2017 UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference The television industry in China has experienced a process of marketisation, diversification, de-ideologisation, and entertainmentisation ever since media reforms of the late 1970s.

QUEER SCREENS CONFERENCE 2017 September 2nd and 3rd 2017 The Institute of the Humanities and the Gendered Subjects Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Keynote speaker: Prof.

Organized by R+D Project “Relationship dynamics in the face of social change: contexts, content, producers, audiences, and produsers in the news programmes of TVE and YLE”. Main Researchers: M. Á. Vázquez Medel and M. Lamuedra Graván Deadline for abstracts: 15 february 2017 More info: https://mediospublicos.wordpress.com/inscripcion/ CALL FOR PAPERS Our system of representation of the

Film and Screen Studies, School of Media, University of Brighton 27-28 July, 2017 Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary 2 day conference at the University of Brighton In response to the news of the British government’s imposed changes to junior doctor contracts in 2015, actors from the BBC’s hospital drama Holby City and Channel 4’s […]

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present October 26-28, 2017 Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley at the Oakland Marriott City Center ASAP/9 invites proposals from scholars and artists addressing the contemporary arts in all their forms since the 1960s—literary, visual, performing, musical, cinematic, design, and digital.

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking papers on the subject of television for its annual fall conference to be held on the campus of University of Massachusetts Amherst on October 27-28, 2017. The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2017. NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences which emphasize discussing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment.

10 June 2017 10am–5pm, with a public screening at 6:20pm Venue: NFT3, BFI Southbank, London Featuring a Q&A with screenwriter David Rudkin Including contributions from: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge University), Will Fowler (BFI), Gareth Evans (Whitechapel Gallery), and more tbc.

(linking with VIVA Spanish and Latin American Festival, HOME Arts Centre, Manchester) This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media has responded to the recent economic crisis.  Since 2008, the economic context of precariousness and its aftermath has brought about shifts in Spanish film production and distribution.

The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives announces its forthcoming international seminar to take place in Paris, on March 20th, 2017. The one-day seminar is dedicated to the media coverage of different political and social events that took place in 1968 across the globe.