Story Work for a Just Future Exploring Diverse Experiences and Methods within an International Community of Practice

EDEN: All Island Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the Early Doctoral Exchange Network (EDEN) at NUI Galway ‘2019: Between a Rock and a Robot: Humans, Habitat, and Technology’ National University of Ireland, Galway Dates: 26-27th of April Plenary Speaker: Diane Negra, MRIA, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture EDEN invites postgraduate and early doctoral

“… these violent delights have violent ends” Contemporary screen violence is inextricable from seismic shifts in gender relations, growing schisms in personal and political belief systems, and a polarization of public sentiment, highlighted in the Anglo-American West in the election of Donald Trump in the US and the Brexit referendum in the UK. We have witnessed growing racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism and misogyny.

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

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 and Presentations Batman in Popular Culture Conference Friday, April 12 and Saturday April, 13 2019 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA The Department of Popular Culture and the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Batman in Popular Culture […]

14th SAAS Conference “The Image and the Word: Interactions between American Literature, Media, Visual Arts and Film” University of Salamanca (Spain) 10-12 April, 2019 Word and image play an important role in perception.

The differences in pay received by men and women in broadcasting will be starkly revealed when broadcasters and production companies publish their gender pay data. All companies with over 250 employees must do this by the start of April.