Feminist Media Histories Workshop

The workshop we are proposing will take place on the UW Seattle campus in spring 2019 over the course of two days. It will include 6 speakers and incorporate a 25-person workshop with breakout sessions meant to facilitate the writing of articles that will make up the first UW-hosted issue of Feminist Media Histories. We purposefully bring together feminist and queer media historians working in different sub-fields to promote a dynamic exchange. While scholars working on Afro-futurism (Keeling), queer world making (Young), digital democracies (Chun; Nakamura), media activism (Juhasz), counter-archives (Ahmad; Mukherjee; Hennefeld), or the televisual everyday (Spigel), consider radically diverse media objects, they each bring a powerful perspective to bear on the question organizing this event: how can we understand the relationships between natural, political, cultural, fictional, cinematic, archival, televisual, and virtual worlds, and why does this matter?