Articles in Professional Potpourri
CFP: Black Sexual Economies: Transforming Black Sexualities Research
Call for Papers
Black Sexual Economies: Transforming Black Sexualities Research
Black sexualities have been constructed as a site of sexual panic and pathology in U.S. culture. Viewed as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation, Black sexualities are intimately linked to and regulated by political and socioeconomic …
CFP: Radio Conference
It’d be great to see a wide feminist turn out from media and tech studies alike for this conference. Information below!
Call for Researchers
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES
ST. AUGUSTINE, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, WEST INDIES
INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
ST. AUGUSTINE UNIT
Telephone: (868) 662-2002 ext. 83573/82533 | Fax: (868) 662-2002 ext. 83572 | Email: igds@sta.uwi.edu
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Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean: Women’s Understandings of Politics, Experiences of Political Contestation and the …
CFP, Feminist Game Studies – Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
Issue 2: Feminist Game Studies
Editor: Nina Huntemann, Suffolk University
(nhuntemann@suffolk.edu)
Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2012
Word length: 5000-9000 words
Publication Date: April 2013
Despite worldwide popularity across an increasingly diverse population of players, video and computer games continue to be defined, discussed, debated and derided …
CFP for SCMS on Paranormal Media
Call for Papers for Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Annual Conference, 2013
Paranormal Media
Annette Hill, in Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in
Popular Culture, observes that in recent years, paranormal beliefs
have entered the mainstream. Although the paranormal had a presence
in popular culture and various media forms for centuries, the past
decade …
On Leaving Academia
Post worth reading about author’s decision to leave tenured position.
Top of the list: family-life balance.
CFP: Television for Women: An International Conference
Television for Women: An International Conference: Call for Papers – a reminder
Where: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
When: 15th-17th May 2013
Keynote Speakers: Charlotte Brunsdon, Christine Geraghty, Kathleen Karlyn and Lynn Spigel
At the culmination of the AHRC-funded project, A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-89, the project team (Dr. Mary …
Mid-Atlantic Non-Tenure Track Faculty Conference
Mid-Atlantic Non-Tenure
Track Faculty Conference
“The New Faculty Majority:
Teaching, Scholarship,
and Creativity in the Age of Contingency”
October 2012, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (exact date and location TBA)
This conference will
be an opportunity to think more deeply about the state of contingent, non-tenure-stream faculty: the intellectual work we engage in and the struggle to survive as committed teachers, …
Dissertation Prospectus: Chelsea Bullock (University of Oregon, 2012)
“From Big Shrimpin’ to Big Rich Texas: Laboring Gender in Workplace and Intimate Reality Programming”
7 March 2012
Mapping the Field of Reality Television
Many critics trace reality television’s beginnings to the television documentary “An American Family,” which premiered on PBS in 1973[1]. Like other genres of media, the shape and definitions of …
Dissertation Prospectus: Phoebe Bronstein (University of Oregon, 2011)
Televising the South: Race, Gender, and Place in TV Dramas
Starting with Miami Vice in 1984, this dissertation focuses on the emergence of the urban South in primetime dramas. While Miami Vice (1984-1990) ushered in the end of a moratorium on televisual representations of the South in primetime dramas, it is …
New CFP: In Media Res
Happy Monday, Fembot-ers! Check out In Media Res’ current call for submissions here and pasted below.
Google Summer of Code
Heya. Check out Geek Feminism‘s post on Google’s Summer of Code. They’re dead right that we need to get more women (and people of color) into this pipeline (as a cool guy I met who works on games for Microsoft put it, “Whoever writes the code owns the representations”). So …
