Abstracts and submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives welcome.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Professorial Lecture: Doctor Who: A British Alien?

As we have reached the end of 2017, I thought it would be a good idea to do a recap on the programmes that were broadcast by Greek television, a detailed review of the typology and quality of the televised product that was “served” to the Greek audience. As I was thinking what kind of entertainment programmes, TV series, reality shows, talent shows etc.

Nurse Jackie began in 2009 as an original, fascinating show about a nurse addicted to oxycontin, created by Liz Brixius, Linda Wallem, and Evan Dunsky. Dunsky left the team after the second year of the seven season show, but Brixius and Wallem, who were a couple off-screen, continued to be partnered showrunners until the beginning of the fourth season.

I have spent much of the last two years in the company of a long dead British actor.

Conference Call for Papers Ireland, 27/28/29 July 2018. Hosted by the Dublin Workers Film Festival, the Progressive Film Club and the Radical Film Network Dublin. The Radical Film Network is an international network of organisations involved in politically-engaged and/or aesthetically innovative film culture. Dublin is the host for the 2018 Radical Film Network interdisciplinary conference.

With the invention of radio, the stories that we heard came to us through the airwaves. In the past, audiences tuned in to listen to their favorite shows, including soap operas/serialized narratives. With the advertisers’ support (mainly soap and detergent companies in the US context), radio channels produced and aired serial dramas regularly.

Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85 Call for papers A Conference at the School of Music, University of Leeds 8-9 June 2018 With the support of the Sadler Seminar fund at the University of Leeds Convenors for the University of Leeds: Tim Boon, Marian Jago, James Mooney, Simon Popple and Edward Venn ‘Music 625’ refers to the television era ushered-in by the higher definition output of BBC2 in 1964.

Symposium on Sport and Media, Loughborough University, May 16-17 2018 Changing the rules of the game?

‘Islamophobia’ and ‘race’ are contested terms in contemporary political and media discourse around the world(Hajjat & Mohammed, 2013; Massoumi et al., 2017; Sayyid & Vakil, 2009). In the case of heated debates in France, for example, academic and/or antiracist arguments – themselves far from homogenous – struggle to be heard, and these terms are often censored more or less explicitly.

CALL FOR PAPERS/CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Edited Book Publisher: Edward Elgar The Nordic Wave in Place Branding Editors: Cecilia Cassinger*, Andrea Lucarelli**, Szilvia Gyimóthy*** Nordic place branding is an emerging field of academic research and practice. The evolution, expansion, and geographical spread of place branding in the Nordic region has been studied in several ways and is echoed in recent journal articles and special issues.