There has been a long relationship between television and medicine: some of the small screen’s most popular shows, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been medical in focus, from hospital-set dramas like ER to reality TV shows and docudramas like One Born Every Minute . This fascination with doctors, hospitals and bodies is also shared by period drama television, but scholarship has paid little attention to this

CALL FOR PAPERS Global Intersections and Artistic Interconnections: Italian Cinema and Media across Times and Spaces Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Second International Conference The American University of Rome 14-15 June 2019 Keynote Speaker Professor Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University

Call for Papers *Sound Collectives: The Acoustics of the Social in American Film and Literature * An International Conference, Dec. 7-8, 2018, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the material and virtual spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices audible.

CALL FOR PAPERS: What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness 13-14 December 2018   Third biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) Department of Applied Linguistics / Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium   Deadline for proposals: 30 JUNE 2018 Contact: whatnews@vub.be

Call for Papers and Presentations Batman in Popular Culture Conference Friday, April 12 and Saturday April, 13 2019 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA The Department of Popular Culture and the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Batman in Popular Culture […]

The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry

FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES Commentary and Criticism: Call for Papers 18.6 Gender, Migration, and the Media Contemporary Western mediascapes are overflowing with contradictory images of movement across borders.

Guest editors: Line Nybro Petersen, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark Anne Jerslev, Professor, University of Copenhagen Issue Editor: Christian Hviid Mortensen, Curator, The Media Museum

Scandinavia has always been a hotbed for espionage, owing to its natural resources and geostrategic location surrounded by the European powers Britain, Germany and Russia. A sharp increase in intelligence activities during World War I was picked up by various media.

Keynotes: Dr Lisa Glebatis Perks, Merrimack College Dr Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University Binge-watching is a term that, by now, encompasses a number of shifts in contemporary television culture, from changing modes of viewing, to variations in the way television on streaming platforms organises itself, to developments of narrative structures in ‘bingeable’ series.