Middelburg, The Netherlands, 10-11 June 2021   The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) is a leading research centre and graduate school, partnered with Leiden University, dedicated to the study of American history, politics, and society. Since 2003, the Institute has organized regular seminars for doctoral students pursuing research in its areas of interest. The RIAS will host its next PhD seminar on 10-11 June 2021.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one-paragraph biography to SoundOnScreen2021@gmail.com by the deadline stated above. The inaugural Sound on Screen conference welcomes submissions from scholars that explore the relationship between music and/or sound and the screen.

The western was once seen as a key genre for understanding both Hollywood and the culture of the United States more broadly, but studies of the genre are few and far between today (Corkin, 2004; Nelson, 2015;

June 17-18, 2021 Berlin (Germany) Deadline: February 10, 2021 A Japanese-German Conference and Edited Volume (2022) Current debates on artificial intelligence often conflate the realities of AI technologies with the fictional renditions of what they might one day become.

Call for papers for the next annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, which will be held from June 1-4, 2021 as part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2021 Congress. This year’s theme is “ Northern Relations .” Congress 2021 is organized this year in partnership with the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick) Theo D’haen (Leuven University and Leiden University) Janet McCabe

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.

https://transnationalpopculture.weebly.com/ Call for Contributions Changing minds changes lives. Popular culture has enormous discursive power which creates meaning through storytelling and performance, and can thus be used as a political tool for social change. Arts and Humanities put the human at the centre of analysis and provide a methodological framework for cultural, social and economic critique.

This conference aims to forge interdisciplinary links between those working in Television and Media Studies, Modern Languages and Gender Studies. Television and media research is changing, the rapid evolution of this medium has been theorised in terms of the technological advances that changing modes of distribution bring, its textual, narrative and aesthetic developments, and its role as a mediator of cultural identity.

Hidden Figures of Screen Music and Sound One-day conference Tuesday 23 June 2020 Royal Holloway, University of London Deadline for proposals: Friday 27 March 2020 Much current academic and cultural discourse is rightly devoted to questions of representation, and to exposing structures of inequality.