Call for Papers: 2003 American Studies Association Annual Meeting 16-19 October 2003 Hartford, Connecticut Viewer Discretion Advised: Violence and Belonging on US Television Abstracts invited for a talk and/or online session investigating the ASA's general conference theme, "Violence and Belonging," in popular television and video in the US. Contributions may address a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, suggested, threatened, or perpetrated violence and televisual representations of race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, or nationality; representations of violent sex, S/M, sex clubs, or strip shows; bloody bodies and news or documentary coverage of medical procedures; belonging and exclusion with respect to genre, advertising, station or network affiliation, and/or community standards; blurrings of fiction and non-fiction in made-for-television movies about infamous crimes; fantasies of domestic bliss and spectacles of domestic violence on reality, news, court TV, or trash talk shows; non-normative reproduction, genocide, and stylized violence against marked or marginalized bodies or species on science fiction; special coverage of political activism, community protests, or rioting with respect to disenfranchisement; special reports and live local, national, or cable news coverage of purported terrorists, snipers, border-crossers, criminals-on-the-run, and/or other "undesirable elements"; sitcoms and laughable urban crime; US nationalisms and violent sunderings of margins and centers on public television. I welcome a broad range of disciplinary perspectives and methodological paradigms dealing with any aspect of television and video. Send 500-word abstracts and one-page cvs electronically to Nancy San Martín at [log in to unmask] by 7 January 2003. All conference participants must register for the ASA's annual meeting and be members of the ASA or of an affiliated international American Studies Association. Please distribute widely. ===== Nancy San Martín [log in to unmask] Anger is my religion. -- Miss Parker, The Pretender __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite