ESA RN-18 mid-term conference, Turin, Italy, 10-12/9/2020 We live in times of deepening economic, political, social, ideological and ecological crises that are expressed in widespread precarious labour, the commodification of (almost) everything, the rise of new nationalism, populism and authoritarian forms of capitalism, and ecological destruction.

Editors: Karrȧ Shimabukuro and Wickham Clayton On first consideration it may not seem like “nostalgia” and horror and slasher films have any clear connections. Usually nostalgia is applied to events and experiences that have a pleasant connotation, even if these pleasant feelings are a result of a rose-tinted view of the past.

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

Edited by Professor Richard J. Hand (University of East Anglia) & Professor Mark O’Thomas (University of Greenwich)   We are seeking chapters that engage with the television series American Horror Story created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

Call for Chapter Proposals: The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities Gavin Miller, Anna McFarlane, and Donna McCormack (eds). The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities will be a key intervention, analysing and exploring the fruitful intersection between science fiction and the field of the medical humanities.

Ecstatic Truth V: The Age of the Absurd 27-28th April 2020 (in conjunction with Under_the_Radar, Vienna) plus 29th April – Under_the_Radar symposium, Vienna Call for papers deadline: 16th February 2020 Ecstatic Truth is an annual symposium that explores issues arising from the interface between animation (in all its forms) and documentary (conceptualised very broadly as […]

New Directions in Media and Sociology Research (NDiMS) conference 2020 Gender, Equality and Voice 20 March 2020 | School of Media, Communication & Sociology (University of Leicester). Keynote speakers (confirmed): Dr. Ruth Lewis (University of Northumbria), Dr. Jilly Kay (University of Leicester) Despite decades of social change, the challenge for gender equality remains extremely topical.

organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Nowadays we live and breathe media, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour. News, television, social media, celebrity culture, music, and more.

As the new decade dawns, Disney, Apple, WarnerMedia, and NBCUniversal have launched (or will soon launch) their own streaming platforms. These entrants prove once again that the ecology of television and digital content is one that continuously shifts, raising the question: Is a streaming war in full swing? With legacy media companies and major technology companies entering the ring, has the streaming arena now become too crowded?

Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within our discipline? This conference will be a space where we can come together to set the agenda for television research and education.