Call for Proposals for a preconstituted panel on Girls' Media Studies at Console-ing Passions: A Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism April 24-26, 2008 in Santa Barbara, CA The objective of this panel is to broaden and complicate feminist media studies by foregrounding girl-centered research. Special consideration will be given to historical studies of girls' media culture, as well as projects dealing with girls' media production (films, websites, radio programs) and girls' uses of digital media technologies (cell phones, MP3 players, social networking sites). Interested scholars should send a brief proposal (~250 words) to Mary Kearney ([log in to unmask]) by October 1, 2007. Selections for the panel will be made by October 8, leaving time to develop full proposals for the final November 1 deadline. For more information about Console-ing Passions and the 2008 conference, visit: http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html -- Mary Celeste Kearney Assistant Professor Department of Radio-Television-Film The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station A0800 Austin, TX 78712-0108 Office: 512-475-8648 Fax: 512-471-4077 [log in to unmask] http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/kearney ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html