https://transnationalpopculture.weebly.com/ Call for Contributions Changing minds changes lives. Popular culture has enormous discursive power which creates meaning through storytelling and performance, and can thus be used as a political tool for social change. Arts and Humanities put the human at the centre of analysis and provide a methodological framework for cultural, social and economic critique.

This conference aims to forge interdisciplinary links between those working in Television and Media Studies, Modern Languages and Gender Studies. Television and media research is changing, the rapid evolution of this medium has been theorised in terms of the technological advances that changing modes of distribution bring, its textual, narrative and aesthetic developments, and its role as a mediator of cultural identity.

HORROR, CULT AND EXPLOITATION MEDIA IV: A WORKSHOP FOR PHD STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS Northumbria University, UK, 7 May 2020

Hidden Figures of Screen Music and Sound One-day conference Tuesday 23 June 2020 Royal Holloway, University of London Deadline for proposals: Friday 27 March 2020 Much current academic and cultural discourse is rightly devoted to questions of representation, and to exposing structures of inequality.

Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to “Fake News” to Tweetstorms One-Day Conference: Friday 12 June 2020 London Metropolitan University The election of Donald Trump in November 2016 initiated a presidency that has become the most media-driven and media-critiqued in American history.

ECREA preconference on the relevance and persistence of traditional media co-organized by three ECREA Thematic Sections: Communication History, Radio Research, Television Studies. Media and communication studies today especially focus on questions surrounding how digital media and digitization have changed and revolutionized previous media ecologies.

Genre/Nostalgia: A one-day film and television studies symposium, University of Hertfordshire, June 30th 2020 Keynote speaker: Dr Kate Egan, Northumbria University: ‘Nostalgia for British Comedy’s Past: Monty Python, the 1960s and 1970s, and Fan Memories’ Film and TV genres and nostalgia have long been intertwined.

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2020 that will take place at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, from 12-21 July, 2020 (full-day program from 13 to 20 July;

Submission Deadline: February 29, 11: 59 p.m. (Pacific Time) Host: Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER) The Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER) welcomes submissions that focus on various aspects of communication in, with and about Eastern and Central Europe.

Centre for Postdigital Cultures annual conference, 4 – 5 June 2020 @ Coventry University, UK CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Kreider + O’Leary Daphne Dragona  Daniel Rourke ‘Infrastructure’ has emerged in recent years as the new academic buzzword.