MCS Professors Michael DeAngelis and Kelly Kessler both recently attended the Console-ing Passions conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Console-ing Passions is an international conference devoted to the study of televison, video, audio, new media and feminism, and "was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality." (http://www.console-ingpassions.org/about-cp/)
Michael DeAngelis presented a paper entitled “Gay Love Triangles, General
Hospital and the Contemporary American Daytime Serial” on a panel called 'Queer Identities and Contemporary Television.'
Kelly Kessler's paper, “Best Friends Forever, Playing House and America’s Continued Cultural Anxiety Over Televising Female Friends,” was presented in a panel called 'Girlfriendship.' She also participated in a workshop called 'Moving On Up While Keeping It Together: Mentoring Workshop for Tenure and Promotion,' giving a talk entitled “No Really, Gender and Media Studies is a Real Thing: Positioning Your Work for Tenure Committees outside of the Discipline.”
The conference was held at the Marker Hotel in the Dublin Docklands from June 18-20, 2015.
