The bestselling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is increasingly being recognised in scholarship and popular culture as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. In response to what Martin Edwards calls the ‘lazy critical cliché’ of branding Golden Age Detective Fiction as ‘cosy’, this conference will investigate the significance of the Queen of Crime and her writings within academia and popular culture.

The Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway is pleased to host the 15 ^th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, to be held on 9-10 May 2019.

Call for Papers: “London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies”, 18-20 July 2019 Location Notre Dame London Global Gateway 1-4 Suffolk Street London SW1Y 4HG As the inaugural event for SCMS Partners, the University of Notre Dame will partner with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Kings College London (KCL) to present the summer symposium, “London, Cinema and Media Gateway,” July 18-20, 2019.

“… these violent delights have violent ends” Contemporary screen violence is inextricable from seismic shifts in gender relations, growing schisms in personal and political belief systems, and a polarization of public sentiment, highlighted in the Anglo-American West in the election of Donald Trump in the US and the Brexit referendum in the UK. We have witnessed growing racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism and misogyny.

The 4thVampire Academic Conference  Lauderdale House, Highgate Village, London 10th-13thJuly 2019  ‘Hammer, Highgate And The Vampyre’   MAIN THEMES: The Undeath of Hammer Films  The Tall Tale of the Highgate Vampire Two Centuries of Polidori’s The Vampyre   KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: Kim Newman Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster.

A transdisciplinary early-career research Symposium hosted by the LSE Department of Media and Communications Extended abstracts of 750-1,000 words Submission deadline: 15 ^th January 2019 We are currently inviting extended abstracts for papers to be considered for publication at the LSE Department of Media and Communication’s upcoming research Symposium, to be held in London in March 2019.

Folk Horror in the 21st Century, is a two-day conference to be hosted by Falmouth University (UK) on Thursday September 5 and Friday September 6, 2019.

XXVII IAMHIST Conference POWER AND THE MEDIA (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 16-19 July 2019) Confirmed keynote speakers include: James Curran (Goldsmiths, University of London) Jennifer Smyth (University of Warwick) Papers and panels are invited for the 2019 conference of the International Association for Media and History.

Department of Communication and Media | March 14th 2019 | Organisers: Annette Hill and Magnus Johansson Mixed modes of storytelling abound in the contemporary media landscape. There are mixed genres, such as political comedy or docudrama, that mine the generic elements of information and entertainment to create storytelling based on real events.

16-17 December 2019, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London, UK Convenors: Julia Lajta-Novak (Vienna) and Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Durham) Web: https://herstory-reimagined.net How do the lives of historical women become the raw material of novelists and filmmakers?