International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism
Atlanta, Georgia
June 27-29, 2025
Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster feminist scholarship on issues of television, culture and identity. The original board included Julie D’Acci, Jane Feuer, Mary Beth Haralovich, Lauren Rabinowitz and Lynn Spigel. Console-ing Passions is not a membership organization but is instead comprised of a board of scholars whose interests converge around the study of media.
Call for Papers
In the contemporary media landscape, films are remade, television shows rebooted, videogames reimagined in a seemingly endless loop of reproduction. Reproduction, in the form of AI, was also at the heart of recent media industry labor actions. While the concept of reproduction has various meanings across media production, programming, and technology, it is foundationally about efforts to extend lineages. At Console-ing Passions 2025, we hope to initiate conversations about reproduction as a politics of agency, authorship, autonomy and value-creation.
The conference will take place on June 27-29, 2025 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, a city that is home to artists, activists, and leaders who strive to live up to the legacy of the city as “the cradle of civil rights.” We invite presentations that broadly consider the concept of reproduction as it applies to texts, economic systems, and labor practices. We welcome approaches that consider the role of civil rights, political action and labor movements in both the U.S. and a global context in relation to this topic.
The 2025 Conference Organizing Committee in the School of Film, Media & Theatre at Georgia State University invites proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted panels that consider the conference theme of Reproduction and any other aspects of television, video, audio or new media through gender, sexuality, race and/or other systems of inequality.
Submissions Due January 17
Notifications begin January 31
Registration Rates
| Students | $75 |
| Conference Presenters | $125 |
| General Participants | $150 |
Registration fees include entrance to all sessions and events from June 27-29. All rates are in USD.
Conference presenters must register by June 1st, 2025
General participants may register until June 26th, 2025
Cancellation Policies
Cancellation requests must be sent to [email protected] no later than April 15, 2025, to be eligible for a full refund. Requests received between April 16 – June 15 will be eligible for a 50% refund. No refunds will be issued after June 15, 2025.
Georgia State University
Established in 1913, Georgia State University’s Atlanta campus sits in the heart of downtown. Enrolling one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation, the university provides associate-to-graduate-degree-level educational opportunities for tens of thousands.
Conference Location – Student Center East
Student Center East is located at 55 Gilmer St SE, Atlanta, GA 30303. The conference rooms can be found in the ballroom and on the 2nd floor. Signage will direct you to each location.
Parking
The most convenient parking is at M Deck. Parking services has been notified about the conference and informs us that conference attendees can use the lot.
Bishnupriya Ghosh
Professor of English and Global Studies
University of California Santa Barbara
Bishnupriya Ghosh teaches global media cultures, environmental media, and critical public health studies in English and Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her early writings on global media cultures include When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke UP, 2011) while her current research on media and risk is published in the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge, 2020) and in The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (Duke UP, 2023).
The conference is securing room rates at two nearby hotels, the Residence Inn and the Ellis.
Additionally, Student Housing will be available at University Commons for those that are interested we anticipate that the cost will be less than $100 for the two nights (still completing the contract).
Coming in Spring of 2025
Thank you to…
- Logo designer: Golnoush Behmanesh
- GSU-Console-ing Passions Conference committee
- Console-ing Passions Board
- GSU College of the Arts
- Film, Media & Theatre’s Console-ing Passions Graduate Assistant: Jeffrey Peterson
- Film, Media & Theatre’s PhD students
- GSU’s School of Film, Media & Theatre staff: Jess Barish and Kelly Williams
Contact Us
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 404-413-5614