As the noted political geographer and urban theorist Edward Soja has suggested, under current socio-political conditions, “relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life… human geographies become filled with politics and ideology.” Within an epoch structured around the machinations of transnational global capital, authoritarian state (and supra-state) governance, the birth of an obfuscated

2018 marks the 16th anniversary of the annual Journeys Across Media (JAM) conference for postgraduate researchers, organised by the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading. This year, JAM will take place on 15 June 2018, at the University of Reading.

Abstracts and submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives welcome.

‘Islamophobia’ and ‘race’ are contested terms in contemporary political and media discourse around the world(Hajjat & Mohammed, 2013; Massoumi et al., 2017; Sayyid & Vakil, 2009). In the case of heated debates in France, for example, academic and/or antiracist arguments – themselves far from homogenous – struggle to be heard, and these terms are often censored more or less explicitly.

The University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University are happy to present The NECS 2018 Conference Media Tactics and Engagement 27-29 June 2018 Hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam Pre-Conference Media in Transition 26 June 2018 Hosted by Utrecht

We are very pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for the forthcoming event ‘ 25 Years of Jurassic Park (1993): An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Paleontological Imagination ’ will be Dr Steve Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh. Dr Brusatte is a paleontologist who is also passionate about education and communicating science to the public.

Screen Interventions VCA Film and Television, University of Melbourne, 27 – 29 June 2018 The Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) 2018 annual Conference will be held at the VCA, University of Melbourne, Australia, between 27 and 29 June 2018. This year’s conference theme is Screen Interventions.

This symposium seeks to explore the relationships between truth, lies and media consumption throughout history and across media and cultural platforms. Fake news is not new.

This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media.  The advent of digital media has underlined the importance of visual culture and our curiosity in representations of the body to form opinions about ourselves and others.

Theorising the Popular Conference 2017 Liverpool Hope University, June 21 ^st -22 ^nd 2017 The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its seventh annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2017 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their