions we have raised above and the following:
Conceptualizing interdisciplinarity
Moving from multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity
Connecting disciplines and perspectives
Deconstructing interdisciplinary scholarship
Implementing interdisciplinarity
Recounting personal accounts, narratives, or case studies of interdisciplinary work
Modeling or representations of interdisciplinary scholarship
Those interested in submitting items for review are encouraged to discuss their ideas in advance with the editors at vbergval@mtu.edu or pjsotiri@mtu.edu.
Submissions should be prepared according to prescriptions of the publications manuals of the Modern Language Association (MLA) or the American Psychological Association (APA). Articles should be no more than 5,000 words; shorter pieces are welcomed.
To submit, mail three copies of materials to: Victoria Bergvall and Patricia Sotirin, editors, Interdisciplinary Issue Women and Language, Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931-1295.
Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2007. The special issue is scheduled for Fall 2008 (Vol XXXI #2).
Our call begins with the assumption that interdisciplinarity is critical to the study of communication, language and gender. A multiplicity of perspectives, theoretical traditions, methodological commitments, and political histories enrich our study. Journals like Women & Language and Gender and Language attest to the fertile intersections and conversations possible when scholars from multiple disciplines come together to address gender topics and issues.
And yet, is our work truly interdisciplinary? Too often, it seems that interdisciplinary intentions are enacted as multi-disciplinarity How might the conceptual developments in feminist scholarship contribute to or refashion our understandings of interdisciplinarity? How have feminist practices and politics reframed or resisted the conventions of academic work that hinder or even penalize interdisciplinarity? How can fertile sites of interdisciplinary engagement be nurtured in our programs, universities, and conferences? How might we understand interdisciplinarity and distinguish this goal from multidisciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity? What does it mean to create work that is, in its essence, interdisciplinary: what does that label require of us; how does it challenge, extend, threaten, revivify, shatter, bend, or recompose our research questions and methods? Is interdisciplinarity truly a goal across our studies and if so, why? How might it be achieved? Or, should this goal be abandoned, or replaced?
We invite scholars from diverse disciplines, experiences, and backgrounds to contribute to a special issue devoted to interdisciplinarity in order to consider such questions. We seek a wide range of responses: from research reports to theoretical speculation to personal experience; framed as poetry, poetic prose, or narrative; and in critical, analytical, argument or scientific forms. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the questions we have raised above and the following:
Conceptualizing interdisciplinarity
Moving from multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity
Connecting disciplines and perspectives
Deconstructing interdisciplinary scholarship
Implementing interdisciplinarity
Recounting personal accounts, narratives, or case studies of interdisciplinary work
Modeling or representations of interdisciplinary scholarship
Those interested in submitting items for review are encouraged to discuss their ideas in advance with the editors at vbergval@mtu.edu or pjsotiri@mtu.edu.
Submissions should be prepared according to prescriptions of the publications manuals of the Modern Language Association (MLA) or the American Psychological Association (APA). Articles should be no more than 5,000 words; shorter pieces are welcomed.
To submit, mail three copies of materials to: Victoria Bergvall and Patricia Sotirin, editors, Interdisciplinary Issue Women and Language, Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931-1295.
Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2007. The special issue is scheduled for Fall 2008 (Vol XXXI #2).
Position Announcement
Position Announcement - Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS)
and Associate or Full Professor
Search #7133
Position: Director for the Center for the Study of Women in Society and tenured associate or full professor. Three-year renewable appointment as CSWS Director beginning as early as September 2008. The Director’s academic appointment will be .5 FTE in CSWS and .5 FTE in an appropriate department, program, and/or college.
See (http://csws.uoregon.edu/home/intro.shtml) for full description of CSWS, a multidisciplinary research center that generates, supports, and disseminates research on women and gender. As CSWS Director, the successful applicant will administer Center activities in these three areas and pursue an active research agenda. The CSWS Director works closely with an interdisciplinary Executive Committee and 3-5 Center staff. CSWS is supported by an endowment and by funds generated through grants and fundraising and has an annual operating budget of about $600,000.
To date, a list of potential academic tenure-home units includes anthropology; art history; arts and administration; counseling psychology; English, ethnic studies; geography; Germanic languages and literatures; history; journalism and communication; law; planning, public policy, and management; political science, psychology; sociology; women’s and gender studies.
Qualifications: Ph.D. or appropriate terminal degree for your discipline (such as J.D., Ed.D.); evidence of excellence in research and teaching on women and gender; familiarity with the breadth of feminist scholarship and theory; demonstrable appreciation of interdisciplinary scholarship, of interconnections among gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual identity, and of the internationalization of gender research. Significant administrative experience, and/or record of securing support for academic research or programs inside or outside academia preferred.
Applicants should include a letter describing relevant research, teaching, administrative, and funding experience as well as future plans in these areas; curriculum vitae; copies of significant publications; evidence of teaching excellence; names of three people who could provide letters of reference.
Send materials to: CSWS Director Search, 340 Hendricks Hall, University of Oregon 97403-1201.
Review of materials will begin September 24, 2007. Search will remain open until a successful candidate is chosen. Candidates who promote and enhance diversity are strongly desired.
and Associate or Full Professor
Search #7133
Position: Director for the Center for the Study of Women in Society and tenured associate or full professor. Three-year renewable appointment as CSWS Director beginning as early as September 2008. The Director’s academic appointment will be .5 FTE in CSWS and .5 FTE in an appropriate department, program, and/or college.
See (http://csws.uoregon.edu/home/intro.shtml) for full description of CSWS, a multidisciplinary research center that generates, supports, and disseminates research on women and gender. As CSWS Director, the successful applicant will administer Center activities in these three areas and pursue an active research agenda. The CSWS Director works closely with an interdisciplinary Executive Committee and 3-5 Center staff. CSWS is supported by an endowment and by funds generated through grants and fundraising and has an annual operating budget of about $600,000.
To date, a list of potential academic tenure-home units includes anthropology; art history; arts and administration; counseling psychology; English, ethnic studies; geography; Germanic languages and literatures; history; journalism and communication; law; planning, public policy, and management; political science, psychology; sociology; women’s and gender studies.
Qualifications: Ph.D. or appropriate terminal degree for your discipline (such as J.D., Ed.D.); evidence of excellence in research and teaching on women and gender; familiarity with the breadth of feminist scholarship and theory; demonstrable appreciation of interdisciplinary scholarship, of interconnections among gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual identity, and of the internationalization of gender research. Significant administrative experience, and/or record of securing support for academic research or programs inside or outside academia preferred.
Applicants should include a letter describing relevant research, teaching, administrative, and funding experience as well as future plans in these areas; curriculum vitae; copies of significant publications; evidence of teaching excellence; names of three people who could provide letters of reference.
Send materials to: CSWS Director Search, 340 Hendricks Hall, University of Oregon 97403-1201.
Review of materials will begin September 24, 2007. Search will remain open until a successful candidate is chosen. Candidates who promote and enhance diversity are strongly desired.
Friday, April 27, 2007
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Please post calls for papers, chapters, conferences, jobs, or other items of interest to FSD members here.
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Rosa Mikeal Martey
Colorado State University, USA
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Rosa Mikeal Martey
Colorado State University, USA
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