Console-ing Passions

An International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism

April 24th - 26th, 2008

Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists to create a space to present work and foster scholarship in issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. Since then, a series of conferences has brought together work from a wide scope of interests to encourage television research in the spheres of race, gender, and identity. More than 200 scholars from around the world are expected to attend this year’s conference at UC Santa Barbara. Hosts for the conference are UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Film and Media Studies and the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media.

Complete conference information at: http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html

Thursday, April 24

Viral Media and the Politics of Media for Social Change
5:00-6:30 p.m., Corwin Pavilion
This panel will investigate uses of the Internet as a tool for digital resistance and its role in the upcoming presidential elections.

Speakers:

Anna Everett, UC Santa Barbara (Chair)

Jane Shattuc, Emerson College

Rita Raley, UC Santa Barbara

Megan Boler, Univ. of Toronto

Friday, April 25

Workshop: Sex Work in Industry and Academe
3:00-4:30 p.m. Corwin Pavilion

This panel discussion features women who make pornography in conversation with women who study pornography. The panel will address questions such as why it is important to study porn, whether women in porn see themselves as feminists, can mainstream porn be transformed to offer a wider range of non-stereotyped gender-racial sexual representations, and how can academic researchers do a better job of understanding porn and the women involved.

Chair:

Constance Penley, Professor of Film and Media Studies, and Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media

Speakers:

Mireille Miller-Young, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Associate Professor of Asian-American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Tristan Taormino, author, columnist, editor, sex educator, adult film producer
Sinnamon Love, Afrogeek web mistress, performer, producer, agent, writer, porn diva

UC Santa Barbara Alumni Discuss Careers in the Entertainment Industry
5:00-6:50, Girvetz 1004

A panel of UC Santa Barbara alumni will discuss their career paths in the entertainment industry and provide tips for students and audience members on how to succeed in these competitive fields.

The panel is offered as part of Film and Media Studies 54: Hollywood: Anatomy of an Industry.

Moderators:

Sage Parker-Lang Actor/Lecturer

Perry Lang, Actor/Writer/Director.

Panel Members:

Steve Elzer, Senior Vice President, Media Relations, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group

Georgia Packard, President, Camera Operator’s Union

Jamie Painter Young, National Editor-in-Chief, Back Stage

Mark Panik, Editor, CBS Promotions

Jeremy Platt, Talent Manager

Saturday, April 26

Working on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Corwin Pavilion
10:30-12:00, Corwin Pavilion
Producers and writers from the television show will be on hand to discuss the processes and challenges involved in creating a weekly network television drama.

Panel Members:

Toni Graphia, Co-Executive Producer/Writer
John Enbom, Supervising Producer/Writer
Ashley Miller, Co-Producer/Writer
Ian Goldberg, Staff Writer
Denise The, Staff Writer

The State of the Industry
2:00-4:00, Corwin Pavilion

Entertainment industry leaders will discuss emerging trends that are transforming the television industry, including new programming forms, the impact of new technologies, and the future of the medium.

Moderator:

Constance Penley, Professor of Film and Media Studies, and Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media

Panel Members:

Dana Walden, Chair of Twentieth Century Fox Television
Toni Graphia, TV Writer/Producer for The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Anne Flett-Giordano, TV Writer/Producer of Desperate Housewives and Frasier
Toby Miller, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside

Presented by:

The University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies and the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media.

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