Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 5, 2020 Edited by: Matthew Hill Co-edited by: João Félix Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy.
The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) is happy to invite students and early-career scholars to a full day of workshops right before the 8th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Braga, Portugal. Date: 01 October 2020 Deadline of application: April 05, 2020 Number of participants: 8-10 for each workshop.
The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in revisiting, reproducing or rewriting various aspects of nineteenth-century culture, particularly that of the late Victorian period, whether in the form of neo-Victorian literature, steampunk, media archaeology, fashion, documentaries and period dramas, among others.
The call for papers for articles for the sections “Monograph” and “Miscellaneous” for the Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic is now open. Scholars who wish to contribute to either of these two sections should send us their articles registering as authors on our web page.
Since its 2009 debut, RuPaul’s Drag Race has shifted from a niche American reality show anomaly to an award-winning global success.
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
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.
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Female Detective on TV MAI: Feminism &
HORROR, CULT AND EXPLOITATION MEDIA IV: A WORKSHOP FOR PHD STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS Northumbria University, UK, 7 May 2020
