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.

The University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University are happy to present The NECS 2018 Conference Media Tactics and Engagement 27-29 June 2018 Hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam Pre-Conference Media in Transition 26 June 2018 Hosted by Utrecht

Temporality and normativity are interwoven with one another: Timings convey norms and normative shifts. Rhythms enforce forms of life, conveying rules and principles. Flows of time fit experience and expectation to one another producing specific versions of past, present and future. The end of time conjures up both utopian and dystopian visions.

We are very pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for the forthcoming event ‘ 25 Years of Jurassic Park (1993): An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Paleontological Imagination ’ will be Dr Steve Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh. Dr Brusatte is a paleontologist who is also passionate about education and communicating science to the public.

**CALL FOR PAPERS ** The group Tecmerin (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), within the Research Project “Cine y televisión en España 1986-1995: modernidad y emergencia de la cultura global” (CSO2016-78354-P), organizes the International Conference “ Cinema, TV and Popular Culture in the 1990s: Spain-Latin America ” on October 17th, 18th and 19th, 2018 (5th Tecmerin Academic Encounter). The 1990s are the beginning of a new

Call for Papers: deadline for submission of abstracts: 15th January 2018. Colour in Context Symposium, University of Bristol. Friday 23rd March 2018. Key note speaker: Professor Lynda Nead, Birkbeck. Call for Papers: Colour – its specific hues, meanings and perception – are a contentious issue in the study of film.

Circulating across Europe? Transgressive Narratives about the Past Workshop at Harvard University 28-29 August 2018 Convenors: Dr Félix Krawatzek and Dr George Soroka In recent years, scholars have increasingly come to challenge the reductionist view of a Europe conceived primarily in terms of East and West.

2017 was something of an eventful year for British actor Jodie Whittaker. When the BBC announced on the 16th of July that she would be the one to replace the incumbent Peter Capaldi as the star and titular character of Doctor Who , her public profile was elevated to heretofore unseen heights.

“A Part of Something Bigger”: Critical Approaches to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers A Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association Co-Editors: Erin Giannini and Eve Bennett Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fan art Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. / The Avengers represent something of an anomaly in the Whedonverse/Mutant Enemy

The first month of the new year, as has been the case now since 2012, heralds the start of another new series of the BBC’s flagship and consistently highly rated Sunday night drama of community nursing, midwifery and medicine Call the Midwife . Promos and advance publicity for the seventh series have primed audiences for the introduction to the regularly recurring cast of characters of a nurse of colour, for the first time in its

The recent resurgence in the popularity of comics and graphic novels has been accompanied by a concurrent expansion of the wider comics field.