Console-ing Passions 2024
Bloomington, Indiana
June 20 – 22, 2024
Bloomington, Indiana
June 20 – 22, 2024
9:00 – 11:00 am: Registration
IU Media School, Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Opening Keynote Performance by Beatrice Capote
“Oshun’s Energy: An Immersive Embodied Performance Perspective”
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue
12:30 – 2:00 pm: Lunch on your own
(recommendations available here)
All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Panel A1: Social Justice/Media
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Stefania Marghitu (University of Alabama)
Panel A2: Political Resistance through Media
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Christopher Pullen (Bournemouth University)
Panel A3: Abortion Onscreen: Television’s Role in Making and Breaking Abortion Taboos
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair: Stephanie Herold (University of California San Francisco)
Panel A4: Love and Romance
Mary Beth Haralovich Room (Franklin Hall, Room 212)
Chair: Suzanne Leonard (Simmons University)
Panel A5: Practices and Technologies of Queer Community Building, Identity Exploration, and Intimacy
Jane Feuer Room (Franklin Hall, Room 210)
Chair: Rory Barron (Indiana University)
Jackson McLaren (Temple University), “The Rise of the Non-Male Streamer: An Ethnography of Gender in Live-Streaming”
David Kocik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Meet You at the Crossroads: Gender, Queerness, and Orientalism in Fan Communities of Japanese Games”
Caitlin Joyce (Temple University), “Constructing Queer Identity in the Digital Realm: BL Fan Communities on Discord”
All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Panel B6: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of ChatGPT in the Media Studies Classroom
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Anna Froula (East Carolina University)
Panel B7: Sexual Violence and Gender
Jane Feuer Room (Franklin Hall, Room 210)
Chair: Sarah Lawler (Indiana University)
Panel B8: Reproductive Justice
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Jennifer E. Maher (Indiana University)
Panel B9: Women’s Visions On- and Offscreen
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair: Ryan Powell (Indiana University)
Panel B10: Adaptations andAfterlives
Mary Beth Haralovich Room (Franklin Hall, 212)
Chair: Matthew Konerth (University of Denver)
6:00 – 7:30pm: Day One Keynote Lecture by Misha Kavka
“The Stickiness of Authenticity in the Age of ‘Dis-’, or Five Reasons Why We Should Stop Believin’ (But Won’t)”
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Reception to follow at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater
Dinner on your own
(recommendations available here)