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.
We are living in turbulent and increasingly dangerous times which are in large part defined and influenced by the very thing we study and research, namely media, communication infrastructures, algorithms, and data. Faced with an uncertain future, we can discern both dystopian and optimistic scenarios. In terms of the former we need critique, as well as ethical norms and values to validate those critiques.
University of Amsterdam, Thursday 30th June – Friday 1st July 2022 Keynote Speakers: Dr Benjamin Stevens (Trinity University) and Dr Rutger Allan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Organisers: Caterina Fossi MA (University of Amsterdam), Dr Merlijn Breunesse (University of Amsterdam), and Koen Vacano MA (University of Amsterdam)
In July 1972 Ms. magazine released its first independently-published issue, featuring the now famous “Wonder Woman for President” cover. Although first appearing in comics in 1941, Wonder Woman’s focus on compassion and empathy spoke to the publishers and readers of this feminist magazine fighting for women’s rights in the 1970s, and she continues speaking to modern readers today.
Keynote speakers: Georges Didi-Huberman (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität, Berlin) Lev Manovich (City University, New York) Artists talk: Radu Jude & Susana de Sousa Dias Graduate Workshop keynote speakers: Samaneh Moafi & Stefanos Levidis (Forensic Architecture)
Call for Papers – Bournemouth University in collaboration with Wolverhampton University presents: Action Heroines in the Twenty-First Century: Sisters in Arms Thursday June 9th – Friday June 10th 2022 at Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University Hosted by the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre Keynotes: Professor Yvonne Tasker, Leeds University, and Professor Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee, Knoxville It is 30 years since
Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. The first Console-ing Passions conference was held at the University of Iowa in 1992.
A conference hosted by Journalism@Newcastle and Ethical Space, the International Journal of Communication Ethics. 23 June 2022 – Deadline for abstracts 29 October 2021 True crime has a long and popular history in journalism, literature, drama, radio, film and television – and now the podcast.
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.
