CFP: Global Studies of Childhood Special Issue: Children and Popular Culture Guest Editor: Patrick Cox, Rutgers University Childhood and youth are always contested notions, but perhaps nowhere more than in popular culture.

Deadline: 29 Sept 2017 The Bamberg Graduate School of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies (BaGraLCM), in cooperation with the departments of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Bamberg, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on war, trauma, and disease in past and present from March 9 to March 11, 2018.

Call for chapters: Proposals submission deadline: 1st September 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30th September 2017 Full chapters due: 15th January 2018 Planned submission of manuscript: 1st March 2018 Overview: “Science fiction is the major non-realistic mode of imaginative creation of our epoch. Why? Because science and technology are continually changing the conditions of our existence.

Serialised Storytelling organises the second international conference “Cultures, memories, values” hosted by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, the Netherlands. Conference date: 30th and 31st of October 2017. Storytelling in a serialised form has become a popular vehicle to convey certain values, key events and many specific traits of a given culture.

“What’s in the box?” Dean Winchester asks in “The Magnificent Seven,” episode one of the third season of Supernatural , to the befuddlement of his brother Sam and their avuncular mentor Bobby Singer, but to the delight of fans who revel in the show’s wry meta elements. Dean is of course quoting Detective Mills, Brad Pitt’s character in the thriller Se7en (1995), directed by David Fincher.

Science fiction has always indicated that it is a matter of when—not if—some kind of Apocalypse will occur. When it does, what will happen to the organisms that inhabit Planet Earth? Will humans revert to some type of proto-human? Will they “rise” to the occasion and create something better? Will the strong survive, only to subjugate the weak?

We are inviting chapter submissions for a new edited collection focusing on gender and horror. This edited collection aims to re-examine horror in an era of remakes, reboots and re-imaginings.

Transformations of Television Industries Transformations of Television Consumption Practices Transformations of Televisual Aesthetics, Narratives and Identities 21 ^st Century Transnational and Transmedia Television Practices Wednesday the 13 ^th of September to Friday the 15 ^th of September, 2017, University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London.

Hosted by the Media Convergence Research Centre, Bath Spa University One-Day Symposium: Thursday 8th June 2017 Confirmed Keynotes: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim, Bournemouth University John Mateer, University of York Prof Bambo Soyinka, Bath Spa University The Media Convergence Research Centre at Bath Spa University is proud to be hosting the 2017 Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium.

The third annual IWA Cardiff Media Summit entitled “The future of media in Wales” is being held on March 29 ^th , 2017 in Cardiff. Hosted by the IWA in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and University of South Wales, and supported by ITV Cymru Wales, S4C and TAC, the summit will open with analysis on the likely future of the media in Wales. BBC Director of Content, Charlotte Moore, will take part in an in-depth interview.