Call for papers for the next annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, which will be held from June 1-4, 2021 as part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2021 Congress. This year’s theme is “ Northern Relations .” Congress 2021 is organized this year in partnership with the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

We wish to foster an international, virtual community of scholars from all disciplines engaged with the study of music and sound in audio-visual media. Our intention is to organise a regular forum for researchers and practitioner-researchers at all levels to present work in supportive and informal sessions, to take place fortnightly from January 2021.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick) Theo D’haen (Leuven University and Leiden University) Janet McCabe

“Disregard the universal. Pursue the trivial, preferably sideways. Truth is never on the main road.

When BritBox was announced, many wondered what impact it would make. Unless it offered something beyond the freely accessible programmes on BBC iPlayer and ITV Hub, what incentive would people have to start subscribing to another streaming platform? As someone with an interest in archive television, streaming services have offered little to appeal to my tastes.

While I have always been an avid television viewer, I have found that my content consumption behaviour has changed drastically; before I arrived at University in September, I was watching more television than ever before. This was mainly due to the reduced levels of physical contact with my friends but also due to a wealth of undiscovered programmes on streaming services. Fig.

Chapter proposals are invited for a proposed edited companion on the seminal television series The X-Files (1993-2018, Fox), its movies, spin offs ( The Lone Gunmen , Millennium ), and surrounding paratextual material (books, comics, fan fiction etc). The X-Files became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s, transforming from a cult TV show into a pop cultural phenomenon by the end of the decade.

The Tropics has long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to non-indigenous peoples due to the hostility of its climate; it persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour;

Confirmed Keynotes: Dr Dima Ayoub, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies, Middlebury College. Dr Golnar Nabizadeh, Lecturer in Comics Studies, Dundee University. Kenny Glenaan, BAFTA Scotland winning theatre, television and film director: https://www.kennyglenaan.com/ For the 2021 edition of the Association of Adaptation Studies conference, we are seeking proposals on the topic of Journeys: Memory and Migration.

Last week, a number of UK TV executives discussed strategies for programming television, particularly at this time, during the pandemic, during the BBC’s Digital Cities Virtual Events. And pretty much all came to the same conclusions: that what audiences want, right now, is warm-hearted, comfort-television.