Broadcasting, Reloaded.

26 ^th Annual SERCIA Conference Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain September 2-4, 2020 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”. Alluring as the phrase may sound to our 21st century ears, when uttered by Diogenes, it was an invitation to be a social outsider: the allegiance to humanity as a whole implied

REMINDER – DEADLINE 1ST DECEMBER 2019   CALL FOR PAPERS KEANU REEVES Special Edition of Celebrity Studies Journal, edited by Renee Middlemost and Sarah Thomas Since his emergence as a teen actor in the 1980s, Keanu Reeves has been an enduring, yet elusive celebrity who continues to fascinate and frustrate in equal measure.

Conference website: https://gothflixconference.wordpress.com This conference was born following a discussion between Luke (Lancaster University) and Jess (University of Liverpool) the night before Sheffield’s Reimagining the Gothic 2019 conference where they were together presenting on a group panel on The Good Place (2016) – a tentative plan for another group panel the next year quickly evolved into something

Join the Wayne State University Pop Culture Consortium for #WaynePop2020, our 6th annual Conference on Popular Culture! From Roots to All the President’s Men, Maus to Holocaust , our understanding of moments in history are often shaped by the media we consume.

“… 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.

Call for Abstracts: Food and Cooking on Early European Television Food has been part of television from its beginnings.

CFP:  (UPDATE) Children, Youth, and International Television Calls for submissions to a collection that critically examines programs that prominently feature children in international (i.e. non-American) television. Programs may include those targeted to children, or those programs targeted to adults but contain significant child characters.

VIEW Journal Call for Papers on “Canned Television Going Global?”: The Transnational Circulation of Ready-Made Content in Television The issue of audio-visual content international distribution and circulation is one of the most relevant in recent debates in Media and Television Studies: in the “age of plenty” (Ellis: 2000) distribution presents innovative features relating to both the introduction of new digital platforms and the