The 27th international Screen Studies Conference will take place at the University of Glasgow, 23-25 June, 2017, programmed by Karen Lury for Screen journal. There is no specific theme this year, and we are therefore pleased to invite proposals on all topics within film and television studies. Pre-formed panels will be considered but not prioritised.
TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH EVENTBRITE November 18th 2016 Silverstone Room – TW3.7.01.A London School of Economics and Political Science One million migrants crossed the borders of Europe in 2015, in, what came to be known as the “refugee crisis”. This Symposium focuses on the mediation of this “crisis” at a trans-European and local level, in order to address the questions: * How is “the refugee crisis” communicated in
In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline: Abstracts for original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until November 22, 2016. The 10th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will be hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of Media, Film and Communication, in partnership with the New Zealand Writers Guild.
Imag(in)ing the Apocalypse University of Western Brittany, 8-10 March
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cinema 2 The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Friday 18 November 2016, 2:30-4:00pm Free tickets can be booked at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-in-the-streets-weapons-of-terror-in-the-news-cinema-and-media-art-tickets-26922937230 (seating is limited, so advance booking is advised) An artist, two academics and two journalists selected a series of video fragments that engage with armed violence from recent news media,
Network’s 12-disc collection ITV 60: Celebrating Sixty Years of ITV is a curious exercise. A compilation of 60 ITV programmes to mark the channel’s sixtieth anniversary, its selections derive from three separate sources.
As I write, I’m on the road in Colombia from Barranquilla (see this impressive citizen journalist seeking to enter Shakira’s home there) to Cartagena de Indias, which Francis Drake briefly captured from the Spanish in 1586.
The doctoral thesis is the most problematic aspect of academic endeavour, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Unlike the sciences, where a doctoral student is typically part of a team attached to a research project, in our area it is typically a lone pursuit… and a very lonely one at times.
Last week represented the culmination of over a year’s worth of organization. The ‘ Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity conference’ ostensibly kicked off the academic round of 50 years of Doctor Who celebrations which will culminate in an anniversary special on 23 rd November this year.
In Matt Hills’ 2002 book Fan Cultures, he theorises the relationship between fandom and academia, in particular the way academia and fandom are often imagined as being mutually exclusive with academia, the ‘good subject’, dependent upon the fan as its ‘other’ in order to affirm its subjectivity and institutional legitimisation.