Conference Convenor: Dr Karen McNally, author of The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale (Wallflower–Columbia University Press, 2020) Keynote Speaker: Professor Steven Cohan, Dean’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film and Screen Studies, Syracuse University and author of Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies (OUP, 2019) and Sunset Boulevard

On October 2nd 2021 we will celebrate 70 years of television in the Netherlands. While this is a milestone worth celebrating, it also offers an opportunity to look back at the medium’s rich international histories. Television has survived its many predicted deaths and adapted constantly to changing social, cultural and technological trends and demands.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one-paragraph biography to SoundOnScreen2021@gmail.com by the deadline stated above. The inaugural Sound on Screen conference welcomes submissions from scholars that explore the relationship between music and/or sound and the screen.

The Superhero Project: 5th Global Meeting Friday 10th to Sunday 12th September 2021 Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Germany   “This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle – broken, spent, unable to move.

Given the uncertainty of the current context, our intention is to hold a hybrid conference (attendees may deliver their papers online or in person). If this hybrid model were not possible, we would then switch to a fully-online conference.   It has become almost mandatory to start any piece on cosmopolitanism with a reference to Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BC) and his famous claim “I am a citizen of the world”.

Call for proposals:  Steve McQueen: “I want the burden”. 14th Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium, University of Sussex, online, provisional date: Friday 24 September 2021

Organized by: Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Film and Television Venue: Virtual Zoom Event Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Christian Katzenbach (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin) Robert Prey (University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts) Diğdem Sezen (Teesside University, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Department of Transmedia Digital Art

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2021 that will take place at the University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, mainly from 20-24 September 2021 (with activities before and after these dates). Because of the pandemic situation, it is impossible to plan a physical meeting, so this Summer School will be an online event. THE FOCUS The ECREA

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Giallo! The Long History of Italian Television Crime Drama Special issue edited by Luca Barra (Università di Bologna) and Valentina Re (Link Campus, Rome)

HBO’s recent series Lovecraft Country takes up the monsters of H. P. Lovecraft’s universe, but flips the script to make the heroes an African-American cast battling various demons in the Jim Crow era. Arguably, the show aimed at a re-appropriation or détournement of the pulp legend’s troubling racism, but critics seem divided on the show’s success.