The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry

Keynotes: Dr Lisa Glebatis Perks, Merrimack College Dr Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University Binge-watching is a term that, by now, encompasses a number of shifts in contemporary television culture, from changing modes of viewing, to variations in the way television on streaming platforms organises itself, to developments of narrative structures in ‘bingeable’ series.

International conference . Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London Dates : 29-30 March 2019 Confirmed speakers : Stephen Bann (Bristol); Rebecca Coleman (Goldsmiths); Paolo Jedlowski (Calabria); Anna Reading (KCL); Michael Rothberg (UCLA) Proposals for panels or papers by 31

14th SAAS Conference “The Image and the Word: Interactions between American Literature, Media, Visual Arts and Film” University of Salamanca (Spain) 10-12 April, 2019 Word and image play an important role in perception.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Legacy of Watership Down: Animals, Adaptation, Animation An interdisciplinary symposium University of Warwick Saturday 10th November 2018   Keynote speaker: Dr Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University) 2018 marks 40 years since the release of Watership Down, Martin Rosen’s acclaimed 1978 animated film.

Literature/Film Association Annual Conference SPACE, PLACE & ADAPTATION November 29-December 1, 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Keynote: Christopher Schaberg, Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans Holding our annual conference in New Orleans raises questions of space, place, and adaptation in the study of literature, film, and media.

New research agendas for the study of sports media (re)presentation(s) of sportswomen and femininity symposium, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences of Northumbria University on 12th October 2018, is now open. For more details or to book, please visit the BSA website.

Organised by the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures of the University of Hull with support from the Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies project (part of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative) A recent article in the Evening Standard posed the question ‘Is it a coincidence that just as governments are seeking to close their borders, television is opening them?’ (March 15 2017). Indeed, in

Adaptation and the Protean Poetics of Margaret Atwood Laboratoire TIL (EA 4182) Center for Canadian Studies (Dijon) Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté Dijon, France, February 1st, 2019 Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry.

CALL FOR PAPERS “ILLUSTRATION AND ADAPTATION” International conference organised by TIL and ILLUSTR4TIO University of Burgundy, 10 & 11 October 2019 Keynote speakers: Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University, UK) and Dave McKean (artist, UK) Illustr4tio’s forthcoming bilingual international conference will deal with the relationship between illustration and adaptation.