The recent resurgence in the popularity of comics and graphic novels has been accompanied by a concurrent expansion of the wider comics field.

Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2018 Facts: True, Alternative, Evolving with a special focus on Entertainment Franchises The University of Amsterdam | 27-28 September 2018 Confirmed Keynotes: Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK) Professor Christine Geraghty (Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Glasgow) We live in a ‘post truth’ world

Issue Guest Editors: Claire Perkins (Monash University) and Michele Schreiber (Emory University) Working in television has historically been considered ‘bread and butter’ labour for female filmmakers around the world.

Web page: https://kmitd.github.io/recoding-black-mirror/ One day workshop The WEB Conference 2018 24 April 2018, Lyon =====MOTIVATION===== Black Mirror is a British sci-fi series directed by Charlie Brooker portraying a dystopian future emanating from the wide use of digital advancements.

The start of the 21st century is marked by a persistence of nostalgic feelings; there is a lasting tendency in politics, culture, and the entertainment industry to use nostalgia as a tool to engage people in voting, buying, consuming, and “productively” participating in societies, in both Western countries and across the world.

Call For Papers: Media, War and Conflict Journal 10 ^th Anniversary Conference Spaces of War, War of Spaces, May 22nd-23rd 2018 Media, War & Conflict Journal’s tenth anniversary conference will be held on 22-23 May 2018 at Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy.

Reading Westworld – Edited Collection Coined in the early twentieth century, the term ‘robot’ conjures up images of man-made machines, artificial bodies, A.I.s and more recently, cyborgs. From Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) to Spike Jonze’s Her (2013), every narrative of artificial life shares common themes – they are stories of identity, desire, rebellion and protest.

Call for Papers for an Interdisciplinary Conference on Nostalgia in Contemporary Culture University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (in association with the University of Oulu and Linnaeus University) 4-5 June 2018 Funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS)

One Day Symposium, 28th April 2018, University of Edinburgh Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Manchester Metropolitan University) We live in scary, uncertain times. In recent years, we have witnessed the rise of hard-line nationalism, the ascendency of racist alt-right politics and attacks on the increasingly fragile-looking institution of democracy.

CFP:  Queering Girlhood  –  Special Issue of Girlhood Studies In the more than ten years since Marnina Gonick directly challenged the field by asking, “Are queer girls, girls?” (2006: 122), girls’ studies has grown into a formidable, expansive, and increasingly recognized area of academic discourse.