CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS: TV, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, FEMINISM 2001: Trans World Airwaves Console-ing Passions 2001 welcomes proposals for papers, panels, and workshops on television, video and feminism. The changing nature of television since the advent of digital media technologies and the emerging global economy have profound ramifications for contemporary studies of the televisual text. The fact that this year's conference will take place in Bristol, England will provide a unique opportunity to explore these important issues outside of an American context. Submit your work to what promises to be an exciting intercultural exchange in the new millennium. Proposals should foreground questions of sexual, national, racial and other cultural differences including feminist perspectives on: * Transnational Histories: Comparative Cultural Approaches to Broadcasting History * Feminism and Public Sphere Media Theory * The V-Chip / Censorship and Regulation * Euro-American Exchanges: Exploring the Neo-Reality TV Craze * Post-television, Digital Media and the Convergence Industries * Web-TV and TIVO: Charting the Global-Media Paradigm Shift * Is Video Art Making a Comeback? * Archiving and Preserving Video Texts * International Programs and American Audiences * American Programs and Global Audiences * TV and the Postcolonial Subject \ Viewing Race * Commercialism vs. Public Service Systems and the Female Audience * TV Wars: Cable vs. Satellite TV * Digital Media Arts and TV * Other ideas and topics are encouraged CALL FOR PAPERS 10th CPTV Conference University of Bristol, UK Bristol, England July 5-8, 2001 Send 500-word proposals for papers, panels, and workshops to the address below: <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Drama/CPUK/ > Attn: Isobel Pierce University of Bristol Department of Drama, Theatre, Film, Television Bristol, England BS8 1TH Proposals Due by January 31, 2001 Provide a separate proposal for each paper on the panel or workshop. Do not submit papers also delivered at SCS, SCA, or Screen Studies. Console-ing Passions requests first consideration to publish papers accepted for the conference. 2001 Host Committee: Christine Geraghty, Margaret Montgomerie, Gillian Swanson, Yvonne Tasker, Janet Thumim 2001 Program Committee: Anna Everett, Jane Feuer (Chair), Chris Straayer, Janet Thumim Console-ing Passions Board: Dianne Brooks (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Phebe Chao (independent scholar) Jackie Cook (University of South Australia) Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara) Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh) Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona) Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Margaret Montgomerie (University of Derby) Chantal Nadeau (Concordia University) Lynn Spigel (University of Southern California) Chris Straayer (New York University) ---- Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite Telecommunication & Film/University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]