Conference Organizers: Maeve Connolly, Kylie Jarrett, Jorie Lagerwey, Diane Negra, Maria Pramaggiore, Emma Radley, and Stephanie Rains
Date: June 18-20, 2015
Venue: Dublin
Deadline for Abstracts: October 1, 2014
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, Console-ing Passions has become the leading international scholarly network for feminist research in television, video, audio, and new media.
23 years after the group’s founding, we find ourselves in a dramatically different media landscape, as well as a world in which the meanings of feminism, postfeminism, and the intersections of feminism with race, sexuality, and class are hotly contested in the academy, in the popular press, and in contemporary media representations. Console-ing Passions 2015 asks, Continue reading