Nightmare ‘24 @ The Northern School of Art: 25th April 2024 Submission Deadline: Friday 16th February 2024 CFP: “Dreams or nightmares? Madness or Sanity? I don’t know which is which” – The Representation of Mental Health in the Horror Genre The organisers invite proposals for 15-minute papers to be presented at the first Nightmare conference.

Edited by Cortland Rankin (Bowling Green State University) and Brady Fletcher (University of Rochester) The portmanteau “warscape” that forms the title of this edited volume suggests a complex linkage between war, often thought of in purely anthropocentric terms, and the physical environment. On one hand, warfare is inescapably shaped by the environmental contexts in which it occurs.

Montpellier, October 4, 2024 One-day symposium organized by Amandine D’Azevedo and David Roche Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Institut Universitaire de France   This one-day symposium will focus on fight choreographies in films and television series.

Extended and revised call for chapters on select FX Channel original TV series are sought for an edited book collection.  In a similar vein as The Essential HBO Reader (2008) , this scholarly collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.

Television and Sustainability In 2015, the UN proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are meant to guide humankind towards a more equitable future on a liveable planet. They address questions of health, society, culture and the distribution of resources while also being aware of the urgency to address climate change.

Chapter proposals for edited collection #TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences Proposals due by Thursday 1st February 2024. The hashtag #truecrime currently has 50.7 billion views on TikTok and 1.3 million posts on Instagram. Reddit’s ‘True Crime Forum’ boasts over 2.6 million ‘detectives’, and the most-watched true crime videos on YouTube achieve in the region of 30 million views.

This two-day conference aims to re-evaluate the gothic proliferation, duplication, and industrial (over-)reliance on sequelisation that emerged from the 1980s studio system. This conference seeks to open and build upon significant discussions on sequels stemming from existing scholarship (Klein and Palmer, eds.

Terminator @40: Origins and Legacies  An academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, Wales  18 & 19 June 2024  The Terminator franchise has left an indelible mark on popular culture.

The Disney, Culture and Society Research Network is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for the Second Annual Disney, Culture & Society Research Network Conference: Disney in a Time of Global Transformation.

The Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce a TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This fully-funded studentship will focus on British television drama and the ‘television film’ in the 1980s and 1990s and will involve a collaboration with BBC History.