Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia
June 27-29, 2025
In the contemporary media landscape, films are remade, television shows rebooted, videogames reimagined in a seemingly endless loop of reproduction. Reproduction, in the form of AI, was also at the heart of recent media industry labor actions. While the concept of reproduction has various meanings across media production, programming, and technology, it is foundationally about efforts to extend lineages. At Console-ing Passions 2025, we hope to initiate conversations about reproduction as a politics of agency, authorship, autonomy, and value-creation. The conference will take place on June 27-29, 2025 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, a city that is home to artists, activists, and leaders who strive to live up to the legacy of the city as “the cradle of civil rights.” We invite presentations that broadly consider the concept of reproduction as it applies to texts, economic systems, and labor practices. We welcome approaches that consider the role of civil rights, political action, and labor movements in both the U.S. and a global context in relation to this topic.
The 2025 Conference Organizing Committee in the School of Film, Media, and Theatre at Georgia State University invites proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted panels that consider the conference theme of Reproduction and any other aspects of television, video, audio, or new media through gender, sexuality, race, and/or other systems of inequality.
To submit your proposals please access our submission form here.
Submissions Due December 10th
Notifications begin January 31st
If you have any questions, please email at consoleingpassions25@gmail.com
