CFP: University of Colorado Boulder Religion Conference

The University of Colorado Boulder's Center for Media, Religion, and Culture is hosting their sixth international conference. The conference will be January 7-10, 2016. Submissions are due August 1, 2015 to MediaReligion@colorado.edu. The purpose of the conference is to bring current research in religion and media studies into conversation with current scholarship on gender and sexuality in order to explore a rich and understudied range of issues relating to the intersection of religion, media and gender studies, broadly considered. Papers and panels may answer questions and discuss topics such as:

-Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of media, gender, religion and culture: gender as a category of analysis, feminist
theory, queer theory, intersectionality, LGBTQIA analyses, postcolonial feminist perspectives, etc.
-Comparative analyses of religion, gender and sexuality in the media
-Historical approaches to media, gender, and religion
-Global and transnational discourses of religion, gender, and media
-Gender, secularism, and media
-Discourses of sexuality, power, gender and desire
-Religion, gender violence, and media
-Gender, sexuality and the senses, material and visual culture, aesthetics, affect and embodiment
-Neoliberalism, labor, consumption, branding, and marketing gender and religion
-Representations of gender and sexuality in journalism and news media
-Gender, religion and media stereotypes
-Gender, media and religious authority
-Religion and gendered media spaces
-Gender, religion and mediatization
-Gender, religion, and race/ethnicity
-Gender, sexuality, and politics
-Role and impact of new technologies on gender and sexuality
-Popular culture, entertainment media and portrayals of gender and sexuality
-Interactions and shifting boundaries of religion and gender in social media
-Religion, gender, and gaming
-Social movements, social and religious activism, and issues of gender and sexuality
-Religion and gender bullying and harassment in media spaces

For more information, please refer to: http://cmrc.colorado.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/GenderConferenceCFP.pdf