Organized in partnership with: University of Brighton / The Glasgow School of Art / The OA Zine / Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne This international online conference will focus on both seasons of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s acclaimed television series The OA that went missing 4 years ago.

“Another world is not only possible; she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy

Conference website: https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-conference/ The conference will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range of experiences and identities.

Hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London Paper, panel, and roundtable proposals are now invited for the 2024 ‘Media Industries’ conference (‘MI2024’). After the success in 2018 of the inaugural conference ‘Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions’, unfortunately the planned 2020 conference had to be cancelled due to Covid lockdowns.

Organiser: British Sociological Association, Media Study Group CfP PDF: https://tinyurl.com/2k6nu4qt We are living in unusual times. As such, recent and ongoing events — including the pandemic, the energy/ cost of living crisis, the war in Ukraine — provide an opportunity to look again at our ideas about the role and operation of media at times of sustained crises and conflicts.

Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Keynote Speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz Date: September 23-24 The University of Pittsburgh Film and Media Studies Program is pleased to announce “Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media,” its twelfth

Ever since the publication of American sociologist Louis Wirth’s 1945 article “The Problem with Minority Groups,” the term “minority” has referred to groups of individuals who receive unequal treatment and are subjected to discrimination because of physical or cultural characteristics[1]. The definition of “minority” has, particularly since the advent of intersectional scholarship[2], evolved to take into consideration the variety of ways in

Call for papers website : https://sites.google.com/view/replayingcommunism/symposium/call-for-papers In 1988, on 15 March, a day synonymous with national independence and democracy, over 10,000 Hungarians chanted Sándor Petőfi’s infamous poetic cry – ‘no more shall we be slaves’ – as they formed the largest anti-Government demonstration since the 1956 Revolution.

CFP: The War Face on Screen, a one-day symposium, Thursday 6th July 2023, University of Leeds  Deadline: Tuesday 2 May 2023 The central research question for this symposium is: how have images of the face been used on screen to document the phenomenon of war?

Keynote Speakers Concepción Cascajosa Virino (UC3M) Paul Julian Smith (CUNY) Streaming Wars: The New Hispanic TV Series is an international virtual workshop centered on the increasing significance and prominence of Spanish-language streaming content. Digital platforms are important agents in transmitting values and sociocultural changes, and TV series are one of their key vehicles.