We wish to foster an international, virtual community of scholars from all disciplines engaged with the study of music and sound in audio-visual media. Our intention is to organise a regular forum for researchers and practitioner-researchers at all levels to present work in supportive and informal sessions, to take place fortnightly from January 2021.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick) Theo D’haen (Leuven University and Leiden University) Janet McCabe
Chapter proposals are invited for a proposed edited companion on the seminal television series The X-Files (1993-2018, Fox), its movies, spin offs ( The Lone Gunmen , Millennium ), and surrounding paratextual material (books, comics, fan fiction etc). The X-Files became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s, transforming from a cult TV show into a pop cultural phenomenon by the end of the decade.
The Tropics has long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to non-indigenous peoples due to the hostility of its climate; it persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour;
Confirmed Keynotes: Dr Dima Ayoub, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies, Middlebury College. Dr Golnar Nabizadeh, Lecturer in Comics Studies, Dundee University. Kenny Glenaan, BAFTA Scotland winning theatre, television and film director: https://www.kennyglenaan.com/ For the 2021 edition of the Association of Adaptation Studies conference, we are seeking proposals on the topic of Journeys: Memory and Migration.
DWFTH 5 revised for 2021: New call for papers–‘Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now.’ A Hybrid Conference: July 10 – 11, 2021 (virtual and on-campus at Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland) Supported by Women’s Film & Television History Network, this call for papers is made in collaboration with ‘Women and the BBC’, a special themed issue of Critical Studies in Television.
Issue edited by Fanny Beuré and Jules Sandeau This issue of TV/Series will focus on the relationship between stars and TV series within diverse cultural and historical contexts.
With Disney+, Apple TV+, and NBC’s Peacock joining Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, Hulu, Crunchyroll, ESPN+, and CBS All Access, industry observers and tech writers have declared that we now live in an era of “peak streaming TV.” Yet, even as this surfeit of services promises easy access to immense archives of video content – both past and present – it is worth asking what gaps, fissures, and fractures might exist within these collections;
In 2022, one hundred years will have passed since the formation of the British Broadcasting Company, later to become the pioneering public service broadcaster best known as the BBC. The BBC has had an enormous impact on television culture in its first one hundred years, providing a blueprint for independent publicly funded broadcasting.
Guest editors: Katharina Niemeyer (University of Québec in Montréal) Magali Uhl (University of Québec in Montréal) Deadline for full proposals: 15th November 2020 (for publication in May 2021). What place does or could Jean Baudrillard occupy in media studies, visual studies, and art theory today?