Console-ing Passions and Asian TeeVee

[Abe' Mark Nornes]

I think I posted this once before, but this is currently circulating the
net. It's a call for papers for the main television studies conference. I
thought it was interesting for the way that Asia figures into the call. As
one can see, this event is oriented toward cultural studies approaches so
the Big Themes are a matter of course. However, not that outside of the
"global" and "transnational" tags the only regionally marked items in the
list are Latin America and Asia, and while the former has "media," Asia has
TeeVee. I'm not sure you can make much of this, however, having just gone
through two years of television studies searches at Michigan I can tell you
that there is a surprising amount of work being done on Asian television.
And what struck me about the work I saw was how it was completely
disconnected from Asian film studies //// and by extension how Asian film
studies vigorously avoids its televisual Other. I'm thankful that KineJapan
keeps an eye on the tube. In that spirit, I'll try to find some time in the
next day or two to tell you about the living Mummy in Narita and the
exposure of (oh my!) yarase on the Japanese version of the Jerry Springer
Show.

Markus



Call for Papers

The International Conference on Television, Video and Feminism:
CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS

May 11-14, 2000

University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana

Console-ing Passions seeks proposals on television, video and new media
from feminist perspectives.  Suggested areas include:

labor:  tensions and reconfigurations
global media cultures
new media pedagogy
theory and methodology
history and historiography
feminist ethnography
producers and consumers
race, class and ethnicity
masculinity, femininity and queerness
transnational media economics
activism and resistance
sexuality and identity
tv in Asia
Latin American media
indigenous media practices
women, tv and advertising history
digitextual convergence

Deadline for proposals:  15 November 1999

Submit proposals to:  http:/www.pitt.edu/~cptv

CPTV 2000 Program Committee:  Dianne Brooks, Phebe Chao, Jane Feuer
(Chair), Hilary Radner

University of Notre Dame Host Committee:  Susan Ohmer, Hilary Radner
(Coordinator), Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Ewa Ziarek

Console-ing Passions Board:  Dianne Brooks, Phebe Chao, Jackie Cook, Anna
Everett, Jane Feuer, Mary Beth Haralovich, Michele Hilmes, Margaret
Montgomerie, Chantal Nadeau, Ellen Seiter, Lynn Spigel, Chris Straayer,
Mimi White

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE, REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATIONS
WILL BE POSTED TO THIS LISTSERV.



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Mary Beth Haralovich
Head, Department of Media Arts
College of Fine Arts
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona  85721

520-621-7352 (phone)
520-621-9662 (fax)