Another conference! This time I'm following in my workshop-mate Sam Ford's footsteps. 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

I could conceivably attend a panel in EVERY session, which is rather terrifying. I don't know if I will, but I'll certainly try. Friends are bolded.

Thu, March 6 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session A
A7: Theories of the Digital
Tami Williams (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Sounding the Cyberspace Alarm: A Historical Look at Paul Virilio’s Gaze, from Architectural Trans-appearance to the Globalized Virtual Perceptron"
Zachary Blas (University of California Los Angeles), "TransCoder: The softQueerBody"
Daniel Morgan (University of Pittsburg), "Bazin in the Digital World"

Thu, March 6 2:00 -3:45 pm Session B
B11: Uses of Ethnography and Anthropology
Paula Amad (University of Iowa), "The Beginning of Ethnographic Film at the Ends of Postcolonial Theory: The Films of Father Aupiais in Dahomey 1929-1930"
Katherine Groo (Cornell University), "Mysterious Unkillable Something: Rereading Josephine Baker and the Surface of Ethnographic Cinema"
Pooja Rangan (Brown University, Modern Culture and Media), "Media Education as Auto-ethnography: BORN INTO BROTHELS"
Kathryn Ramey (Emerson College), "Anthropologists, Animators and 'Actions': The Organic Machine in SAKAMAPEAP and the Films of the Quay Brothers"

Thu, March 6 4:00 -5:45 pm Session C
C4: The Business of Science Fiction Television
Shawn Shimpach (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "'No Flights, No Tights': Doing Business with Superman"
Bob Rehak (Swarthmore College), "Strange New Worlds: The Incorporated Narratives of Science Fiction Transmedia"
Ina Hark (University of South Carolina), "The Business of Resurrecting Dead Science Fiction Television Shows"
Barbara Selznick (University of Arizona), "Distributing the Future: Science Fiction and Television Distribution"

Fri, March 7 8:00 -9:45 am Session D
D3: Color Coding: Race, Technology and Daily Life
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California), "Understanding McLuhan: Electronic Media, Race and Mid-century Culture"
Curtis Marez (USC), "Star Wars and the Chicano/a Critique of Neoliberalism"
Jennifer Gonzalez (University of California, Santa Cruz), "The Face and the Public: Racial Formations in Digital Art"
Respondent: Wendy Chun (Brown University)

Fri, March 7 10:00 -11:45 am Session E
E3: Film Theory and Marxism: New Approaches
Jane Gaines (Duke University), "Film Theory: How Many Marxisms?"
Philip Rosen (Brown University), "Eisenstein’s Marxism, Marxism’s Eisenstein"
Masha Salazkina (Colgate University), "Early Soviet Film Theory in Latin American Radical Film Theory and Practice"
John MacKay (Yale University), "Did Vertov Have a Theory of Spectatorship?"

E14: Closets and Other Places: Mapping Queer Media
Christian Gay (University of Miami), "Urban Spaces and Queer Places in John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS"
Amy Villarejo (Cornell University), "TALES OF THE CITY, or Stairway to Heaven: Television’s Queer Cartographies"
Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University), "Out of the Closet and on the Road: Identity, Mobility, and Geography in Gay-themed Cultural Production"
Kevin Ohi (Boston College), "Voyeurism and Annunciation in Almodóvar’s TALK TO HER"

Fri, March 7 1:15 -3:00 pm Session F
F4: Not Your Average Couch Potato: Television Fandom
Suzanne Scott (University of Southern California), ""Authorized Resistance: Is 'Battlestar Galactica' Fan Production Frakked?""
Ashley Moss (University of Arizona), "Courting the Interactive Audience: Integrating Fan Videos into Network Marketing Campaigns"
Julie Russo (Brown University), "The Shape of Things to Come: Online Promotions, Fan Videos, and Other Queer Technologies in the Progeny of 'Battlestar Galactica'"
Kirsten Pullen (University of Calgary), "Evaluating Without Pity: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and the Terrain of Television Talent Show Fandom"

Fri, March 7 3:15 -5:00 pm Session G
G4: Television as a Cultural Center; the Future of the Public Sphere
Shanti Kumar (University of Texas, Austin), "Redefining the 'Public' in Indian Television"
Yeidy Rivero (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Public Television for the ‘Other’ Publics: ESAA-TV (1972-1980)"
Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The Public Sphere in a 'Hybrid Media Ecology': YouTube, Network Television, and Presidential Politics"
Jostein Gripsrud (Universitetet i Bergen), "Television and the Digital Public Sphere"

G5: Media Subcultures
Josh Guilford (Brown University), "'The Differences You See Are the Differences between the Future and the Past': Bones Brigade Skateboard Videos and American Subculture"
Robert Jones (New York University), "Machinimateur Wanted: The Professionalization of Machinima Software"
Amanda Fleming (Indiana University), "Looking at the Monstrous Human: Serial Killer Fans Online"
Katie Mills (Occidental College), "Viral Mobility: Lowrider Videos on YouTube"

Fri, March 7 5:15 -7:00 pm Session H
H4: Paratextual Architectures and the Shifting Boundaries of Television
Jonathan Gray (Fordham University), "Where is(n’t) Springfield? Placing THE SIMPSONS and Television"
Louisa Stein (San Diego State University), "Hailing the Fan: Diegetic and Extradiegetic Expansion in Official Online Interfaces"
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), "Architectures of Participation: Wiki Fandom and the Case of LostPedia"
Kristina Busse (n/a), "Paratextual Commentary as Writer Response Theory"

Sat, March 8 8:00 -9:45 am Session I
I3: Women, Modernity and Cinema
E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University), "Women, Affect and 'Late' Modernity: Duras’ and Sontag’s 1970s Cinema"
Mary Ann Doane (Brown University), "Modernity and the Faces of Women"
Veronica Pravadelli (Universita Di Roma Tre), "The Modern Woman and Visual/Sexual Display in Early Sound Cinema"
Respondent: Patrice Petro (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

I5: Republic of Users
Lindsay Fullerton (Northwestern University), "Read/Write Web: Architectures of Participation in Web 2.0"
Brett McCracken (University of California, Los Angeles), "Filler Upload: User-generated Fuel for the Internet Economy"
Joshua Green (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The People Formerly Known As: What happens to the Audience When We’re All ‘Users’?"
Patricia Lange (University of Southern California), "The Return of the Unruly Active Audience: Structuring Feedback on YouTube"

Sat, March 8 10:00 -11:45 am Session J
J4: Copyright
Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania), "'Legally Unique': Chaplin, Copyright, and the Beginning of the End of Participatory Culture"
Abigail Derecho (Columbia College Chicago), "License to Remix: Structuring a Creativity-Copyright Balance by Reviving Fair Pay Proposals for Fan Productions, Sampling, and Other Digital Appropriations"
Patricia Aufderheide (American University), "Pirates of the Remix Universe: Online Video Practices on the Frontier of the Copyright Wars"
Lucas Hilderbrand (University of California, Irvine), "Focus on the Family: The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act and Personal Censorship"

Sat, March 8 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session K
K9: Workshop: Scholarly Writing in the Digital Age
Chair: Avi Santo (Old Dominion University)
Co-chair: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College)
Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)
Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College)
Christian Keathley (Middlebury College)

Sat, March 8 2:00 -3:45 pm Session L
L19: Three Warhols and a Deren
Sarah Keller (University of Chicago), "Maya Deren and Poetic Cinema: Image, Influence and Metaphor"
Erika Balsom (Brown University), "An Aesthetics of Prattle, A Riot of Detail: The Early Films of Andy Warhol"
Eric Crosby (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Paroxysmal Poetics: Strobe Cutting in Warhol’s Films, 1966-1969"
Nadia Bozak (University of Toronto), "Andy Warhol's Empire: The Cinematic Pyramid"

Sat, March 8 4:00 -5:45 pm Session M
M9: Workshop: The Future of Television Studies
Chair: William Uricchio (MIT)
Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
William Boddy (Baruch College/City University of New York)
Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham)
Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster)

Sun, March 9 8:00 -9:45 am Session N
N14: (Re)Constructing Bisexual Spaces
Caryn Murphy (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "'Going Through a Phase': Bisexuality and Adolescence as Liminal Identities in Teen Television Drama”"
L. Ayu Saraswati P. (Emory University), "Foreplay or For Play?: Making Love and Remaking Bisexual Identities in Cyberspace"
Jennifer Moorman (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Game of (SECOND) LIFE: Bi/Sexual Identities in Online Gaming"
Respondent: Alexander Doty (Lehigh University)

Sun, March 9 10:00 -11:45 am Session O
O16: The Device at Hand
Richard Cante (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Redesigning the World with the Medium in Collapse (and the Device on the Rise)"
Paige Sarlin (Brown University), "Illuminating Obsolescence: Dialectics at Stand Still & Eastman Kodak's Carousel Slide Projector"
Angela Dancey (The Ohio State University), "Digital Switchblades: Cell Phones, Gangsters and Going Undercover in THE DEPARTED"
Marc Furstenau (Carleton University), "Designing the User: Video Technology and the Structures of an Expanded Cinematic Space"

Sun, March 9 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session P
P4: So Say We All: Watching BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois, Urbana), "Yellow Fever: Artificial Asian Woman and the War on Terror in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
Elspeth Kydd (University of the West of England), "The Look and Feel of Humanity: Cylons and the 'Passing' Narrative in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
Ewan Kirkland (Bucks New University), "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and its Media"
Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan), "Moral Ambiguity & Quality Television or Why I Love & Hate Gaius Baltar"
Robin Roberts (LSU) and Geoffrey Clayton (Louisiana State University), "Gender, Leadership and Reproduction in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"

folks whose panels I won't be able to attend due to scheduling, SORRY!
Ford, Samuel A17
Thain, Alanna B6
Furuhata, Yuriko C16
Siegel, Michael E18
Tierney, Matthew H13
Richmond, Scott J14
Steinberg, Marc J2
White, Patricia K10, M7
Takahashi, Tess M3
Brinkema, Eugenie P11
Kompare, Derek P13

Media in Transition 5 ~ TV 2.0: Remixing Battlestar Galactica

audio files:
http://j-l-r.org/media/MiT5/melaniekohnen.m4a - Melanie E. S. Kohnen, Battlestar Galactica and the Reimagination of Contemporary American History
http://j-l-r.org/media/MiT5/sarahtoton.m4a - Sarah Toton, Reimagining Fan Culture: The Long Journey of Battlestar Galactica (http://blog.battlestarwiki.org/2007/05/01/mit5-on-bsg/)
http://j-l-r.org/media/MiT5/annekustritz.m4a - Anne Kustritz, Ownership and Desire: Fans' and Producers' Manipulation of Fictional Love Triangles
http://j-l-r.org/media/MiT5/julielevinrusso.m4a - Julie Levin Russo, Labors of Love: Capitalizing on Fan Economies (video: http://blip.tv/file/get/Julie-28Apr07LaborsOfLoveMiT5290.mov)

eta: versions of our talks have been published in FlowTV's Battlestar Galactica issue: http://flowtv.org/?cat=127

reports on this panel (as far as I know): Axel Bruns (http://snurb.info/node/662) / Jason Mittell (http://justtv.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/mit5-day-2/) / Laura Boylan (http://acafangirl.livejournal.com/1695.html) / Karen Hellekson (http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/mit5-con-report/) / Derek Kompare (http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/mit-5-tv-20-remixing-battlestar...) read more »