CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS: TELEVISION, VIDEO AND FEMINIST STUDIES April 3 & 4, 1992 University of Iowa - Iowa City CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS is the first annual conference on television, video and feminist studies. It welcomes papers that foreground questions of sexual and other cultural differences. Possible areas include feminist perspectives on: TV and lesbian studies; TV and gay studies; TV and video history; TV and constructions of ethnicity, race and sexuality; TV, video and postmodernism; TV and "girl" subcultures; media pedagogy; international TV; policy and regulation; TV's production of social knowledge. 250 word proposals are due November 1, 1991 and copies should be sent to the following two addresses: Lauren Rabinovitz, Department of Communication Studies; 105 Communication Studies Bldg.; University of Iowa; Iowa City 52242 Mary Beth Haralovich, Dept. of Media Arts; Modern Language Bldg; University of Arizona; Tucson, AZ 85721 The proposals will be selected by the program committee: Julie D'Acci (University of Wisconsin); Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburg); Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona); Lauren Rabinovitz (University of Iowa); Lynn Spiegel (University of Wisconson). For further information contact Lauren Rabinovitz (319) 355-0579 %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*% CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION INQUIRY The _Journal_of_Communication_Inquiry_ is currently seeking manuscripts that emphasize interdisciplinary inquiry into communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural and historical perspectives. Such perspectives imply that an understanding of these phenomena cannot arise solely out of a narrowly focused analysis. Thus, manuscripts should emphasize philosophical, evaluative, empirical, legal, historical, and/or critical inquiry into relationships between mass communication and society across time and culture. The journal also invites contributions of articles, book reviews and review articles from all scholars. Submission deadline: November 1, 1991 (see details below) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION INQUIRY Cultural Materialism: Essays on Culture as a Practice This theme issue of the journal will address communication found in newspapers, advertisements, novels, visual arts, music, etc., as cultural practices--recorded communication of a particular place and time, rather than as individual decontextualized artifacts. Papers submitted for this issue should include a consideration of the overt and covert relations between cultural practices, and the political, social, ideological, and economic system in which they exist. Submission deadline: January 15, 1992 (see details below) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit three copies of your paper to the address below. Maximum length is 7000 words, including notes and references. Manuscripts should have a detachable title page listing the author's name, address and phone number. The title--but not the identification of the author--should also appear on the first page. Other than on the first page, the author's name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript. The journal style is outlined in "Parenthetical References and Reference Lists," in Kate L. Turabian, _A_Manual_for_Writers_, 5th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 111-9. Endnotes (used for explanatory purposes only) should be held to a minimum. Similar citation styles (such as APA) and other styles in earlier editions of Turabian or of this journal are not acceptable. THE AUTHOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING HER OR HIS WORK CONFORM TO STYLE REQUIREMENTS. Please direct queries, subscriptions, requests for previous issues, and all manuscripts to: Editor _Journal_of_Communication_Inquiry_ 205 Communication Center School of Journalism and Mass Communication The University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52242 (319) 335-5821 Recent issues: 10:1 MTV 10:2 Stuart Hall 10:3 General Issue: Texts and Representations 11:1 The Feminist Issue 11:2 Ideology Around the Dial 12:1 Cultural Studies in South Africa: A Formal Attempt at Praxis 12:2 History, Historiography, and Communication: Critical and Cultural Perspectives 13:1 The Weimar Republic and Popular Culture 13:2 Cultural Studies: Ethnography 14:1 Minority images in Advertising 14:2 Visual Communication 15:1 Freedom of Expression and the First Amendment 15:2 Another Politically UNCorrect Issue %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%