Archiving Dissent: Post-2011 Arab Imagery, Memory and Vernacular Representations of Conflict The American University of Beirut, Lebanon September 6 & 7, 2019 Organisers: Prof Kari Anden-Papadopoulos (Stockholm University) and Dr Dima Saber (Birmingham City University) in collaboration with Dr May Farah (The American University of Beirut)

Romanticism again and again! In autumn 1979, Michael Ende’s novel The Neverending Story was published in the Federal Republic of Germany. Even to Ende’s contemporaries, Bastian’s journey to Fantastica and back seemed to be the beginning of a revitalization of romantic longings and ideas within popular culture. Almost at the same time, US-American cinema discovers the genre of fantasy film.

“The Bat-Man, a mysterious and adventurous figure, fighting for righteousness and apprehending the wrong doer, in his lone battle against the evil forces of society… his identity remains unknown.” – Detective Comics #27 (1939)

Keynote: Amanda Ann Klein, East Carolina University In holding this year’s conference in downtown Portland, one of the most environmentally conscious cities in the United States, we invite attendees to consider the themes of “repurpose” and “recycle,” broadly conceived. What function—socially, politically, and economically—do sequels, remakes, and reboots serve in media culture?

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.

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.

Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School Television drama, law and national identity Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers: Friday 6 September 2019, University of Westminster Television drama plays a seminal role in the cultural life of nations, and the way in which it depicts national identities merits scholarly exploration.

Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship Leeds Central Library 20-21 September Call for Papers Deadline extended to the 23rd of July 2018. Comics Forum 2018 is the tenth anniversary of the annual conference series.

A symposium at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts University of Sussex 4th and 5th September 2018 The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the context of large-scale violence and death has a long history.

Keynotes: Dr Lisa Glebatis Perks, Merrimack College Dr Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University Binge-watching is a term that, by now, encompasses a number of shifts in contemporary television culture, from changing modes of viewing, to variations in the way television on streaming platforms organises itself, to developments of narrative structures in ‘bingeable’ series.