We invite English abstracts up to 500 words, to be sent in MS Word and PDF format to: posthuman.conference@gmail.com Files should be named and submitted in the following manner: Submission: First Name Last name. docx (or .doc) / .pdf Example: “Submission: MaryAndy.docx” Deadlines: Abstracts should be received by the 1st of April 2018. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by the end of April 2018.

The 2018 Besides the Screen Conference welcomes paper, panel, artwork, installation, and workshop proposals on the theme of archiving and preserving audiovisual materials in the 21st century. The topic of archiving and preservation has gained even more significance as forms and formats of audio visual media continue to exponentially expand.

The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its eighth annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2018 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ subjects.

Doctoral Summer School 2018 Where: *Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media & Communications, UK. When: *4th-6th July, 2018 (Start: Wednesday 4th July 9am – End: Friday 6th July 5pm). For whom: Doctoral students at all stages of their research and early-stage post-docs.

Conference Call for Papers Ireland, 27/28/29 July 2018. Hosted by the Dublin Workers Film Festival, the Progressive Film Club and the Radical Film Network Dublin. The Radical Film Network is an international network of organisations involved in politically-engaged and/or aesthetically innovative film culture. Dublin is the host for the 2018 Radical Film Network interdisciplinary conference.

Temporality and normativity are interwoven with one another: Timings convey norms and normative shifts. Rhythms enforce forms of life, conveying rules and principles. Flows of time fit experience and expectation to one another producing specific versions of past, present and future. The end of time conjures up both utopian and dystopian visions.

The recent resurgence in the popularity of comics and graphic novels has been accompanied by a concurrent expansion of the wider comics field.

CFP:  Queering Girlhood  –  Special Issue of Girlhood Studies In the more than ten years since Marnina Gonick directly challenged the field by asking, “Are queer girls, girls?” (2006: 122), girls’ studies has grown into a formidable, expansive, and increasingly recognized area of academic discourse.

Digital Violence: A Symposium. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom Saturday, November 4 ^th 2017 Keynote Speakers: Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown University) Eugenia Siapera &