University College Cork, 24 November 2018 From the earliest moments of its existence, the optimistic dream of America has been underpinned by a much darker sense of anxiety and paranoia.

Call for papers for free one day conference: Understanding the social in a digital age: An interdisciplinary conference on media, technology, and the social The pervasiveness of social media has led to both the rise and erasure of ‘the social’. The social is increasingly evasive, at once found everywhere and nowhere.

This workshop call for papers invites presentation proposals pertaining to any aspect(s) of queerness in contemporary television during the period from 2000 to the present. Topics pertaining to cultural and/or television studies at the intersection of gender/sexuality studies and/or queer theory are invited from scholars, educators, and students of various levels and disciplines.

Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship Leeds Central Library 20-21 September Call for Papers Deadline extended to the 23rd of July 2018. Comics Forum 2018 is the tenth anniversary of the annual conference series.

The 1st Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication will take a comparative and global approach to the study of media and populism across time.

CALL FOR PAPERS Global Intersections and Artistic Interconnections: Italian Cinema and Media across Times and Spaces Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Second International Conference The American University of Rome 14-15 June 2019 Keynote Speaker Professor Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University

Call for Papers *Sound Collectives: The Acoustics of the Social in American Film and Literature * An International Conference, Dec. 7-8, 2018, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the material and virtual spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices audible.

CALL FOR PAPERS: What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness 13-14 December 2018   Third biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) Department of Applied Linguistics / Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium   Deadline for proposals: 30 JUNE 2018 Contact: whatnews@vub.be

Call for Papers and Presentations Batman in Popular Culture Conference Friday, April 12 and Saturday April, 13 2019 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA The Department of Popular Culture and the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Batman in Popular Culture […]

A symposium at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts University of Sussex 4th and 5th September 2018 The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the context of large-scale violence and death has a long history.