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CFP: Business History Conference

2012-05-17T02:37:32Z

"The Cultures and Institutions of Business"
Business History Conference Annual Meeting
Columbus, Ohio
March 21-23, 2013

The Business History Conference invites proposals for its 2013 annual
meeting, taking place March 21 - 23, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Columbus
hotel in Columbus, Ohio.

The theme of the annual meeting is "The Cultures and Institutions of
Business." We are interested in all topics embracing the culture of
business and the business of culture. Papers may engage the ways in
which cultural beliefs, values, practices, institutions, meanings,
language, identities, habits and cognition shape business
orientation,governance, behavior and performance in different
geographical, historical, or social settings. Papers may also address the
ways in which business has acted upon cultural practices and institutions,
both high and popular culture, or how the language of business has entered
into wider public discourses. Works might cover such matters as the
business of entertainment and the arts or cultural differences (or
conformity) in ideas and practices of management, accounting, human
resources, scientific and technological research, and innovation.
In keeping with longstanding BHC policy the Committee will also consider
submissions not directly related to the conference theme.

The BHC Program Committee for 2013 consists of: Kolleen Guy (chair),
University of Texas, San Antonio; Morris Bian, Auburn University; Julia
Ott, The New School; Susie Pak, St. Johns University; and Kenneth
Lipartito (BHC President-elect), Florida International University.

The committee will consider both individual papers and entire panels.
Individual paper proposals should include a one-page (300 word) abstract
and one-page curriculum vitae (CV). Panel proposals should include a cover
letter stating the rationale for the panel and the name of its contact
person; one-page (300 word) abstract and author's CV for each paper; and a
list of preferred panel chairs and commentators with contact information.
Graduate students and recent PhDs (within 3 years of receipt of degree)
whose papers are accepted for the meeting may apply for funds to partially
defray their travel costs; information will be sent out once the program
has been set. Everyone appearing on the program is required to register
for the meeting.

The BHC awards the Herman E. Krooss
Prize<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/krooswin.html>; for the best
dissertation in business history by a recent Ph.D. in history, economics,
business administration, the history of science and technology, sociology,
law, communications, and related fields. To be eligible, dissertations
must be completed in the three calendar years immediately prior to the
2013 annual meeting, and may only be submitted once for the Krooss prize.
If you wish to apply for this prize, please send a letter to the Krooss
Prize Committee expressing your interest along with a one-page CV and
one-page (300 word) dissertation abstract. After the Krooss committee has
reviewed the proposals, it will ask semi-finalists to submit copies of
their dissertations. Finalists will present summaries of their
dissertations at a plenary session of the 2013 BHC annual meeting in
Columbus and will receive a partial subsidy of their travel costs to the
meeting.

The K. Austin Kerr Prize<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/kerr.html>; is
awarded for the best first paper delivered by a new scholar at the annual
meeting of the BHC. A "new scholar" is defined as a doctoral candidate or
a Ph. D. whose degree is less than three years old. If you wish to
participate in this competition, please notify the BHC program committee
in your proposal. Proposals accepted for the Krooss Prize are not eligible
for the Kerr Prize.

The CEBC-Halloran Prize in the History of Corporate Responsibility
<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/halloran.html>; is awarded for a paper
presented at the annual meeting of the BHC that makes a significant
contribution to the history of corporate responsibility. Corporate
responsibility is understood to embrace the many ways in which the firm
relates to the political realm and the wider society.

The deadline for receipt of all proposals is 1 October 2012. Acceptance
letters will be sent by 20 December 2012. Presenters are expected to
submit abstracts of their papers for posting on the BHC website. In
addition, presenters are encouraged to post electronic versions of their
papers prior to the meeting and to submit their papers for inclusion in
the BHC's on-line proceedings, Business and Economic History
On-Line.<http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/beh.html>;

Please send proposals for papers, panels, or the Krooss Prize to
BHC2013@Hagley.org <mailto:BHC2013@Hagley.org>;. If you do not have access
to the internet, you may send hard copies to Roger Horowitz,
Secretary-Treasurer, Business HistoryConference, P. O. Box 3630,
Wilmington, DE 19807, USA. Phone: (302)658-2400; fax: (302) 655-3188.

The Oxford Journals Doctoral Colloquium in Business History
<http://www.thebhc.org/annmeet/colloq.html>; will be held in conjunction
with the BHC annual meeting. This prestigious workshop, sponsored by BHC
and funded by the Journals Division of Oxford University Press, will take
place in Columbus at the conference site Wednesday March 20 and Thursday
March 21. The colloquium is limited to ten students. Participants work
intensively with a distinguished group of BHC-affiliated scholars that
includes at least two BHC officers. The colloquium will discuss
dissertation proposals, relevant literatures and research strategies, and
employment opportunities in business history. This colloquium is intended
for doctoral candidates in the early stages of their dissertation
projects. If you are interested in being considered for this colloquium,
please submit to Roger Horowitz by 1 December 2013 (at the email address
listed above) a statement of interest, a CV, a preliminary or final
dissertation prospectus of 10-15 pages, and a letter of support from your
dissertation supervisor (or prospective supervisor). All participants
receive a stipend that will partially cover the costs of their attendance
at the annual meeting. The colloquium committee will notify all applicants
of its decisions by 10 January 2013.

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Position: Digital Media Editor for American Journalism

2012-05-15T02:32:24Z

Digital Media Editor Needed for American Journalism

The editors of American Journalism invite applications for the newly created position of Digital Media Editor to commission reviews of films and websites relevant to the study and teaching of media history for the journal. This is a renewable-term appointment, with the initial term defined as July 1, 2012 to October 1, 2014.

The Digital Media Editor is responsible for identifying for review websites and exhibits in the digital humanities, and documentary and feature films related to the study of history and mass communication. Additionally, the Digital Media Editor will edit and process reviews submitted electronically and work with the journal editors to sustain publication cycles. Quarterly deadlines for receiving final edited copy are March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15.

American Journalism is the quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of the American Journalism Historians Association. The Digital Media Editor will join a volunteer staff of scholars committed to promoting high-quality research and resources to advance the field of journalism and mass communication history, broadly construed.

To inquire, please e-mail or post a letter of interest and c.v. by June 1, 2012 to Barbara Friedman, Editor, American Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill, CB #3365 Chapel Hill, NC 27599; bfriedman@unc.edu<;mailto:bfriedman@unc.edu>;

Barbara Friedman, Ph.D.
Editor, American Journalism
Master's Program Adviser
Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina
CB #3365
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(o) 919.843.2099
(f) 919.962.0620
bfriedman@unc.edu<;mailto:bfriedman@unc.edu>;
americanjournalism@unc.edu<;mailto:americanjournalism@unc.edu>;

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Approaching deadline May 15 for preregistration for the 13th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association

2012-05-14T02:51:38Z

The Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association

The Crossroads of the Word

June 7–10, 2012  

Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York

Featured Speakers

Sherry Turkle

Douglas Rushkoff

Terence P. Moran

Jaron Lanier

For Registration and Preliminary Program, go to

http://www.media-ecology.org

Deadline for Preregistration: May 15

Times Square, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue in New York City, has often been referred to as the “Crossroads of the World.”

In fact, New York City itself can be considered a crossroads of the world. New York Harbor is home to Ellis Island, the main point of entry for the “huddled masses” who came to the United States in search of a better life, particularly as part of the “great immigration” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and who became part of America’s great “melting pot.” The city’s five boroughs are home to the most diverse population of any city on earth, with virtually every culture and language group represented.

New York is also a crossroads of the media/mass media world: home to the U.S. corporate headquarters of almost all of our major multinational media conglomerates; home to Silicon Alley; and the indisputable news and information capital of the United States.

It must be added, too, that the way we understand, analyze, and make sense of our world and all things in it is through our human language, in its spoken, written, and print forms. That is to say, our world is all about words. And at this juncture in the history of human civilization, in which people speak of a “post-literate culture,” after media ecologist Walter Ong, S. J., subtitled his book Orality and Literacy “The Technologizing of the Word,” and media ecologist Jacques Ellul wrote The Humiliation of the Word, we can perhaps say that we stand at a “Crossroads of the Word.”

Convention Coordinator: Thom Gencarelli (thom.gencarelli{at}manhattan.edu).

Featured Speakers

Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of The Second Self, Life on the Screen, and her latest book Alone Together (Thursday evening, June 7)

Douglas Rushkoff (http://www.rushkoff.com/), winner of the MEA's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, author of ten books including the recent Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, and producer of three Frontline documentaries including “Merchants of Cool”, “The Persuaders”, and “Digital Nation”  (Friday, June 8)

Terence P. Moran, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, one of the three founding members of NYU’s media ecology doctoral program, and author of Selling War to America: From the Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror and Introduction to The History of Communication: Evolutions and Revolutions (Saturday, June 9)

Jaron Lanier (http://www.jaronlanier.com/), computer scientist, composer, visual artist, author of You are Not a Gadget, and one of Time magazine’s “100 People” for 2010  (Saturday evening, June 9)

The program will also include plenary sessions in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Walter J. Ong and Jacques Ellul.

Campus Housing

Campus housing at Manhattan College will be available from Wednesday night, June 6 through Sunday night, June 10 (with checkout on Monday morning, June 11). This housing is situated just a two-minute walk from the buildings in which the convention will be held.

Pricing is as follows:

• $60 US per person per night for a private bedroom in a two-bedroom suite with a shared bath

• $100 US per person per night for a private bedroom with a private bath

To reserve campus housing please check the following two-step process:

1) Call Fiona Delaney, the Office Manager at the College's Business Office, at 1-718-862-7456, between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Monday through Friday. Tell Fiona you wish to reserve campus housing during the Media Ecology Association Convention, and tell her which housing option you prefer. The College accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.

2) E-mail Brian Korney at bkorney.student{at}manhattan.edu with

(a) your name (b) your housing option (c) the dates you will be staying.

This will guarantee your reservation and ensure that we have an accurate housing list.

Hotels

For those of you who prefer to stay at a hotel, you have two options: You can stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Or you can stay at a hotel In Yonkers, New York - a few miles north of campus.

If you choose to stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan, please note the following:

(1) New York City has a great many hotels from which to choose. If you are not happy with the ones we recommend below, you are of course free to search for your own.

(2) The hotels we recommend are all located on the west side of Manhattan, and are convenient to the No. 1 subway train, which will take you right down the hill - a two-minute walk - from the Manhattan College campus. If you choose an alternative hotel, we recommend that you also choose one on the West Side. (Subway directions can be found below.)

(3) The recommended hotels do not offer a special convention rate, as we are not using their services otherwise.

(4) A subway ride from midtown to the campus takes about a half hour.

If you choose to stay at one of the recommended hotels in Yonkers, New York - both of which are located about seven miles (11.25 Km) from campus - you will need to either rent a car or take a taxi to campus and back. A taxi costs approximately $16.50 US each way.

Hotels in Manhattan

The following two hotels in Manhattan are presently pricing at about $250 per person per night:

• The Milburn Hotel - 242 West 76th Street  Manhattan College uses this hotel to house guests who wish to stay in midtown

• Holiday Inn - 440 West 57th Street

In addition, the MEA has used the following hotel in the past. However, it is presently pricing at $379 per person per night:

• Hudson Hotel - 356 West 58th Street

Hotels in Yonkers, New York

• Hampton Inn and Suites - 160 Corporate Boulevard Manhattan College also uses this hotel to house guests Presently pricing at $179 per person per night (or $152 non-refundable)

• Ramada Inn - 125 Tuckahoe Road Presently pricing at $129 per person per night

Directions to Campus from the No. 1 Subway Line

• Take the No. 1 subway north to the end of the line - the Van Cortlandt Park/242nd Street stop.

• Walk up the hill on West 242nd Street to College's main gate on the right.

• Signs will be posted to direct you to the buildings in which the convention is being held

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New Specialization in Rare Books and Print and Visual Culture to be Offered by Department of IS, UCLA

2012-05-11T02:37:23Z

A new specialization in Rare Books, and Print and Visual Culture has been approved by the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA. The specialization, which will be added to the department’s existing specializations in Archival Studies, Informatics, and Library Studies, is open to students earning their Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. Nationwide, there are only 13 accredited master’s level programs that offer specialized studies in rare books, special collections, or print history.

This specialization will be enriched by courses taught by the California Rare Book School, which is based in the Department, and UCLA’s Digital Humanities program. It will also draw upon renowned special collections in the Southern California area, including those of UCLA Library.

Johanna Drucker, Professor of Information Studies and the inaugural Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, says that the new specialization will “strengthen the commitment to the full continuum from manuscript, analogue, print, to digital that is one of the hallmarks of the Information Studies Department.”

GSE&IS graduate students who choose the new specialization for their course of study will have the potential to find employment with private and public institutions that focus on the preservation of print artifacts, books, written manuscripts, visual materials, and digital special collections.

Gregory Leazer, chair of the Department of Information Studies, says the new specialization in Rare Books and Print and Visual Culture complements the department’s other degree programs and MLIS specializations.

“The new program of study takes advantage of our MLIS specializations in Library Studies and Archival Studies and our MA in Moving Image Archival Studies,” he says. “Our professional degree programs emphasize diversity in the types of collections and information environments. Our students benefit from the full variety of cultural resources in Los Angeles, from world class art and history collections, movie and music studio collections, and the special collections of major research universities, as well as unique community-based and local history collections.”

For information on the Department of Information Studies, visit the Website at http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/.

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CFP: Information Identities: Historical Perspectives on Technological and Social Change

2012-05-09T04:21:08Z

CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGCIS Workshop 2012
Information Identities: Historical Perspectives on Technological and Social Change

Sunday October 7, 2012 - Copenhagen, Denmark

For the latest updates and the full Call for Papers, see http://www.sigcis.org/workshop12.

DEADLINE for submissions: 15 June 2012

The Society for the History of Technology's Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS http://www.sigcis.org) welcomes submissions for a one-day scholarly workshop to be held on Sunday, October 7, 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark. As in previous years, SIGCIS?s annual workshop will be held at the end of the SHOT annual meeting on the day that SHOT has reserved for SIG events. For more information on the main SHOT program, see http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html.

SIGCIS invites proposals that examine the relationships between computer and information technologies and changes to individual and/or group identities, such as those shared by a nation, company personnel, or members of a virtual community. Such papers might consider:

* Specific ?information identities??a term that we invite scholars to interpret broadly and creatively?that have been articulated in the recent or distant past
* Relationships between information technologies and political change
* The rhetoric and discourses of globalization that have been linked to information and computer technologies
* National identity and its relation to information technology
* National and transnational strategies for joining or creating an ?information society,? a ?network society,? an ?information economy,? or related concepts
* Transnational and international organizations, such as IFIP, UNESCO, the European Union, or standard-setting committees.
* Ways in which particular information technologies acquired new meanings and fulfilled new roles through interaction with local practices and identities
* The emergence of new kinds of community and identity around information technologies.

SIGCIS encourages submissions along these and similar lines of inquiry, but it also maintains a proud tradition of welcoming all types of contributions related to the history of computing and information, whether or not there is an explicit connection with the annual theme. Our membership is international and interdisciplinary, and our members examine the history of information technologies and their place within society.

Proposals for entire sessions and individual presenters are both welcome. We hope to run special sessions featuring dissertations in progress and other works in progress. The workshop is a great opportunity to get helpful feedback on your projects in a relaxed and supportive environment. All proposals will be subject to a peer review process based on abstracts.

All submissions should be made online via the SIGCIS website, http://www.sigcis.org/workshop12. Limited travel assistance for graduate students and other scholars without institutional support is available. Questions about the 2012 SIGCIS workshop should be addressed to Andrew Russell (College of Arts & Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology), who is serving as chair of the workshop program committee. Email arussell@stevens.edu.

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"Timeline of Historical Film Colors" now online

2012-05-08T02:34:02Z

I am very excited to announce that my database of historical film colors is now online. It consists of approximately 240 entries, illustrated with approximately 400 images from archives and private collections:
http://www.zauberklang.ch/colorsys.php

In its current form the database is a nucleus for a much more advanced project which will be elaborated in the forthcoming months. It is my plan to develop a collaborative platform which allows experts and researchers to collaborate on a global scale.

Many renowned scholars and institutions have contributed already:

http://www.zauberklang.ch/acknowledgements.html

To date, I have been solely responsible not only for gathering and analyzing all of the data, which derives from my studies of several hundred original papers and secondary sources at Harvard University in the fall term of 2011, but also for programming most of the database and organizing all the images and copyright clearances. Only to a very limited extent have I received financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation in the framework of my research project "Film History Re-mastered" (see abstract and further information on the university's research database). Thus I had to finance a major part from my private means.

Therefore I have set up a crowd-funding campaign to invite you to support the further development of the project, either by sharing it or by contributing financially. It is my goal to collect at least $10,000 in the upcoming 90 days. There are several levels, starting at $25 for buying the rights for one image and extending to $5,000 for possible co-chairs of this project:
http://www.indiegogo.com/colorprocesses

I am very grateful for any kind of support! And I would be more than happy to give you proper credit for your conceptual or financial contribution.

Yours sincerely,

Barbara Flueckiger

Prof. Dr. Barbara Flueckiger

Institute of Cinema Studies
University of Zurich
http://www.zauberklang.ch

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$10K prize in Unz Historical Research Competition using archives of pre-1950 publications

2012-05-03T02:34:25Z

From: Ron Unz
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Dear Friends, As some of you already know, I recently released a content-archiving website, www.unz.org, which had absorbed most of my time and effort over the last few years.The website makes freely available a vast quantity of high-quality content material, including the archives of numerous important publications published during the first half of the 20th Century and earlier. Most of this important source material---millions of pages---has never previously been available to anyone except on the dusty shelves of major research libraries.The Wilson Quarterly recently ran a brief description of the project entitled The Periodical Table.As a means of publicizing this new website and the research value of the unique content material which it contains, I am announcing The Unz Historical Research Competition, offering a $10,000 First Prize for the most interesting and important historical research project derived from the website source materials. The competition begins today, l
asts until August 31, 2012, and is open to students, academics, independent scholars, or other interested individuals, both in the United States and around the world. The exact details of the competition may be found on the Unz Competition website, which includes a partial listing of the periodical archives.Please make this information available to those who might find it interesting.

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"Information Identities" - CFP for SIGCIS 2012 Workshop

2012-05-02T03:55:31Z

CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGCIS Workshop 2012
Information Identities: Historical Perspectives on Technological and
Social Change

For the latest updates and the full Call for Papers, see
http://www.sigcis.org/workshop12.

DEADLINE for submissions: 15 June 2012

SIGCIS invites proposals that examine the relationships between computer and
information technologies and changes to individual and/or group
identities, such as those shared by a nation, company personnel, or
members of a virtual community. Such papers might consider:

* Relationships between information technologies and political change
* The rhetoric and discourses of globalization that have been linked to
information and computer technologies
* National identity and its relation to information technology

* Transnational and international organizations, such as IFIP, UNESCO, the
European
Union, or standard-setting committees.
* Ways in which particular information technologies acquired new meanings
and fulfilled new roles through interaction with local practices and
identities
* The emergence of new kinds of community and identity around information
technologies.

SIGCIS encourages submissions along these and similar lines of inquiry,
but it also maintains a proud tradition of welcoming all types of
contributions related to the history of computing and information, whether
or not there is an explicit connection with the annual theme. Our
membership is international and interdisciplinary, and our members examine
the history of information technologies and their place within society.

Proposals for entire sessions and individual presenters are both welcome.
We hope to run special sessions featuring dissertations in progress and
other works in progress. The workshop is a great opportunity to get
helpful feedback on your projects in a relaxed and supportive environment.
All proposals will be subject to a peer review process based on abstracts.

All submissions should be made online via the SIGCIS website,
http://www.sigcis.org/workshop12. Limited travel assistance for graduate
students and other scholars without institutional support is available.

Questions about the 2012 SIGCIS workshop should be addressed to Andrew
Russell (College of Arts & Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology), who
is serving as chair of the workshop program committee. Email
arussell@stevens.edu.

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Call for Papers for Special Issue on African American Literary Journalism

2012-05-01T02:23:37Z

Literary Journalism Studies, a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS), invites submissions for a special issue on African American literary journalism of the nineteenth, twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries. Working with a broad definition of literary journalism as fact-based, timely prose that employs literary technique (symbolism, dialogue, scene construction, character development, narrative structure, etc.), we are interested in manuscripts of 5,000 to 8,000 words that investigate African American-controlled venues hospitable to literary journalism as well as individual writers and their texts. While we welcome scholarship on the literary journalism of academics, poets and fiction writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Alice Childress and James Baldwin, we are also seeking manuscripts that focus on writers who primarily or even exclusively were or are journalists. Please d
irect questions and send submissions to Roberta S. Maguire <maguire@uwosh.edu>;. The submission deadline for this special issue is 1 October 2012.

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Announcing the Opening of 'The Pop Up Tv Pop Shop'

2012-04-30T02:39:57Z

ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF 'THE POP UP TV POP SHOP'

Do you remember singing into your hairbrush along to Top Of The Pops? Did you long to be as cool as Cathy McGowan on Ready Steady Go? Can you remember recording your favourite bands on The Tube or The Chart Show? The project team of the AHRC funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-89’ (based at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University) are excited to announce that throughout May they will be running a pop-up exhibition and ‘drop-in’ shop in Coventry city centre focusing on the history of British pop programming and Television for Women. The pop programme has arisen as a key area for discussion in our audience research in ways we hadn’t initially anticipated: interviewees have been especially keen to talk about viewing pop programmes, about their importance in keeping up with (and recording) the latest trends in pop music and fashion, and their impact on their evolving identity as teenagers and young women (around key programmes such as R
eady Steady Go, Six Five Special, Top of the Pops and The Tube).

The Coventry arts organisation Artspace have brokered a deal with Coventry City Council through their ‘Empty Shops’ initiative (recently praised in Mary Portas’ high street review), to house the project team’s exhibition about their work in the currently disused Co’v’ee shop in Shelton Square in Coventry city centre. The exhibition makes use of the large shop window (and the inside of the shop) to display an exhibition of props, documents, and moving-image footage which evokes the rich history of this programming in this period, and to get the passing public thinking and talking about the pop programmes that were important to them. Display items include: 1960s style furniture and artwork that evoke a typical Coventry living room of the time, a 1960s TV set playing pop programmes of this era on a loop, a ‘Cathy McGowan’ mannequin (McGowan has been identified as a significant icon for viewers of the 1960s), reproductions of Radio Times and TV Times coverage, and printed excerpt
s from the interviews we have already conducted about this aspect of the history of television for women.

The shop will also be open three times a week (Saturday 10-1, Monday 12-4, and Thursday 9-1) so that members of the public can drop in to talk to the project team about their work and share their memories of television viewing in this period. We hope that talking about pop programming will inspire people to share with us other memories of the television programming that was significant to them during the period of our research. We are also interested to hear whether pop programming was as significant for a male audience as it was for the female viewer. We would really like to meet and talk to anyone who is inspired by our exhibition and hope to see you in Shelton Square in May.
The Project team: Dr Rachel Moseley and Dr Helen Wheatley (Investigators), and Dr Mary Irwin (Post-doctoral Research Fellow) are at Warwick; Dr Helen Wood (Investigator) and Hazel Collie (Doctoral Researcher) are at De Montfort.

Period of occupation: 1-31 May 2013

Contact: Helen Wheatley – Helen.Wheatley@warwick.ac.uk – for more info

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2012-04-29T04:39:34Z

Television for Women: An International Conference: Call for Papers - advanced warning

Where: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
When: 15th-17th May 2013
Keynote Speakers: Charlotte Brunsdon, Christine Geraghty, Kathleen Karlyn and Lynn Spigel

At the culmination of the AHRC-funded project, A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-89, the project team (Dr. Mary Irwin, Dr. Rachel Moseley and Dr. Helen Wheatley (Warwick), and Hazel Collie and Dr. Helen Wood (De Montfort)) are organising a three day conference which seeks to open up and internationalise debate about the past, present and future of television programming for women. Whilst television has traditionally been identified as a 'feminised' medium, because it is apparently 'domestic, passive and generally oriented to consumption, rather than production' (D'Acci, 2004), there are still significant gaps in our knowledge of the relationship between television and women. We are therefore interested in hearing from scholars about television programming made for and watched by women viewers throughout the history of broadcasting and in the contemporary period, and would welcome both other researchers writing about the UK and those offering comparative work overseas. Whilst our project has worked to fill in some of the some of the gaps in the history of women�s television, outlining significant moments in our research period, specific programme types, genres and scheduling slots which have become significantly marked as feminine, we know that there are many more gaps to fill, and hope that this conference will be a further step towards this.

Potential topics:
* Rethinking broadcasting histories: where have women�s programmes and viewing practices been left out?
* National histories of programming for women. Is �TV for Women� a global phenomenon?
* Female audiences: speaking to them, mapping their tastes and interests.
* Institutional/production perspectives on addressing the female viewer: how have broadcasters envisaged �what women want�?
* Questions of gender and genre.
* Representation of women and women�s concerns and cultural competences on television (as addressed to the female viewer).
* Feminist (and post-feminist) address and representation on television.
* Significant programme makers/teams/production companies in the production of television for women: is TV for women TV by women?
* Channels for women in the multichannel age: Lifestyle, Living, etc.
* Archiving issues that relate to women�s TV culture.
* Analyses of magazines and TV ephemera (listings guides, women�s magazines, promotional materials, etc.) and their address to the female viewer.
* Other media, other screens: histories of women�s radio, the female viewer and social media, women viewers on multimedia viewing platforms, which consider their connection to television etc.
* Understanding female TV fandom.
* The question of generation: how do women remember and relate to television differently at different life stages.

Abstracts of c.250 should be sent to Helen.Wheatley@warwick.ac.uk by 12th October 2012. Pre-constituted panels of three speakers may also be submitted, and should include a brief panel rationale statement, as well as individual abstracts.

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