This symposium seeks to explore the relationships between truth, lies and media consumption throughout history and across media and cultural platforms. Fake news is not new.

The BFI Media Conference is a unique event for teachers of film and media at 16+ and in HE, bringing together an exciting mix of new and creative ideas from the worlds of the media industries, teaching and research.

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.

6-8 September 2017 University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB Deadline for proposals EXTENDED:

University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom 23 June 2017 This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iain Smith, Lecturer at King’s College London The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its sixth annual postgraduate conference. Cinema and television have always been media that operate on the boundaries of social, technological and artistic change.

The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD The VLV is delighted that Lord Puttnam CBE has agreed to deliver the Jocelyn Hay Voice of the Listener & Viewer Lecture 2017. “The Jocelyn Hay VLV Lecture was established to reflect the huge contribution that Jocelyn Hay, our founder, made to public broadcasting and civic debate over thirty years.” said Colin Browne.

2017 UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference The television industry in China has experienced a process of marketisation, diversification, de-ideologisation, and entertainmentisation ever since media reforms of the late 1970s.

Organized by R+D Project “Relationship dynamics in the face of social change: contexts, content, producers, audiences, and produsers in the news programmes of TVE and YLE”. Main Researchers: M. Á. Vázquez Medel and M. Lamuedra Graván Deadline for abstracts: 15 february 2017 More info: https://mediospublicos.wordpress.com/inscripcion/ CALL FOR PAPERS Our system of representation of the

University of Winchester Faculty of Arts Research Seminar. All welcome. Wed 15 Feb, 4.30pm, FWB204 How Free is the BBC? Dr Tom Mills (Aston University) Is the BBC an authentically independent and impartial broadcaster? Or is it a mouthpiece of the government, the state and the Establishment?