Another conference [1]! This time I'm following in my workshop-mate Sam Ford's footsteps [2]. Friends still bolded. I may try to flit between panels when they're scheduled against each other.

Thursday, April 24 - 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SESSION 1
1 Hee Hee Hee: TV Comedy
Laura Christian, UC Santa Cruz, “Showbiz and the Limits of Self-Reflexivity: Tina Fey’s 30 Rock”
Joanne Morreale, Northeastern Univ., “The Comeback and the Plight of the Female Comic”
Amy Shore, SUNY Oswego, “‘That’s What She Said’: Mapping Urban Economies through Gender and Sexuality in The Office”
Racquel Gates, Northwestern Univ., “Whitley/Dwayne/Kinu: Crossracial Performance and Racial Triangulation in A Different World”


4 Pornography from Gonzo to Hardcore
Leigh Goldstein, UT-Austin, “Scrunchies, Braces and Throat Fucking: Performances of Girlhood in Gonzo Porn,”
Aimee-Marie Dorsten, Wilson College, “Vietnam’s Political Economy: the VNCP Goes ‘Hard Core’ for Entrepreneurial Pornography”
Naima Lowe, Independent scholar/artist, “Pushing Porno’s Buttons: Spectator Pleasures in Hard-Core Narrative Pornography”
Susanna Paasonen, Univ. of Helsinki, “The Beast Within: Animals as Intimate Others in Online Pornography”


Thursday, April 24 - 1:30-3:00 p.m. SESSION 2
2 Queer Pleasures and Violations in Fiction and non-Fiction TV
Deborah E. R. Hanan, USC, “Harvesting Transgressive, Normative, and Bourgeois Pleasures in Showtime’s The L-Word”
Marusya Bociurkiw, Ryerson Univ., “Sexy, Racy: Discourses of Race and Passing on The L Word”
Eve Ng, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst, “Violation Narratives of Queer Female Characters”
Julia Himberg, USC, “Performing Cultural Citizenship”


4 Intimate Ethical Mediations
David Crane, UC Santa Cruz, “Proper Closeness?: Intimations of Communications”
Aniko Imre, USC, “National Intimacy: Social Networking Sites and Post-Socialist Public Culture”
Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez, UC Santa Cruz, “Melancholia, Participatory Culture, and Intimacy in Marginalized Digital Productions”
Theresa M. Senft, University of East London, “Familiar Strangers, Strange Familiarities, or Intimacy and Ethics: On the Web and off It”

Thursday, April 24 - 3:15-4:45 SESSION 3
naptime?


Thursday, April 24 - 5:00-6:30 SESSION 4
3 Queer Boys on the Side: Desire, Media, and Female Fandom in the Twenty-First Century
Lyndsay Brown, Univ. of Florida, “Slashing Celebrities, Slashing Theory: How Real Person Slash and Vids Lead to Deleuze/Lacan”
Catherine Tosenberger, Univ. of Florida, “The Epic Love Story of Sam and Dean: Supernatural, Queer Readings, and the Romance of Incestuous Fanfiction”
Andrea Wood, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Choose your own Queer Erotic Adventure: Boys’ Love Dating-Sims and the Politics of Play in Sexually Interactive PC Games”

Friday, April 25 - 8:30-10:00 a.m. SESSION 1
2 Televisual (In)visibilities: Sexuality, Gender, and Race
Melanie E.S. Kohnen, Brown University, “Whiteness as Screen: Race, Sexuality and the “Explosion of Gay Visibility”
Alexis Lothian, USC, “Televisual Transformation and its Discontents:
Slash Fan Fiction: ‘Queer Female Space’ and Race”
Louisa Stein, San Diego State University, “Sons and Brothers: Sexuality and Race in Supernatural Fan Videos”
Joe Wlodarz, Univ. of Western Ontario, “Tell Me If You Can: Masculinity and Queer (In)Visibility in American Network Television of the 1970s”

[meaning that WON'T be able to attend these other delightful panels:]

3 Feminist Responses to Slash
Conseula Francis and Alison Piepmeier, College of Charleston, “Slash, Academia, and What Happens When Straight Women Start Flirting with Each Other”
Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ., "'A Room of Our Own:' How F/F Slash Queers Female Space"
Anna Feigenbaum, McGill Univ. , “If Adorno Could Hear Us Now: (Re)writing the Romance/ Porn Divide in ‘Boy Band’ Slash Fiction”

4 How New Media Reconfigures Public and Educational Space
Chuck Tryon, Fayetteville State University, “Elections 2.0: Political Participation, Virtual Citizenship, and Web Videos”
Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College, “Learning from Learning from YouTube”
L.S. Kim, UC Santa Cruz, “It is Good to be Angry: SmartMobs and angryasianman.com”
Julia Lesage, Jumpcut, “Audio Podcasting Now”

5 Studies of Battlestar Galactica
Heather Hendershot, Queens College, CUNY, “‘You Have Your Pound of Flesh’: Religion, Battlestar Galactica, and Television’s Sacred/Secular Fetuses”
Carol Stabile, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “‘Bringing Home the Cat’: Gender, Violence, and Militarism in Battlestar Galactica”
Allison McCracken, DePaul University, “‘Say Goodnight Mrs. Ron’: Ronald D. Moore and the Gender Politics of the Battlestar Galactica Podcast”
Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi,“Love Fraks Everything: Masculine Melodrama and Battlestar Galactica’s Textual Flow”


Friday, April 25 - 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SESSION 2
5 Workshop: Gendered Fan Labor in New Media and Old
Julie Levin Russo, Brown University, “Labors of Love: Who Charts The L Word?”
Sam Ford, MIT, “Outside the Target Demographic: Surplus Audiences in Wrestling and Soaps”
Suzanne Scott, USC, “From Filk to Wrock: Performance, Professionalism, and Power in Harry Potter Wizard”
Bob Rehak, Swarthmore College, “Boys, Blueprints, and Boundaries: Star Trek’s Hardware Fandom”
Louisa Stein, San Diego State Univ., “Videogames, Fan Creativity, and Gendered Authorship: Complicating Dichotomies”


[meaning that WON'T be able to attend these other delightful panels, which are against my own workshop:]

2 “Most Wired” in a Globalized Arena: Asian Americans, Asia, and New Media
Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, “‘I Bet Half of these People are Koreans’: Fan-Produced World of Warcraft Machinima and the Domestication of Asian Labor in Multiplayer Online Games”
Greta Niu, Univ. of Rochester, “‘Most Wired’ and Wire Work: Model Minorities, Chinese Cinema, Console Games”
Abigail Derecho, Northwestern, “Performing Transnational Anti-Fandom: Filipinos Protesting American Idol, The Daily Show, and Desperate Housewives Online”
LeiLani Nishime, Sonoma State Univ., “Asian Lovebots and Cyborg War Brides: Race, Miscegenation, and Battlestar Galactica”

3 The Big Queer Comedy Panel
Margo Miller, Northwestern University, “Is There a Queer Closet?: Quality Sitcom Straight Men and the Question of Self-Identification”
Lucas Hilderbrand, UCI, “Queens and Queeny: Ugly Betty’s Dual Demos and Modes”
Candace Moore, UCLA, “Bunny-eared TV: Making Things Perfectly Sketch”
Hye Jin Lee, Univ. of Iowa, “Thank you for Being (More Than) A Friend: A Queer Reading of The Golden Girls”

4 Legitimating Television
Derek Kompare, Southern Methodist University, “What is a Showrunner?: Considering Post-Network Television Authorship”
Michael Kackman, University of Texas at Austin, “Quality Television, Lost and Found: Gender & Cultural Value in Formalist Television Studies”
Michael Z. Newman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Upscaling Television Aesthetics and the Cinematic Analogy”
Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “From Domestic Appliance to High-Tech Gadget: Media Convergence and the Masculinization of Television Technology”


Friday, April 25 - 1:15-2:45 SESSION 3
decompress?

Friday, April 25 - 3:00-4:30 SESSION 4
Lynne Joyrich, Brown Univ., “The Magic of Television: Thinking Through Magical Realism in Recent U.S. TV”
Diane Negra, Univ. of East Anglia, “Unforgettable You: The Female Amnesiac in Recent Film and Television”
Moya Luckett, NYU, “Big Love and The Girls Next Door: Exploring Structures of the Feminine Text”
Alex Bevan, Northwestern Univ., “Desperate Housewives: New Media, Historical Memory, and the Constitute of Female Identity and Feminism”

Saturday, April 26 - 8:30-10:00 SESSION 1
5 Under the Knife: Plastic Surgery on TV
Carole-Anne Tyler, UC Riverside, “The ‘Subject’ of Plastic Surgery Television”
David Bering-Porter, Brown Univ., “Mimicry and the Televisual Real: Plastic Surgery and/in Reality Television”
Jonathan Cohn, UCLA, “The Perfection of Disfigurement: The Spectator’s Body in the Era of Video”
Anne Jerslev, Univ. of Copenhagen, “Cosmetic Surgery and Mediatized Body Theatre: The Designable Body as Public Events”

Saturday, April 26 - 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SESSION 2
4 Workshop: Sex Work in Industry and Academe
Chair: Constance Penley, UCSB
Mireille Miller-Young, UCSB
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, UCSB
Nina Hartley