Call for Papers
Console-ing Passions, the international conference on television, video, audio, and new media, invites submissions for the 2006 conference to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Dates: May 25-27th, 2006
Conference Location: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee          

Founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions, works to create collegial spaces for new work and scholarship on culture and identity in television and related media, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. Since 1992, Console-ing Passions conferences have featured new research on feminist perspectives, including race and ethnicity, post-colonialism, queer studies, globalization, national identity, fusion genres, the social and cultural insertion of new media, the historical development of media, and an ongoing feminist concern with gender dynamics in the production and consumption of electronic media.

Console-ing Passions’ emphasis on electronic media reflects its mission to provide an alternative scholarly space to those centered on film; papers or projects that include film as part of a larger perspective are welcome but non-film media are the primary focus.

Proposal Submissions:
Individual Papers: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words.

Panels: Please submit a rationale for the panel (3-4 papers) of no more than 150 words, as well as abstracts of 500 words for each paper.

Workshops: Please submit a rationale for the workshop (a series of short, informal presentations on a related topic, meant to encourage discussion), along with individual abstracts of no more than 200 words.

Screenings of video, audio, or new media work: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. 

All submissions must include an email message with the following information: name, affiliation, email address, and telephone number for the author, panel or workshop organizer, or producer/director for screenings.  Email message should also specify the audio/visual materials needed for the presentation.  Please be as specific about a/v needs as possible.

Preferred format for all proposals is PDF (attached to email message). Attachments saved as MS Word files will also be accepted. All identifying information should be omitted from the attachment for the purpose of blind review.

Please submit all proposals to cptv@uwm.edu.

Deadline for receipt of proposals is December 15, 2005.

Please direct all questions about the conference and the submission process to cptv@uwm.edu.  See the Console-ing Passions website:
http://www.cp.commarts.wisc.edu/home/index.htm for more information about Console-ing Passions and the 2006 conference.