Adaptation and the Protean Poetics of Margaret Atwood Laboratoire TIL (EA 4182) Center for Canadian Studies (Dijon) Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté Dijon, France, February 1st, 2019 Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry.

Prisoner and Wentworth Edited Book: Chapter Proposals due 21 May 2018 We invite proposals for chapters for an edited collection called Wentworth is the New Prisoner (working title), which is developing in the wake of a successful conference of the same name held in Melbourne in April 2018. We already have interest from publishers.

CALL FOR PAPERS “ILLUSTRATION AND ADAPTATION” International conference organised by TIL and ILLUSTR4TIO University of Burgundy, 10 & 11 October 2019 Keynote speakers: Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University, UK) and Dave McKean (artist, UK) Illustr4tio’s forthcoming bilingual international conference will deal with the relationship between illustration and adaptation.

Following successful symposia on Interiors and Film in New York and Kingston, UK, Professor Pat Kirkham and Kingston University’s Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC: Director Professor Penny Sparke) call for proposals for articles and chapters for two publications. The first is a book that Bloomsbury will publish (Rebecca Barden and her team will be guiding the process at the publishing end).

Prisons, prisoners, and crime are attracting unprecedented levels of interest from both predictable sources (tabloid media) to more unexpected (such as the prison setting of Paddington 2 ). Globally, but especially in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, the real life prison population is rising dramatically.

Political Studies Association: Media & Politics Group Annual Conference 2018 Political Reversals and Renewals University of Nottingham: 8-9 ^th November 2018 The theme for this year’s Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group conference is Political Reversals and Renewals.

SERIES Vol 5 No 2 – Television Serials in Asia – Call for papers This themed issue of Series aims to contribute to the study of television serials produced in the Asian region and make them more widely known. The television serial is a prominent expression of popular culture across Asia, especially in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, but has not been extensively studied.

Sport has long been a prominent feature of scholarly investigation across diverse disciplines including (but not being limited to) education, communication, media studies, tourism, advertising and marketing, public relations, sociology and psychology. However, with the rapid evolution and widespread adoption of new media technologies, the study of sport and its relationship with these disciplines demands recalibration.

We are delighted to announce the Keynote Speakers for this year’s King’s CMCI PhD Conference as Professor Anna Reading from King’s College London and Professor Catherine Grant from Birkbeck, University of London (see details below). The one-day conference will be held on 15 June 2018 at King’s College London . This year, the conference venue has moved to Bush House, former headquarters of the BBC World Service (1940-2012)

Department of Theatre, Film and Television, TFTV University of York Post-Graduate Symposium, 21 ^st June 2018   Technology has radically changed our ways to approach, consume and enjoy media. The aesthetic experience of watching a Netflix series or engaging with the comments section in a newsfeed has become a daily experience we couldn’t have imagined a decade ago.