Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Friday 31 March — Saturday 1 April (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.

Conference at Aarhus University, Centre for Children’s Literature 30 May – 1 June 2017 Children and young people live in a mediatized world in which literature, other visual and verbal texts, media and platforms converge and coalesce. Established notions of producers and users, target groups, genres and literary forms and experiences are thereby challenged.

Cities in Crisis: Cinema, Media and Urban Space Event to be held at the following time, date and location: Saturday, 19 November 2016 from 09:30 to 19:00 (GMT) King’s College London Department of Geography Room K4U.12 4th Floor, King’s Building WC2R 2LS London United Kingdom View Map Attend Event Share this event: Researchers from the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London are

23-24 November 2016 University of Copenhagen, Keynote Speakers Roberto Olla, Executive Director, Eurimages Ib Bondebjerg, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen The European Co-production Symposium will explore co-production as the expression of a complex political and economic apparatus, and aims to bring to light the intricacies of producing a film across national borders with different

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Innovations and Tensions Italian Cinema and Media in a Global World The American University of Rome 9-10 June 2017 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, published by Intellect Ltd. since 2012, is a peer-reviewed triannual journal. JICMS is the leading English-language forum for theoretical, methodological and critical debate on Italian film and media production, reception and consumption.

Bridging Gaps : Where is the film scholar in Hollywood filmmaking? Performance Café, University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA  March 18-19, 2017 There have been significant debates on gaps between filmmakers and film scholars.

Female Expertise in the Birthing Show: A Transnational Study Dr. Sofia Bull, University of Southampton 18th January 2017, 12:00-13:00, [Room TBC] All welcome. To register email Sara De Benedictis: sara.debenedictis@nottingham.ac.uk This seminar series is supported by the Wellcome Trust. Co-hosted by the Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group and Health Humanities.

Changing the Narrative around Birth: Midwives Views of Working with the Media Prof. Vanora Hundley, University of Bournemouth 14th December 2016, 12:00-13:00, [Room TBC] This seminar series is supported by the Wellcome Trust. Co-hosted by the Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group and Health Humanities. Twitter: @TelevisingBirth All welcome.

Decision-making as interactional practice in conversations between women and HCPs during labour: Insights from One Born Every Minute Dr. Clare Jackson, University of York – 23rd November 2016, 12:00-13:00, [Room TBC] This seminar series is supported by the Wellcome Trust. Co-hosted by the Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group and Health Humanities. Twitter: @TelevisingBirth  All welcome.

TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH EVENTBRITE November 18th 2016 Silverstone Room – TW3.7.01.A London School of Economics and Political Science One million migrants crossed the borders of Europe in 2015, in, what came to be known as the “refugee crisis”. This Symposium focuses on the mediation of this “crisis” at a trans-European and local level, in order to address the questions:  * How is “the refugee crisis” communicated in