“Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture” Conference at Leipzig University, Germany Institute for American Studies 22-23 May 2025 Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert From the freak shows of the 19th century to contemporary odd, extraordinary, or otherwise exceptional characters, the ‘freak’ as a figure has seen tremendous popularity throughout US literature

Dennis Wheatley sold around one million books a year at the height of his popularity and over 50 million in total.

Final Call for Papers Push: Childbirth in Global Screen Culture Amy C. Chambers, Xi W. Liu, Kate Taylor-Jones, Proposals due: 1st July 2024 After an impressive response to our initial call for papers we are in the process of bringing together an edited collection on this topic.

Call for Papers Queer Children’s Film and TV: Gender, Sexuality and Childhood in Youth Screen Cultures Edinburgh University Press, Children’s Film and Television Series Rachel Milne and Abigail Jenkins (eds.) We are still looking for a couple of chapter proposals to fill some gaps in our forthcoming edited collection, Queer Children’s Film and TV . The collection explores depictions of queerness in and the queerness

se see the following CFP for an edited collected on television series created by Golden Girls creator Susan Harris. Edited by Rosanne Welch This edited volume on the works of Susan Harris will be part of the new SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on television series created by Harris.

KEYNOTES Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero (UC Davis), S. Jonathon O’Donnell (Queen’s University Belfast), Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University) Reprising its first edition, the conference will focus on how US American identities have been shaped, informed, configured, and challenged since the country’s foundation.

The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives.

Dementia Futures Call for Papers 22-24 January 2025  Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester    Conference organisers: MaoHui Deng, Sarah Fox, Kate Maguire-Rosier, and Réka Polonyi Cultural narratives and research around dementia are not usually focused on ideas of a future with dementia.

Editors : Léa Dreyer, Evgenii Kozlov, Pierre-Jacques Pernuit, Clara Royer, Anne-Katrin Weber In 1924, the “Jenkins Picture-Strip Machine,” a wireless-photography transmission device invented by the U.S. television pioneer Charles Jenkins, was used as part of an ambitious astronomy experiment.

The Witcher has had a lasting impression on fantasy across many media forms, first in Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels and, more recently, its many adaptations. Such adaptations have resulted in “extensive, self-contained fictional spaces” (Jański, 2018, p.119) which allows for a variety of characters, environments, and societies to be depicted from the perspective of the outsider.