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CFP: Cosmopolitanism, Media and Global Crisis, 4 June 2011, Kingston University

deadline: 16 January 2010 Keynote Speakers: Professor Lilie Chouliaraki & Professor Paddy Scannell In the last three decades the field of media studies has witnessed an exponential growth of...

CFP: Questioning Transnationalism: Culture, Politics and Media, 17 December 2010, Royal Hollway, University of London

deadline: 15 September 2010 Royal Holloway College, University of London The Departments of Media Arts and Politics and International Relations (PIR) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Thomas Diez...

CFP: Symposium: Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television, 29 October 2010, Queen Margaret University, Endinburgh

deadline: 24 September 2010 Organisers: Text, Genre and Visual Studies Group, Media and Performing Arts, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Date: 29 October 2010. Venue: Queen Margaret...

CFP: The Lincoln School of Humanities and Performing Arts in association with Lincoln Comedy Festival presents a one day comedy Symposium: 9th October 2010

The deadline for Calls for Papers is extended to 31st August 2010. The school is also pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for this event will be: ALISTAIR BEATON Arguably Britain's...

CFP: Panel on 'Animals, Environment and Media' - MeCCSA conference 2011

This panel seeks to critically explore the relationship between animals, environment and media. Papers may deal with any aspect of mediated communication, and could address one or more of the...

CFP: MeCCSA Conference 12-14 January 2011, The Lowry, Salford

deadline: 22 September 2010 MeCCSA 2011 Conference 12-14 January 2011 The Lowry, Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association...

CFP: Romcom Actually: A Two Day International Conference on Romantic Comedy in Film and Television, 2-3 March 2011, De Montfort University, Leicester

Deadline: 1 December 2010 Hosted jointly by the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University and the School of Film and Television Studies, University of East...

CFP: ‘Circulations and Interdisciplinarity: Limits and Problems of TV Studies Methodologies’

Deadline: 15 September 2010 S.E.R.I.E.S. (Scholars Exchanging and Researching on International Entertainment Series- International Network) CFP: 'Circulations and Interdisciplinarity: Limits and...

TV Series in the World: Changing Places / Places of Exchange – An International Conference, 15-17June 2011 at the University of Le Havre (France)

This interdisciplinary conference aims at examining the TV series of/in different countries (USA, UK, France, Spain, Hispanic America, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Canada, Oceania, Africa...

CFP: Vegetarians, VILFs and Fang-Bangers: Modern Vampire Romance in print and on screen A one-day conference, 24 November 2010, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2010 Vampires have had a long and complex relationship with human beings and have been threatening and attracting us through folklore, literature, film and...

CFP: The Big Screen vs. The Small Screen, One day conference 16 February 2011, Canterbury Christ Church University

A one-day conference exploring the competing cultures and contexts of cinema and television in a changing media environment Canterbury Christ Church University (Department of Media), UK...

CFP: Currents in the Mainstream - Where are we going? MeCCSA Disability Studies Network, 22 September 2010, De Montfort University

deadline: 12 July 2010 Disability images of the 1980s and 1990s have received significant critical attention, but there has been little work to date on its development in the 2000s, especially...

CFP: “Celebrity news”, an oxymoron?, 16-17 September 2010, Geneva University

deadline: 25 June 2010 GENEVA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY SWITZERLAND THURSDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER AND FRIDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2010 Richard Dyer defined a star as "any person known for his/her...

CFP: Death and the Media, 15 November 2010, BSA London Meeting Room

Joint event organized by the BSA Media Study Group and BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement (DDB) Study Group CALL FOR PAPERS Monday 15th November 2010, 10.30am – 4.30pm BSA...

CFP Documentary and Intimacy, A one-day symposium, 16 September 2010, University of Surrey

Documentary and Intimacy A one-day symposium hosted by the Film Studies programme at the University of Surrey. Thursday 16th September Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers that engage...

FINAL CFP: International Conference“Rewriting, Remixing, and Reloading: Adaptations across the Globe”Centre for British Studies, Berlin, 30 September to 1 October, 2010

Final Call for Papers Apologies for x-postings International Conference "Rewriting, Remixing, and Reloading: Adaptations across the Globe" Centre for British Studies, Berlin, 30 September to 1...

Perception, Reception and Deception: The role of the media in society, 19-21 April 2011, Trinity College Dublin

deadline: 30 September 2010 The 4th biennial Media History conference will focus on the ways in which people have understood the social, cultural and political roles of the media over the past...

CFP: SCREENS OF TERROR: representations of war and terrorism since 9/11 in film, TV drama & documentary, 9-11 September 2010, Centre for Media & Culture Research, London South Bank University

Deadline for abstracts (200 words): 11 June 2010. Submit proposals to Phil.Hammond@lsbu.ac.uk CONFERENCE WEBSITE CALL FOR PAPERS: Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, the US government...

CFP: Setting the Agenda for Eurovision Studies (Oslo - May 2010)

EUROVISION RESEARCH NETWORK The Eurovision Research Network (ERN), founded in 2009, is an association of academics, broadcasters, journalists, and other individuals and organisations with an...

CFP: International Conference, "Rewriting, Remixing, and Reloading: Adaptations across the Globe", 30 Sept - 1 Oct 2010, Centre for British Studies, Berlin

deadline: 1 June 2010 Call for Papers and Panels Convenors: Pascal Nicklas (Humboldt University Berlin), Gesa Stedman (GBZ Berlin), Eckart Voigts-Virchow (Siegen University) The Centre for...

Registration is now open for the 20th International Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2-4 July 2010

"Screen performance" will be the subject of the plenaries and will form a strand running throughout the Conference. Confirmed plenary speakers are: Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee...

CFP: Memory, Identity, and New Fantasy Cultures in Film and Television, 9 October 2010, Kingston University

REVISED Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2010 Memory, Identity, and New Fantasy Cultures in Film and Television One day conference, Kingston University, October 9th, London Proposals are...

CFP: What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times: researching the relationship between women, feminism, the feminine and British television, 16 Spetember 2010, University of Sunderland

deadline: 19 April 2010 Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times: researching the...

CFP: Popular Culture and World Politics III, 4-5 November 2010, York University, Toronto

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and York University Call for Papers / Performances: Popular Culture and World Politics III 4-5 November 2010 York University Toronto,...

CFP: Visual Media Production Panel at International Visual Sociology Association annual conference in Bologna

Panel 26: From the darkroom to the kitchen table: practices and places of visual media production Chairs: Eric Laurier, Barry Brown and Neil Jenkings At their outset darkrooms and cutting rooms...

CFP Panel on Animated Documentary, 9-12 August 2010, Istanbul

deadline: 12 March 2010 Please see below for a cfp for a panel I am chairing on animated documentary at this year's Visible Evidence conference (9th - 12th August in Istanbul). Please submit a...

CFP: Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Media and Imagination, 2 July 2010, Lincoln School of Media

deadline: 26 April 2010 Journal of Media Practice Symposium Friday 2nd July 2010 Lincoln School of Media Brayford Campus Lincoln University, UK Call for presentations: " Media and Imagination...

CFP: Africa Media and Democracy Conference, 18 -20 August 2010, Accra – Ghana

THE ACCRA CONFERENCE 18th -20th AUGUST 2010: The Africa Media & Democracy Conference invites papers for its annual Africa Media and Democracy Conference, to be held from 18th -20th August 2010,...

CFP: Media Education Summit 2010

deadline: 31 May 2010 We are pleased to invite you to attend the Media Education Summit 2010 and to call for proposals for papers. The summit builds on previous successful meetings, which...

CFP: Global Media and the ‘War on Terror’: an international conference, 13-14 September 2010, University of Westminster

deadline: 26 March 2010 Organized by Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London, in collaboration with the Department of Media and Communications,...

CFP: The Biographical Narrative in 21st Century Film and Television

deadline: 31 March 2010 POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES THURSDAY 27TH MAY & THURSDAY 3RD JUNE 2010 This seminar series welcomes proposals for papers from postgraduate students that consider the...

CFP: Acting with Facts: Perforing the Real on Stage and Screen 1990 - 2010, 1-3 September 2010, University of Reading

deadline: 30 April 2010 The University of Reading Department of Film, Theatre & Television is pleased to announce an international conference on factual drama, linked to the Arts and...

CFP: What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times, 16 September 2010, University of Sunderland

deadline: 19 April 2010 Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times: researching the...

CFP: DOING GLOBAL MEDIA STUDIES: COMPARATIVE METHODS OF TRANSCULTURAL AND TRANSNATIONAL RESEARCH,11-12 October 2010, Bremen, Germany

deadline: 28 February 2010. Pre-conference to the ECREA 2010 -- 3rd European Communication Conference Bremen, Germany, 11-12 October 2010, Haus der Wissenschaft Held by: NIIK, Network...

CFP: Monty Python in Its British and International Cultural Contexts, 28 - 29 October 2010, Lodz, Poland

The Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Lodz is happy to announce that an academic conference in cultural studies Monty Python in Its British and International Cultural...

CFP:International workshop "Educational challenge: innovation in creative industries", 26-27 March 2010, Tallinn, Estonia.

deadline: 16 February 2010 Tallinn, Estonia, March 26-27, 2010 Workshop website: http://www.bfm.ee/web/?lang=en&page_id=457 Jointly organised by Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School...

Investigating Torchwood: Text, Context, Audiences, One day conference at the ATRiuM, CCI, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, 18 June 2010

REVISED deadline: 19 April 2010 Proposals are sought for a forthcoming symposium to be held at the University of Glamorgan on the BBC Wales programme Torchwood (2006- ).Whilst academic work has...

TELEVISION STUDIES SECTION - ECC 2010, 3rd European Communication Conference, *Transcultural Communication -- Intercultural Comparisons*, 12-15 October 2010, Hamburg, Germany

deadline: 28 February 2010 *ECREA 2010* The Television Studies Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) is inviting the submission of papers, panels or...

CFP: Lost: The Conference, 12-15 January 2011

deadline: 1 June 2010 The co-conveners of LOST: The Conference, an international scholarly/critical gathering on LOST, convened by David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University) and Lynnette...

CFP: China’s Soft Power, 8-9 April 2010, University of Westminster

A Conference organised by the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster 309 Regent Street, London W1 UK April 8th and 9th 2010 The dramatic economic growth in China has meant a renewed...

CFP: Media Convergence and Linguistic Diversity: How can the creative industries contribute to language vitality in a multiplatform environment?, 18-19 May 2010, Aberystwyth University, Wales

deadline: 15 January 2010 International Conference hosted at Aberystwyth University by the Mercator Network and supported by the European Commission The aim of this Conference is to analyse the...

CFP: CYFRWNG 2010 CONFERENCE, 6 - 7 May 2010, Trinity University College, Carmarthen

"VOICES" The annual Cyfrwng conference is an opportunity for academics, students and media practitioners to deliberate key issues relating to the media in Wales. Cyfrwng 2010 is hosted by Trinity...

CFP: JAM 2010 THE AUDIENCE SPECTACULAR: Who’s watching and how? Ideas of audience inscreen media and performance, 16 April 2010, University of Reading

Rapidly emerging technologies and the effects of globalization continue to shape the work of those practitioners concerned with re-positioning the viewer, and impact strongly on developing...

CFP: Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section ECREA 2010 - 3rd European Communication Conference - *Transcultural Communication -- Intercultural Comparisons*, 12-15 October 2010, Hamburg, Germany

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 February 2010 The 'Diaspora, Migration and the Media' section invites all academics and non-academics who work with issues within the broad theme of ECREA's 3rd...

CFP: RIPE@2010 Conference, 8-11 September 2010, University of Westminster

September 8-11, 2010 in London 2nd CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA AFTER THE RECESSION ========================================= The deadline for submitting a proposal for the...

CFP: ECREA 2010 - erd European Communication Conference, 12-15 October 2010, Hamburg, Germany

deadline: 28 February 2010 COMUNICATION LAW AND POLICY SECTION *ECREA 2010 -- 3rd European Communication Conference* *Transcultural Communication -- Intercultural Comparisons* Hamburg,...

CFP: "Environmental Change - Cultural Change", 1-4 September 2010, University of Bath

deadline: 1 February 2010 Contributions are invited for an international conference on "Environmental Change - Cultural Change". The event is organised on behalf of ASLE-UK and EASLCE, the British...

CFP: Radical British Screens Symposium, 3 September 2009, UWE.

deadline: 1 March 2010 This one-day symposium, hosted by the Film Studies Research Group, UWE, and the Screen Studies South West Network, invites papers on the theme of radical British TV and...

CFP: Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present, 2 day conference, 4-5 March 2010, De Montfort University

deadline: 15 January 2010 Proposals are invited for papers at Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present, a major two-day conference on British screen horror at De Montfort University and Phoenix...

CFP: DOING GLOBAL MEDIA STUDIES: COMPARATIVE METHODS OF TRANSCULTURAL AND TRANSNATIONAL RESEARCH, 11-12 October 2010, Bremen, Germany

deadline: 28 February 2010 Pre-conference to the ECREA 2010 – 3rd European Communication Conference Bremen, Germany, 11-12 October 2010, Haus der Wissenschaft Held by: NIIK, Network...

CFp: ‘YOUTH, NEW MEDIA & SOCIAL CHANGE’, 8 May 2010, University of Northampton

deadline: 30 November 2009 Media Annual Conference: Organised by the School of Social Sciences, Park Campus, University of Northampton, UK Date: Saturday 8th May 2010 Venue: LT-C101, University of...

CFP: Fourth International Comedy Conference, 'So Funny it Hurts', 3-4 June 2010, Uni of Salford and MMU

deadline: 2 February 2010 The Fourth International Comedy Conference University of Salford with Manchester Metropolitan University SO FUNNY IT HURTS 3rd & 4th June 2010 Call For Papers As...

CFP: International Communication Association, Singapore 2010, Preconference on the ‘Chindia’ challenge to global communication, 22 June 2010, University of Westminster

deadline: 7 December 2009 Conceived and organized by: Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication and Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster, London...

CFP: ECREA 2010 -- 3rd European Communication Conference: *Transcultural Communication -- Intercultural Comparisons*, 12-15 October 2010, Hamburg, Germany

deadline: 28 February 2010 Hamburg, Germany, 12-15 October 2010 The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the Hans Bredow Institute, together with the...

CFP: Media Production, 18-22 July 2010, Braga, Portugal

deadline: 31 January 2010 'Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change' The Working Group for Media Production Analyses of the International Association for Media and...

CFP: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SC3), 3-6 June 2010, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL

deadline: 1 December 2009 Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (www.slayageonline.com) and the Whedon Studies Association solicit your proposal for the fourth Slayage...

CFP: Empirical Studies of Literature and Media, 7-11 July 2010, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

deadline: 1 Feburary 2010 ABOUT IGEL The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (Internationale Gesellschaft fr Empirische Literaturwissenschaft und Medien, IGEL)...

CFP: Justice, Media and Public: Changing Public Perceptions in the New Media Landscape, 25-26 March 2010, Keele University

Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice Keele University, 25-26 March 2010 Conference website ************************************************************************ Confirmed...

CFP: Documentary Now! A Conference on the Contemporary Contexts and Possibilities of the Documentary, 15/16 January 2010, Birkbeck College

deadline: 6 November 2009 Documentary Now! is back. Now an annual fixture on the UK documentary scene, the conference brings together scholars, filmmakers, students, and interested members of the...

CFP: Broadcasting in the 1930s: new media in a time of crisis, A Symposium

deadline: 1 March 2010 Part of the conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wisconsin Centre for Theatre and Film Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison July 6th – 9th, 2010...

CFP: On, Archives! Celebrating 50 Years of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research – a conference on media, theater and history, 6-9 July 2010, Madison, Wisconsin

In 2010 the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research celebrates its 50th anniversary. Formed in 1960 as a joint project of what was then the Department of Speech at the University of...

CFP: Researching (Popular) Media in the Age of Convergence: Methodological innovations in the study of media industries, texts, technologies and audiences

deadline: 5 November 2009 ICA Preconference by the Popular Communication Division 22nd June 2010, Singapore The processes of digitization and deregulation have transformed the production,...

CFP: NECS 2010 Conference: 'Urban Mediations', 24-27 June 2010, Istanbul

deadline: 31 January 2010 The following call is for the fourth annual conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. URBAN MEDIATIONS Istanbul, Turkey, June 24-27, 2010 In...

CFP: 2010 MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference, 30 June - 1 July 2010, University of Glasgow

deadline: 15 March 2010 Hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies The MeCCSA Postgraduate Network invites submission of abstracts for its 2010 Annual Postgraduate Conference,...

CFP: Public Service Media after the Recession, RIPE@2010 Conference, 8-11 September 2010, University of Westminster

September 8-11, 2010 in London CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA AFTER THE RECESSION ========================================= We are pleased to announce the fifth bi-annual RIPE...

CFP: The 22nd Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference, 9-11 July 2010, 'Animation Evolution', Edinburgh College of Art

deadline for individual and panel submissions: 8 January 2010 The Society for Animation Studies invites submissions for proposals for individual papers and panels for its 22nd Annual conference...

CFP: Children’s TV in the Arab World, 4 June 2010, University of Westminster

deadline: 7 December 2009 5th Annual International Conference of the Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster Date: Friday 4 June, 2010...

CFP: 20th International Screen Studies Conference, 2-4 July 2010, University of Glasgow

Organised by Screen journal and programmed by Screen editor Karen Lury. Confirmed plenary speakers: - Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee - Andrew Klevan, University of Oxford - Jacob...

CFP: The Eleventh Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, June 10 – 13, 2010 University of Maine

deadline: 15 January 2010 Media Ecology and the Natural Environment. June 10 – 13, 2010 University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Media Ecology and Natural Environments The subject of media ecology...

CFP: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa, CAMRI Africa Media Series: Conference: 25 – 26 March 2010, University of Westminster,

deadline: 15 November 2009 1st Call: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa Conference: 25 – 26 March 2010 Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa are the topics of a 2-day...

CFP - 'Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking CinemaScope’: The Spectacle of Technology in Screen Media, Saturday 27 February 2010, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Deadline: Friday 18 December 2009 This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore ways in which particular screen technologies and media are displayed and spectacularised – that...

CFP: Contemporary Serial Culture: Quality TV Series in a New Media Environment, International Conference, 14 - 16 January 2010, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany

REMINDER deadline: 15 November 2009 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Toby Miller (University of California, Riverside) Robin Nelson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Hugh O'Donnell (Glasgow...

CFP: Console-ing Passions: Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism April 22-24, 2010 University of Oregon — Eugene, Oregon

Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions creates collegial spaces for scholarship and other creative work on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality in...

CFP: MeCCSA 2010 ConferenceWednesday 6th - Friday 8th January 2010

Hello to all. Please note deadline for abstracts is 18 September 2009. MeCCSA is the UK subject association for those teaching and researching in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. The...

The Visual Culture Division of Cultural Studies Association invitessubmissions for the 8th annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association(US) to be held at the University of California, Berkeley, 18-20 March 2010

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): 4 September 2009 1. Visual Culture and Privacy Privacy is generally understood as being alone, freedom from intrusion, or the right of freedom from public...

CFP: Comedy, Society & Popular Narrative

Please note that the deadline for the ARPF conference of Comedy, Society and Popular Narrative has been extended to 1st September 2009. Annual Conference for the Association for Research in...

Past CFPs

CFP: Projecting the Regions: People, Identity and Place, 17 September 2009 deadline: asap Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University Frontier Technology/Techno-Frontiers: Technology and the...

CFPs Conferences

Cult Adaptations Symposium, 25 November 2009 deadline: 1 September 2009 Venue: De Montfort University Rethinking Complicity and Resistance: The Relationship between Visual Arts and Politics,...