Website: http://fift.ugal.ro/30years/ A joint project of the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, the Faculty of Letters, and the Cross-border Faculty of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, the conference is intended as a cultural forum for imparting knowledge and research on the textuality and representation of recent, lived history, from different yet interrelated angles:  History and Memory Studies

For the general conference cfp, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/ For this particular special section call, see https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/permanentsectioncallforpapers/ at “Marxist Literary Group” This permanent section of the Midwestern Modern Languages Association organized by the Marxist Literary Group seeks to examine the economics, politics, and aesthetics of remakes, reboots, and

Sponsored by the Charles University in Prague, the Media Industries and Cultural Production Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and the Czech Society of Film Studies The Eighth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference (SIECE) is following up with the previous year’s topic by providing a forum for discussing the […]

Migrant states of exception proliferate and intensify across the world. While processes of globalization have fostered movement and enhanced connectivity on a hitherto unprecedented scale, they have also brought the highly uneven distribution of elected and enforced mobility to the fore.

CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 8 –new directions in comics studies 2018 BIRKBECK COLLEGE LONDON Saturday 10th November 2018   After a year’s hiatus we are delighted to announce this call for papers for the interdisciplinary Transitions 2018 symposium.

University College Cork, 24 November 2018 From the earliest moments of its existence, the optimistic dream of America has been underpinned by a much darker sense of anxiety and paranoia.

This workshop call for papers invites presentation proposals pertaining to any aspect(s) of queerness in contemporary television during the period from 2000 to the present. Topics pertaining to cultural and/or television studies at the intersection of gender/sexuality studies and/or queer theory are invited from scholars, educators, and students of various levels and disciplines.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Legacy of Watership Down: Animals, Adaptation, Animation An interdisciplinary symposium University of Warwick Saturday 10th November 2018   Keynote speaker: Dr Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University) 2018 marks 40 years since the release of Watership Down, Martin Rosen’s acclaimed 1978 animated film.

Organised by the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures of the University of Hull with support from the Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies project (part of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative) A recent article in the Evening Standard posed the question ‘Is it a coincidence that just as governments are seeking to close their borders, television is opening them?’ (March 15 2017). Indeed, in

Political Studies Association: Media & Politics Group Annual Conference 2018 Political Reversals and Renewals University of Nottingham: 8-9 ^th November 2018 The theme for this year’s Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group conference is Political Reversals and Renewals.