Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Friday 31 March — Saturday 1 April (linking with VIVA Spanish and Latin American Festival, HOME Arts Centre, Manchester) This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media has responded to the recent economic crisis.

Conference at Aarhus University, Centre for Children’s Literature 30 May – 1 June 2017 Children and young people live in a mediatized world in which literature, other visual and verbal texts, media and platforms converge and coalesce. Established notions of producers and users, target groups, genres and literary forms and experiences are thereby challenged.

Bridging Gaps : Where is the film scholar in Hollywood filmmaking? Performance Café, University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA  March 18-19, 2017 There have been significant debates on gaps between filmmakers and film scholars.

The 27th international Screen Studies Conference will take place at the University of Glasgow, 23-25 June, 2017, programmed by Karen Lury for Screen journal. There is no specific theme this year, and we are therefore pleased to invite proposals on all topics within film and television studies. Pre-formed panels will be considered but not prioritised.

The children’s ’68: call for papers https://children68.hypotheses.org/ This call for papers invites proposals for contributions to a special issue of the online journal of children’s literature and culture Strenae entitled ‘The Children’s ’68’, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of May ‘68. This special issue is part of the work of the international research network The children’s ‘68, led by Dr Sophie Heywood at the University of

In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline: Abstracts for original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until November 22, 2016. The 10th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will be hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of Media, Film and Communication, in partnership with the New Zealand Writers Guild.

Imag(in)ing the Apocalypse University of Western Brittany, 8-10 March

Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2017 Department of Film, Theatre and Television University of Reading Worldhood and World-Making Call for papers The JAM 2017 postgraduate conference will take place on Tuesday 11th April at the University of Reading with the theme of worldhood and world-making in film, theatre and television.

Over the last 15 years, Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies and other publications have featured a range of writing and scholarship about queer issues, identity and representations related to the Whedonverses but there has not yet been a publication dedicated solely to queer Whedon studies.