When: May 11th – 14th 2021 Where: Online Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Dyer (King’s College London) and Dr Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkley) Institution: The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh This conference aims to examine how LGBTQ representation has changed through time, continues to evolve in the present, and what […]

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

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

Cultures of Authenticity: A two-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC), Loughborough University, 6 ^th -7 ^th May 2020

Broadcasting, Reloaded.

CFP: ‘Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures’ When: May 21st – 22nd 2020 The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh Futures Institute and genderED, University of Edinburgh Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Dyer (King’s College London) and Dr Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkeley) This conference aims to examine how LGBTQ representation has changed

Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary symposium at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, to explore Murder and True Crime in the Media. The one-day conference is on Friday 29 ^th May 2020. Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Sarah Moore, author of Crime and the Media (2014, Palgrave Macmillan)

The last five years have seen a sea change in debates around regulation of digital platforms. There is a growing view that nation-state regulation is warranted to address public concerns about the market power, lack of accountability and lack of transparency of the leading tech giants. This symposium will bring together communications and media policy and industry researchers to consider critical issues around digital platform regulation.

Contemporary European audiovisual production – film, television as well as online videos – engages with history in a variety of ways. This conference will focus on emerging perspectives that capture ongoing developments across Europe.

4th INTH Network Conference Call for papers The International Network for Theory of History (INTH) is pleased to announce that its fourth network conference will take place in Puebla, Mexico on 6, 7 and 8 May, 2020 at Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’, Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP). Histories are not […]