4th INTH Network Conference Call for papers The International Network for Theory of History (INTH) is pleased to announce that its fourth network conference will take place in Puebla, Mexico on 6, 7 and 8 May, 2020 at Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’, Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP). Histories are not […]

An international conference organized by the Speculative Texts and Media Research Group, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw December 5-7, 2019 American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland For most of its history, or at least since the late 19th century, the core conversations of science fiction (SF) have not been kind to the senses.

Call for Chapters: American Television in the Trump Era Editor: Karen McNally Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 30 June 2019 Donald Trump’s emergence in the field of American politics has had an undeniable and wide-ranging impact on contemporary American television.

For the general conference cfp, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/ For this particular special section call, see https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/permanentsectioncallforpapers/ at “Marxist Literary Group” This permanent section of the Midwestern Modern Languages Association organized by the Marxist Literary Group seeks to examine the economics, politics, and aesthetics of remakes, reboots, and

Riverdale : a comic book turned hit TV show, a comic strip turned murder mystery, a town that is both nowhere and everywhere.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside, USA) Sara Wasson (Lancaster, UK)   ‘Fantastika’ is an umbrella term that embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk or any other radically imaginative narrative space. The sixth annual Fantastika conference will aim to define, challenge and debate conceptualisations of embodiment.

The media coverage of the Brexit Referendum in 2016 focused disproportionately upon the notion that Britain close its borders and reduce immigration if the country left European Union.  Media discourse on the issues of immigration, race and ethnicity are best described as negative, whilst Government policies on immigration, appear to promote a hostile environment in order to deter potential immigrants.

Historically, female filmmakers’ work in television has functioned as a form of invisible labour, with television being seen as definitively distinct from cinema, the site of ‘real’ and hard-won work.

Sponsored by the Charles University in Prague, the Media Industries and Cultural Production Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and the Czech Society of Film Studies The Eighth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference (SIECE) is following up with the previous year’s topic by providing a forum for discussing the […]

Call for Presentations: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III: A Research Workshop for PhDs and Early Career Researchers Friday 3 May 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK