Association of Adaptation Studies Conference 7-9 June 2023, School of EDACS, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom In the last few years, there has been a number of discussions around authenticity in our cultural narratives: who can play what role? Who can write a particular story? These have come from both audiences and the larger film and literature industry, underpinned by the idea of authenticity.

FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 20-22 June 2023 (in-person) Deadline for submissions (20-minute presentations, panels of three 20-minute papers, or practice-based research/workshops): 16 January 2023.

Doing Women’s Film and Television History VI: Changing Streams and Channels 14 – 16 June 2023 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Doing Women’s Film and Television History is back in 2023! Join us at the University of Sussex for the 6th edition of this leading international conference on women’s film and television history.

Website: https://www.baftss.org/conference-2023.html The 2023 annual conference, taking place at the site of the inaugural BAFTSS conference of 2013 at the University of Lincoln, takes as its theme ‘Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Responsibility and Care in Film, Television, Screen Studies and Practices’. Recent years have seen academics and practitioners grapple with the ethical dimensions of film, television and screen studies and of screen

CfP: edited collection on Utopian Fictions Essays Dismantling Popular Myths about Utopia and Dystopia in Literature, Film, and Television Utopia has an image problem. In today’s political discourse, utopianism is often read in two competing directions.

Tales of explorers and adventurers often blur the line between science and fiction, with chronicles of the exotic and the unknown becoming the stuff of legends and the building blocks of history. Explorer’s tales spin heroic stories of adventures that cross borders, shatter boundaries, develop new knowledge, and, in so doing, depict the causes and consequences of seeking dominion over people and places.

Thus far, the TV Dictionary project has gathered an impressive number of 80 short video essays. Seeing these videographic works from the perspective of East-Central European scholars and television aficionados, what catches our attention (besides their aesthetic quality and theoretical/historical insight) is one tiny little thing.

The UK’s Channel 4 turns 40 on 4 November 2022. How can we assess the achievements (and failures) of this unique broadcasting initiative? The UK’s fourth TV channel was set up by a conservative government to be innovative in the form and content of programmes. Now it is just one small group of channels among the hundreds that are available. Conceived as the agent of change in the TV industry, has it now served its purpose?

Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2022 Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Carl Wilson In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our cultures, histories, and narratives, the editors welcome chapter proposals for selection and inclusion into The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies , for which a contract has already been signed.

Call for articles for the 17th issue of the journal Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias https://journals.openedition.org/ges/ Ages of life, ages on screen: P assag es, thresholds, transitions and gendered evolutions. How  are  the  thresholds  and  transitions  linked