Media, Diplomacy and Soft Power: Exploring the Relations Between Emerging Markets and Western Countries   Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 20th-21st, 2019   Confirmed keynote speaker: Stanley Rosen (University of Southern California) A second keynote speaker will be soon announced

Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the eighth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), Ireland, July 16th – 18th, 2019. EUPOP 2018 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms.

Whatever happened to consensus? In the wake of World War II, the United States came to occupy what many proponents of American exceptionalism have long asserted to be a unique place in modern world history. Official and quotidian versions of postwar American self-understanding became dominated by narratives of a nation dedicated to such liberal values as “freedom” and “justice,” both at home and abroad.

Intersectionality as a concept was born at the end of the 1980s, and has proven influential ever since as a method for analysing film and media productions as well as in the fields of critical race and disability studies, feminist theory and transnational studies.

Call for papers: Maison Française d’Oxford 2019 Interdisciplinary Conference: Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction 25-27 April 2019   The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals that examine the themes of race, gender and technology in science-fiction from the classical period to the present, in all media (print, film, television…) and from any continent.

Association of Art Historians 2019 Annual Conference, Brighton 4-6 April: CFP: Stranger Things: Locating design in science fiction and fantasy films Session Convenors: Sally-Anne Huxtable National Museums Scotland s.huxtable@nms.ac.uk Robyne Calvert The Glasgow School of Art r.calvert@gsa.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS – ERC Healthy Self as Body Capital &

Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School Television drama, law and national identity Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers: Friday 6 September 2019, University of Westminster Television drama plays a seminal role in the cultural life of nations, and the way in which it depicts national identities merits scholarly exploration.

Proposals are invited for a one-day symposium to be held at the London School of Economics on 5 ^th April 2019. A pdf version of the call for papers can be found here. As the work of filmmakers including Jill Craigie, Kay Mander and Marion Grierson testify, women have played a significant part in the early decades of British documentary and informational filmmaking.

CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 8 –new directions in comics studies 2018 BIRKBECK COLLEGE LONDON Saturday 10th November 2018   After a year’s hiatus we are delighted to announce this call for papers for the interdisciplinary Transitions 2018 symposium.