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,

Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2017 Department of Film, Theatre and Television University of Reading Worldhood and World-Making Call for papers The JAM 2017 postgraduate conference will take place on Tuesday 11th April at the University of Reading with the theme of worldhood and world-making in film, theatre and television.

Somewhat tentatively , I set off for the gigantic 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in Atlanta in early April.

Mad Men [is] arguably the dominant TV drama of its time. — Time critic James Poniewozik, 24 June 2015

In our ‘post-television’ age when the appearance of television drama and film, both shot on digital camera, is increasingly homogenous, ‘old’ multi-camera studio drama must seem like more of an oddity than ever before.

My eyes lit up when I saw her – I’d dreamt of seeing her in the flesh since I first laid eyes on The Bridge ’s detective Saga Noren. Long, fashionably uncombed hair, ethereal beauty, flicking crumbs from her cinnamon bun off her ankle-grazing khaki military coat and leather trousers – this bewitching brunette was the ultimate Saganaut right down to her lace-up ankle boots.

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.

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.