IAMHIST is an international organisation of scholars, filmmakers, broadcasters and archivists dedicated to historical inquiry into film, radio, TV and other media. The study of film and media histories has long been dominated by western, often Eurocentric perspectives, in terms of content, theory and methodology.

This seminar aims to explore TV-series at their intersection with philosophy. As a newer sibling to the sub-discipline of film-philosophy, TV-philosophy neither reduces television series to illustrations of pre-existing ideas, nor does it simply offer a ‘philosophy of’ a given series by exploring it from a range of philosophical angles. It rather sees TV series as capable of expressing thought through their specific forms.

This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of women’s work in and across film, television and related media. The conference seeks to expand women’s film and TV histories by exploring cross-border and cross-medial relationships.

In the 1970s Anglo-American feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines began to explore the problematic representations of women in Hollywood cinema, issues and concerns over female spectatorship, as well as the history of women’s cinema in Hollywood and beyond.

The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, the war in Ukraine has evoked memories of the Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011) disasters besides displaying the extent of globally dispersed nuclear weapon proliferation since the end of the Cold War.

“Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture” Conference at Leipzig University, Germany Institute for American Studies 22-23 May 2025 Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert From the freak shows of the 19th century to contemporary odd, extraordinary, or otherwise exceptional characters, the ‘freak’ as a figure has seen tremendous popularity throughout US literature

Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network Conference 2024 Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston Campus 30th August We invite postgraduate researchers and practitioners working within media, communication and cultural studies to propose contributions for the 2024 MeCCSA PGN conference.

KEYNOTES Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero (UC Davis), S. Jonathon O’Donnell (Queen’s University Belfast), Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University) Reprising its first edition, the conference will focus on how US American identities have been shaped, informed, configured, and challenged since the country’s foundation.

The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives.

Dementia Futures Call for Papers 22-24 January 2025  Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester    Conference organisers: MaoHui Deng, Sarah Fox, Kate Maguire-Rosier, and Réka Polonyi Cultural narratives and research around dementia are not usually focused on ideas of a future with dementia.