Association of Art Historians 2019 Annual Conference, Brighton 4-6 April: CFP: Stranger Things: Locating design in science fiction and fantasy films Session Convenors: Sally-Anne Huxtable National Museums Scotland s.huxtable@nms.ac.uk Robyne Calvert The Glasgow School of Art r.calvert@gsa.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS – ERC Healthy Self as Body Capital &

Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School Television drama, law and national identity Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers: Friday 6 September 2019, University of Westminster Television drama plays a seminal role in the cultural life of nations, and the way in which it depicts national identities merits scholarly exploration.

Call for chapter proposals Moments in Television: Complexity/Simplicity ; Epic/Everyday ; Sound/Image ; Substance/Style Deadline for chapter proposals 19th November 2018   Part of The Television Series, Manchester University Press Series editors: Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell, Steven Peacock

The “quality” and “post-quality” television moments of the early twenty-first century have resulted in a number of television shows that engage with gender in interesting ways, some advancing critiques of feminism or post-feminism ( UnReal, The Handmaid’s Tale ), others offering new ways of thinking about genderqueer and transitioning individuals ( Transparent, RuPaul’s Drag Race ), and still others thinking about gender at the

Proposals are invited for a one-day symposium to be held at the London School of Economics on 5 ^th April 2019. A pdf version of the call for papers can be found here. As the work of filmmakers including Jill Craigie, Kay Mander and Marion Grierson testify, women have played a significant part in the early decades of British documentary and informational filmmaking.

The Velvet Light Trap is proud to present the CFP for its 85th issue: Bad Objects! The concept of a “bad object” has long been a moving target in media studies. Although the term is rarely defined with any specificity, a “bad object” is typically a text that is used in critical analysis with the implicit or explicit acknowledgement of its perceived violations of “good” taste.

CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 8 –new directions in comics studies 2018 BIRKBECK COLLEGE LONDON Saturday 10th November 2018   After a year’s hiatus we are delighted to announce this call for papers for the interdisciplinary Transitions 2018 symposium.

Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue of “Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies“ Guest-editors: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen, Germany), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden), and Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen, Germany) Digital media, networked services, and aggregate data are beacons of the

Call for Chapters: ‘This Country: UK comedy cultures’ Extended deadline: 20 ^th August 2018.