Conference: Console-ing Passions

The Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism will take place June 16 to June 18, 2016. The conference will include a keynote address on globalization and feminist media studies by Anikó Imre, associate professor and chair of the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. A plenary Session will featuring emerging scholars: * Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern University * Jessalynn Keller, University of East Anglia * Jorie Lagerwey, University College, Dublin * Quinn Miller, University of Oregon * Kristen Warner, University of Alabama

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 scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. The first Console-ing Passions conference was held at the University of Iowa in 1992. Since then, 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 scholars of media generally. Sponsored by the Center for Creative Computing, the Center for Social Concerns, the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of American Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, the Department of English, the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, the Gender Studies Program, the Graduate School, the Institute for Latino Studies, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Liu Institute for Asian Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Office for Undergraduate Studies, and the College of Arts and Letters. For details, please visit "console-ingpassions.org":http://www.console-ingpassions.org/conf-nd.