Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts Guest editors: Simone Varriale (University of Warwick, UK), Noa Lavie (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel)   Globalization’s cultural effects have gained significant attention in the sociology of culture.

REVISITING NOSTALGIA AND THE HYPERREAL A Symposium at Oxford Brookes University Saturday January 13th 2018 This one day symposium aims to re-examine the discourse, debates, and products of the hyperreal in the light of contemporary media culture’s nostalgic impulses.

In an account of Roland Kirk’s appearance on the television programme Soul! , Gayle Wald argues that the mediation of a television camera “renders the affective power of Kirk’s performance more immediate and more suspenseful than it might have been in a nightclub setting” (2015: 124-125). With these words, Wald explodes dominant myths in jazz regarding the primacy of live performance and counters widely-held suspicions regarding the

Preoccupation with theories and practices of representation and othering, across the breadth of various genres and disciplines, has moved forward debates about positioning in research and modes of constructing and producing knowledge.

As editors of a collection titled The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style , we warmly invite articles that focus on all aspects of American culture, such as literature, television, cinema, music, painting, material culture, photography, theater, and all other that are influenced by the crossovers of highbrow with lowbrow.

We are delighted to announce that from March 12th to 15th , 2018, the School of Humanities, Communication and Library Science, University Carlos III de Madrid, will host the International Interdisciplinary Conference: THE CITY: IMAGES AND IMAGINARIES. This conference aims to offer a diverse view of representations of cities, including the artistic dimensions, as well as the technical, historical, or urban perspectives.

We invite paper proposals for: Cine Excess XI: Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd Birmingham City University (and related screening venues) 9th-11th November 2017 www.cine-excess.co.uk Over the last 11 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers for an event comprising a themed academic conference with plenary talks,

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Internet Television – A Media Industries special section Issue 13, September 2018 – http://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org Editors: Ramon Lobato, RMIT University – ramon.lobato@rmit.edu.au Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan – lotz@umich.edu Julian Thomas, RMIT University – julian.thomas@rmit.edu.au In recent years major over-the-top subscription services including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have been expanding into

edited by Anna Viola Sborgi, Lawrence Napper and Nicoletta Vallorani This issue of Other Modernities will investigate cultural representations of contemporary London, from the viewpoint of the present historical moment, looking back at how the perception of the city’s cosmopolitan identity has developed.

Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV: Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next University of Southampton, May 23 – 25, 2018 Organising team: Shelley Cobb, Linda Ruth Williams, and Natalie Wreyford As researchers of the AHRC-funded project Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK Film Culture 2000-2015 we are proud to host the fourth International Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference in association