One of the loveliest places that my wife and I like to visit when we have a spare morning or afternoon is Astley Book Farm.

The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) is happy to invite students and early-career scholars to a full day of workshops right before the 8th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Braga, Portugal. Date: 01 October 2020 Deadline of application: April 05, 2020 Number of participants: 8-10 for each workshop.

The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in revisiting, reproducing or rewriting various aspects of nineteenth-century culture, particularly that of the late Victorian period, whether in the form of neo-Victorian literature, steampunk, media archaeology, fashion, documentaries and period dramas, among others.

Exchanges, in association with Dr Filippo Cervelli (SOAS) and Dr Benjamin Schaper (University of Oxford), is delighted to announce the latest opportunity to contribute to a special issue of Exchanges, combined with a workshop event. The full text of the call is available online.

The call for papers for articles for the sections “Monograph” and “Miscellaneous” for the Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic is now open. Scholars who wish to contribute to either of these two sections should send us their articles registering as authors on our web page.

Since its 2009 debut, RuPaul’s Drag Race has shifted from a niche American reality show anomaly to an award-winning global success.

The 8th annual BAFTSS conference, to be held at the University of St Andrews on 16-18 April 2020, will take as its theme “Rethinking Screen Cultures”. At a time when Film, Screen and TV Studies is placing increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh objects beyond the traditional canon, this conference seeks to foreground new directions and methodologies in the discipline.

“You know what you want Andrew,” said Richard Marson to me sagely, “You want PrimeTime .” He was probably right. I mean, Richard’s brilliant. Go and buy his book The Blue Peter Diaries (2017) about his time as editor on this Big BBC Brand. Best eighteen quid we’ve spent on a book in a long time.

In this concluding post on Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot , a critical evaluation of the series’ final scenes as well as its wider cultural, political and ideological importance will be provided. In accordance with previous posts, this analysis will draw from the work of Todd McGowan in order to provide a final precis on the significance of the gaze as used in the series.

Location: Central London (UK), more details TBC. 2020 marks 100 years since the publication of Sigmund Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” A turning point in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the essay complicated the pursuit of pleasure led by the sexual instinct or libido, ushering in a second, competing desire that moves life in the opposite direction and down a path of negativity and destruction, articulated by Freud as the