Call for Responses: Flow Conference 2012 (7/13/12; 11/1/12-11/3/12)

From: Michael Rennett <[email protected]>

Call for Responses
FLOW Conference 2012
November 1-3, 2012
The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.flowtv.org/

Deadline for 150-word abstracts:  July 13, 2012

Flow Conference 2012 is the 4th biannual conference for FlowTV.org, a
University of Texas at Austin graduate student-run, online academic journal
focusing on television and media culture.

The 2012 Flow Conference will resemble traditional academic meetings in
name only: there will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions.
Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized
around a discussion question on contemporary issues in television/media
culture and scholarship. Respondents are asked to submit a brief abstract
addressing one of the roundtable questions listed on our conference
website:  http://www.flowtv.org/conference/.

Some roundtable topics include:
Netflix as Television Producer
Teaching TV
Representation in the Post-Network Era
Anti-Fandom in the Digital Age
Micro Politics in a Digital World
Teaching Comics Studies
Queer Media Studies' Futures
The Deracialization of Global Television Studies
Minority Television Culture and Post-Racial Ideologies
"Management" in Culture Industries
2011-2012's Television Gender Wars
Sports Media and Celebrity
Original Scripted Series and Cable Network (Re)Branding

Please visit the conference website at
http://flowtv.org/conference/call-for-responses/ for more details.

We especially encourage responses that address issues of race, class,
gender, sexuality, age, and ability, as well as international perspectives.

To submit a response send a 150-word abstract to
[email protected] by July 13, 2012. In the subject line of the
email, please put the title of the roundtable to which you are responding.
Be sure to also include your full name, e-mail address, and affiliation in
the body of the e-mail. Please submit a response to only one roundtable
topic. However, we imagine that some individuals will have interest in
several roundtable discussions and thus difficulty choosing between them.
We want to accommodate as many people and their preferences as possible.
Therefore, it would be helpful for us to know about those individuals who
are willing to participate in another roundtable if too many responses are
submitted for their original question.

We will inform participants of acceptance via e-mail by early August. Upon
acceptance, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800
word position paper, due in October 2012.

In an effort to include a wide range of participants (i.e., scholars, fans,
critics, activists, policymakers, industry professionals, etc.), we
encourage wide distribution of this call.

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at
[email protected].

Flow Conference 2012 Organizing Committee
Department of Radio-Television-Film
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.flowtv.org/conference/
[email protected]