Over the past few decades we have seen a sharp rise in the number of central female characters in TV series, offering a wide palette of complex female identities, characters following very diverse narrative journeys.

Guest editors: Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk) and Timothy S. Miller (millert@fau.edu) Abstracts of 500 words due by July 1, with indicative bibliography Notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 15, with complete drafts of 6000 words due by November 1 We invite essay submissions for an upcoming special issue of the journal Science Fiction Film and Television

Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Steven Moffat Edited by William Rabkin This edited volume on the works of Steven Moffat will be the second book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Ever since the publication of American sociologist Louis Wirth’s 1945 article “The Problem with Minority Groups,” the term “minority” has referred to groups of individuals who receive unequal treatment and are subjected to discrimination because of physical or cultural characteristics[1]. The definition of “minority” has, particularly since the advent of intersectional scholarship[2], evolved to take into consideration the variety of ways in

Call for papers website : https://sites.google.com/view/replayingcommunism/symposium/call-for-papers In 1988, on 15 March, a day synonymous with national independence and democracy, over 10,000 Hungarians chanted Sándor Petőfi’s infamous poetic cry – ‘no more shall we be slaves’ – as they formed the largest anti-Government demonstration since the 1956 Revolution.

CFP: The War Face on Screen, a one-day symposium, Thursday 6th July 2023, University of Leeds  Deadline: Tuesday 2 May 2023 The central research question for this symposium is: how have images of the face been used on screen to document the phenomenon of war?

Keynote Speakers Concepción Cascajosa Virino (UC3M) Paul Julian Smith (CUNY) Streaming Wars: The New Hispanic TV Series is an international virtual workshop centered on the increasing significance and prominence of Spanish-language streaming content. Digital platforms are important agents in transmitting values and sociocultural changes, and TV series are one of their key vehicles.

Dates: 9-10 November 2023 Place: University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Communication, Denmark.

Organized by Céline Murillo (Université Paris 13), Mehdi Achouche (Université Paris 13), Anne-Marie Paquet Deyris (Université Paris Nanterre), Nicole Cloarec (Université de Rennes) September 6-8, 2023 Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers , Université Paris 13, France Keynote Speakers Joan Hawkins (Indiana

Website: https://blog.hslu.ch/videoessay/2023-conference-open-call/ One of the first academic conferences devoted to videographic research was held at the Frankfurt Filmmuseum and Goethe University in Germany in 2013. Titled “The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory,” the conference emphasized practice in the presentation-based discussions.