How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the restrictions of prose-only analyses. One answer is the audiovisual essay, in its poetic and analytic variants. These have recently taken off in the UK, especially in film studies, as a result of the significant loosening of copyright law, which now explicitly allows quotation of audiovisual works for the purposes of critical comment and review.

Booking is now open for the season of ‘Forgotten TV Dramas’ at BFI Southbank, London in February 2017.

Theorising the Popular Conference 2017 Liverpool Hope University, June 21 ^st -22 ^nd 2017 The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its seventh annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2017 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their

Booking now open (£10/£5 students): http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/bw This workshop will bring together scholars interested in how war has been broadcast to the public in the 20th and 21st centuries. From the early use of radio, through to newsreel, television, 24-hour news, and now social media, the ways in which war has been broadcast has constantly evolved.

CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism July 27-29 2017 East Carolina University Greenville, NC Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.

22 February 2017, NFT3, BFI Southbank, London, 11-6pm. An event co-hosted by the BFI, Learning on Screen/BUFVC and the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway (in association with the AHRC-funded ‘Forgotten Television Drama’ research project) Rationale ·

Department of Communication and Media, March 16th 2017 Organisers: Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen, Tina Askanius and Zaki Habibi Fear is a key factor in today’s media landscape. A dynamics of fear frequently frames the news about the environment or immigration, it dominates discourses of security and surveillance, and it permeates people’s lived experiences in precarious times.

The NECS 2017 Conference SENSIBILITY AND THE SENSES Media, Bodies, Practices Paris, France 29 June to 01 July 2017 Hosted by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Pre-Conference 27 and 28 June 2017 Hosted by the Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 Keynote presentations Centre Pompidou Grand Amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2017 Please note that the membership fee must be paid before submission

Join the International Media Education Summit (III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIA EDUCATION AND DIGITAL COMPETENCE) in Segovia in June 2017. Each year the summit brings together a global network of media educators and media literacy practitioners to share research, pedagogy and innovation on all aspects of media education, media literacy education and media / technology in education.

You are cordially invited to participate in a one-day symposium ‘The Future of Public Service Media in Europe: Freedom, Independence and Media Relations with the State’ , organised by the LSE Department of Media and Communications and supported by the Programme on Modern Poland, Collegium Civitas, the LSE Media Policy Project and Polis.