Serialised Storytelling organises the second international conference “Cultures, memories, values” hosted by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, the Netherlands. Conference date: 30th and 31st of October 2017. Storytelling in a serialised form has become a popular vehicle to convey certain values, key events and many specific traits of a given culture.

Transformations of Television Industries Transformations of Television Consumption Practices Transformations of Televisual Aesthetics, Narratives and Identities 21 ^st Century Transnational and Transmedia Television Practices Wednesday the 13 ^th of September to Friday the 15 ^th of September, 2017, University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London.

6-8 September 2017 University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB Deadline for proposals EXTENDED:

University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom 23 June 2017 This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media.

Hosted by the Media Convergence Research Centre, Bath Spa University One-Day Symposium: Thursday 8th June 2017 Confirmed Keynotes: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim, Bournemouth University John Mateer, University of York Prof Bambo Soyinka, Bath Spa University The Media Convergence Research Centre at Bath Spa University is proud to be hosting the 2017 Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iain Smith, Lecturer at King’s College London The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its sixth annual postgraduate conference. Cinema and television have always been media that operate on the boundaries of social, technological and artistic change.

The third annual IWA Cardiff Media Summit entitled “The future of media in Wales” is being held on March 29 ^th , 2017 in Cardiff. Hosted by the IWA in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and University of South Wales, and supported by ITV Cymru Wales, S4C and TAC, the summit will open with analysis on the likely future of the media in Wales. BBC Director of Content, Charlotte Moore, will take part in an in-depth interview.

In 1978 Susie Orbach declared fat a feminist issue. This slim volume of writing put forward a radical new understanding of feminine embodiment and the gendered psychology of eating. Taking place almost four decades later, this one-day conference will revisit the terrain explored by Orbach and open out new themes of analysis by examining contemporary feminist perspectives on food.

Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 5th International Conference CUNY School of Journalism New York City, USA August 31-September 1, 2017 Conference Keynote Speaker: Andrew Mendelson Associate Dean & Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Conference Key Media Speaker: Tim Harper Journalist &

This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media.  The advent of digital media has underlined the importance of visual culture and our curiosity in representations of the body to form opinions about ourselves and others.