CP 2023 online panels
Jessalynn Keller
Dear CP community,
As part of the 2023 Console-ing Passions Conference held at the University of Calgary (https://www.consoleingpassions2023.ca) next week, we are hosting three online panels on Friday, June 23 in order for folks who can’t travel to Calgary to participate in the conference. You do not need to be registered for the conference in order to attend a zoom panel. The online panels are as follows (all times in MST):
Friday, June 23, 2023
Online Panel 1: Representational and Production Politics Across TV and Celebrity Culture
9:30AM - 10:50AM
Chair: Al Marin, University of Miami
Britta Hanson: “The Humor of History: Queer Representation in Period Comedy Series”
Stephanie Herold: “'You Can't Tell This Story Without Abortion:' Television Creators on Narrative Intention and Development of Abortion Stories on their Shows”
Danielle Hipkins: “A Girls' Eye-View: Exploring Italian Girlhood TV Representation Through the Lens of Italian Female Adolescence”
Mairead Casey: “'Hammer Horror!:' Cannibal Capitalism, False Meritocracy, and the Star Persona of Armie Hammer”
Online Panel 2: Sovereign Storytelling & Agential Representations
2:00PM - 3:20PM
Chair: Alora Paulsen Mulvey, University of Calgary
Ian Reilly, Suzanne McCullagh and Michele Forrest: “Exploring the Decolonial through Feminist Reading Group Collaboration”
Cynthia Baron: “Sydney Freeland's Award-Winning Drunktown's Finest (2014): Recognition of Trans Navajo Women On Screen and Off”
Swapnil Rai: “Soap Operas, Populism and Women's Agency: The Case of Indo-Turkey TV Flows”
Victoria Sands: “'It's Brutal Out Here:' Olivia Rodrigo, Tik Tok, and the Emergent Value of a Sour Girlhood”
Online Panel 3: Bad Men and “She-Devils:” Problematizing Gendered Tech and Reactionary Digital Cultures
3:45PM - 5:05PM
Chair: Jacqueline Vickery, University of North Texas
Louise Hill: “'What Colour is Your Bugatti?' Impending the Newest Branch of the Manosphere”
Michael Reinhard: “Parenting a New Moral Panic: Anti-Queer Digital Activism and Reactionary Media Ecologies”
Kathryn Claire Higgins: “Who's Afraid of Trial by Media? Believability, Sexual Violence, and the Digitalization of Doubt”
Milly Gunn: “Voice of the Fembot: An Analysis of the Subservient and Sinister Vocal Depictions of the Gynoid in Sci-Fi Games”
If you are interested in attending the online panels, please register on our website: https://www.consoleingpassions2023.ca/virtual-panels and you’ll be sent the zoom link prior to the conference.
Thank you!
Jessalynn
Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies