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AdaCamp is a conference dedicated to increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture: open source software, Wikipedia-related projects, open data, open geo, fan fiction, remix culture, and more. AdaCamp brings women together to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to …

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CFP: Black Sexual Economies: Transforming Black Sexualities Research

November 10, 2012 – 11:40 am |

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

September 22, 2012 – 10:26 am |

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

September 18, 2012 – 5:44 am |

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

August 27, 2012 – 7:40 am |

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

August 6, 2012 – 6:50 am |

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 …

CFP: Television for Women: An International Conference

June 19, 2012 – 11:43 am |

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

June 11, 2012 – 6:05 pm | One Comment

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, …

New CFP: In Media Res

April 9, 2012 – 10:08 am |

Happy Monday, Fembot-ers! Check out In Media Res’ current call for submissions here and pasted below.

Google Summer of Code

March 5, 2012 – 8:39 am |

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 …

Console-ing Passions 2012

December 14, 2011 – 7:00 am |

CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TELEVISION, VIDEO,
AUDIO, NEW MEDIA, AND FEMINISM
CELEBRATING OUR 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
July 19-22, 2012, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists in 1989,
Console-ing Passions held its first official conference at the
University of Iowa in 1992. Since that time, the conference has
created …

“I Want My Paranormal TV” CFP

November 15, 2011 – 7:07 pm |

I want to share an exciting call for papers written by Fembot affiliate, Drew Beard, for the 2012 Console-ing Passions conference that will be held in Boston.
 
“I Want my Paranormal TV”: Negotiations with the Dead (and Undead) on the Smaller Screen
            Annette Hill, in Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular …

Academic Labor in Communication Studies — Call for Papers, Commentary and Multimedia (deadline: 1 June 2011)

April 6, 2011 – 11:45 am | One Comment

I'm doing a special forum on academic labor politics.  Ideally we'll have contributions for people at all levels of the field from administrators to graduate labor activists.  Here's the CFP: http://sterneworks.org/2011/04/academic-labor-in-communication-studies-call-for-papers-commentary-and-multimedia-deadline-1-june-2011