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Date:          Sun, 11 Oct 1998 10:04:29 -0500
From:          James P Castonguay <jamesp@CSD.UWM.EDU>
Subject:       CFP: Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge

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Call for Papers
Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge
a conference at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

April 29 - May 1, 1999

This conference will focus on the production of knowledge within global
media culture.  It will consider not only how scholars have come to know
media culture, but how media and mass cultural forms have themselves
instituted various forms of knowledge.  It will explore how print, film,
television, and electronic cultures have generated particular ways of
knowing, with their own epistemological and pedagogical practices,
standards of evidence and authority, operations of perception and
cognition, truths and blindspots.  How have popular media forms and genres
shaped our ways of thinking, including our ways of thinking about mass
culture itself?  To frame an encounter between academic knowledges of
mass-mediated culture and media culture's own epistemological objects and
procedures--to consider not just how we think about popular media but how
we think through them--the conference will bring together those who study
popular narratives and genres, film, television, and new technologies with
media practitioners in those fields (film and video producers, interactive
media artists, web and video game designers).

Papers and presentations may consider such topics as: constructions of
truth, identity, and experience within media and technological forms; the
creation and documentation of various realisms and realities; mediated
perceptions of space and time, history and community; relations between
global and local knowledge; shifts in information access, storage, and
circulation; changing literacies and new forms of "common sense";
encounters between media and academic genres; the use of popular forms as
models for scholarly work; the implications of thinking through various
genres (such as the documentary, the detective narrative, science fiction,
melodrama, comedy) and voices (sensationalized, personalized, paranoid,
networked); the drive toward and/or refusal of knowledge within mass
cultural texts; the production (or over-production) of knowledge in such
things as conspiracy and millennial theorizing; media pedagogies and
philosophies.

Invited speakers:
Mark Amerika (novelist/digital artist, Boulder, CO)
Susan Burgess (political science/women's studies, UW-Milwaukee)
Lawrence Cohen (anthropology, UC, Berkeley)
John DiStefano (film/video producer, School of the Art Institute
     of Chicago)
Mary Ann Doane (film studies, Brown Univ.)
Bernard Gendron (philosophy/music studies, UW-Milwaukee)
Herman Gray (sociology/African-American studies/media studies, UC,
     Santa Cruz)
Todd Haynes (filmmaker, New York City)
Lynne Joyrich (film/television studies, UW-Milwaukee)
Robert McChesney (media studies, UW-Madison)
Patricia Mellencamp (film/television studies, UW-Milwaukee)
Constance Penley (film/television studies, UC, Santa Barbara)
Stephen Wilson (art/new technologies, San Francisco State Univ.)
Mimi White (television studies, Northwestern Univ.)
Mark Williams (film/television studies, Dartmouth)

Deadline for Submissions:  December 15, 1998
Please send proposals (no more than 3 pages) and vita to:
Lynne Joyrich, Conference Organizer
Center for Twentieth Century Studies
P.O. Box 413
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI  53201  USA
Phone: (414) 229-4141; Fax: (414) 229-5964; email: ctr20cs@uwm.edu;
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/20th.

Selected papers from the conference will be considered for inclusion in a
book planned for publication in the Center series Theories of Contemporary
Culture with Indiana University Press.
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