Queries about this call for papers should be directed to Rebecca Williams (rebeca.williams@southwales.ac.uk) or Christine Geraghty (christine.geraghty@glasgow.ac.uk) In February 2025, the soap opera EastEnders will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Launching in 1985, the BBC series has long been a staple on British television and remains one of the BBC’s flagship productions.

Abstracts due 22 Sept 2023 Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies Guest editors: Dr Maura Edmond, Dr Olivia Khoo, Dr Claire Perkins and Dr Verity Trott, from @Gender&MediaLab in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.

Organized in partnership with: University of Brighton / The Glasgow School of Art / The OA Zine / Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne This international online conference will focus on both seasons of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s acclaimed television series The OA that went missing 4 years ago.

“Another world is not only possible; she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy

Conference website: https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-conference/ The conference will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range of experiences and identities.

Hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London Paper, panel, and roundtable proposals are now invited for the 2024 ‘Media Industries’ conference (‘MI2024’). After the success in 2018 of the inaugural conference ‘Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions’, unfortunately the planned 2020 conference had to be cancelled due to Covid lockdowns.

Organiser: British Sociological Association, Media Study Group CfP PDF: https://tinyurl.com/2k6nu4qt We are living in unusual times. As such, recent and ongoing events — including the pandemic, the energy/ cost of living crisis, the war in Ukraine — provide an opportunity to look again at our ideas about the role and operation of media at times of sustained crises and conflicts.

Guest editors: Giulia Taurino (Northeastern University), Georgia Aitaki (Karlstad University) Given recent technological advancements, media scholars have been discussing a digital, computational, algorithmic turn in television (Berry, 2011; Hansen & Paul, 2017;

Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Keynote Speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz Date: September 23-24 The University of Pittsburgh Film and Media Studies Program is pleased to announce “Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media,” its twelfth

Editor(s): Valerio Coladonato (Sapienza University of Rome) Dom Holdaway (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) Elena Pilipets (University of Siegen) Lidia Valera-Ordaz (University of Valencia) In the last couple of decades, the European political landscape has been shaped by the reinvigorated centrality of populisms.