Fear 2000: Horror Unbound (Online) Sheffield Hallam University, 10-12 September 2021 Submission Deadline: 31 May 2021 We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and 80-minute panels to be presented at the fifth Fear 2000 conference, Fear 2000: Horror Unbound.

Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI Online Conference School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon November 25-26, 2021 Nature and Overnature in SF and Fantasy Discourses Science Fiction and Fantasy are lasting fields of inquiring into today’s world. They have become privileged means to question issues of aesthetic, ethical, […]

Organisers: Izabella Wodzka, Mathis Gronau, and Brittany Eldridge (UCL) The recent experiences of global pandemic and national lockdowns have forced us to slow down and scale down, but also to deviate from our routines and to rethink our mundane activities. We have become intimately acquainted with the private space of home while simultaneously detached from the public spaces of shared communal life.

The 6th edition of the conference Narrative, Media and Cognition aims to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it meaning.

The 6th edition of the conference Narrative, Media and Cognition aims to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it meaning.

Online Media and History Seminar: MEDIA IN WORLD WAR TWO  Monday, 19 April 2021, 16.30-18.00 (Central European Time) Are you working on World War Two cinema or radio? Are you working on other audio-visual media from 1939 to 1945 for an essay, a thesis or a PhD?

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 Superhero Project: 5th Global Meeting Friday 10th to Sunday 12th September 2021 Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Germany   “This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle – broken, spent, unable to move.

Given the uncertainty of the current context, our intention is to hold a hybrid conference (attendees may deliver their papers online or in person). If this hybrid model were not possible, we would then switch to a fully-online conference.   It has become almost mandatory to start any piece on cosmopolitanism with a reference to Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BC) and his famous claim “I am a citizen of the world”.