Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to “Fake News” to Tweetstorms One-Day Conference: Friday 12 June 2020 London Metropolitan University The election of Donald Trump in November 2016 initiated a presidency that has become the most media-driven and media-critiqued in American history.

Genre/Nostalgia: A one-day film and television studies symposium, University of Hertfordshire, June 30th 2020 Keynote speaker: Dr Kate Egan, Northumbria University: ‘Nostalgia for British Comedy’s Past: Monty Python, the 1960s and 1970s, and Fan Memories’ Film and TV genres and nostalgia have long been intertwined.

Submission Deadline: February 29, 11: 59 p.m. (Pacific Time) Host: Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER) The Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER) welcomes submissions that focus on various aspects of communication in, with and about Eastern and Central Europe.

Centre for Postdigital Cultures annual conference, 4 – 5 June 2020 @ Coventry University, UK CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Kreider + O’Leary Daphne Dragona  Daniel Rourke ‘Infrastructure’ has emerged in recent years as the new academic buzzword.

Conference Dates: 29-30 June 2020 | Conference Location: Canterbury, UK. University of Kent Abstracts: 10th Feb 2020 (Round One) Abstract Submission Form   Keynote: Professor, Dr. Richard Koeck. Chair, Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of Liverpool;

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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.

Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI), De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote speaker: Dr. Shelley Cobb (Associate Professor of Film, University of Southampton). £5 conference free: to be paid in cash upon registration MA travel bursaries available – email cath.postgrad@gmail.com for more information.

This symposium will explore the interaction between word and image within media-based practice research. As creative practice has increasingly found a home within academia, and as digital technologies have made possible new methodologies and forms of output, the hegemony of the written word within arts and humanities scholarship has been challenged from different directions.

This symposium argues that New Queer Horror projects contemporary anxieties within LGBTQ+ subcultures onto its characters and into its narratives, building upon the previously figurative role of queer monstrosity in the moving image.