film and television

Media, Press Freedom, and Cultural Production in an Authoritarian Age (Submission Deadline Extended, Now July 19, 2026)

CFP: Media, Press Freedom, and Cultural Production in an Authoritarian Age

 Co-sponsored by the Union for Democratic Communications, Project Censored and the Park Center for Independent Media

Oct. 23-24, 2026

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

RISING ASIA JOURNAL is a peer reviewed journal published three times a year in January, May, and September. 

Reviewers are welcome to submit book reviews on any aspect of Asia, covering India's Northeast, Southeast Asia, and East Asia (China, Japan, the Koreas, and Taiwan). 

For details on our book reviews and manuscript preparation guidelines, please go to SUBMIT ARTICLES in our website www.rajraf.org 

Send your reviews to Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu and to the Editor Dr. Harish Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.ca

Call for Abstracts/Chapter Proposals

SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jaco Van Dormael

Edited by Albert Lee

Panel on Bill Lawrence for SCMS 2027 Since Spin City, the shows of Bill Lawrence have navigated the complexities of workplaces, friendships, grief and family. This panel intends to explore the Bill Lawrence universe from a diverse range of angles, with the overarching aim of seeing the series as part of a collective body of work. Papers are welcomed on Scrubs, Scrubs: The Revival, Rooster, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Spin City, Cougar Town and Ground Floor.  Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent, with a 100 word bio to c.wilkins@bham.ac.uk by 20th July. 

Childhood is often imagined as a period of innocence, protection, and dependence. However, across many historical and contemporary contexts, children experience various forms of violence, including interpersonal abuse, structural inequality, displacement, war, and environmental harm. Recent scholarship in childhood studies has challenged the tendency to view children solely as vulnerable victims, emphasizing their capacity for agency, resilience, and political engagement. Understanding how cultural narratives represent these experiences is essential for examining broader questions of justice, rights, and social belonging.

Congreso Estética(s) del Horror: Filosofía, Cine y Literatura.

Invitación a envío de propuestas. Congreso presencial

 (English version below)

En los últimos años, el terror ha experimentado una renovada visibilidad cultural. El éxito del cine reciente, la consolidación de una auténtica edad de oro de las series televisivas y la aparición de nuevas voces literarias, impulsadas también por el trabajo de editoriales especializadas, evidencian que el horror ocupa hoy un lugar central en el imaginario colectivo y mantiene una extraordinaria capacidad para dialogar con las preocupaciones estéticas, sociales y políticas de cada época.

The 98th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 5, through Saturday, November, 7, 2026, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.

Call for Papers Extended: Edited Volume on Adoption in Popular Media

deadline for submissions: 

July 31, 2026

full name / name of organization: 

Stacy Fowler / St. Mary’s University

contact email: 

sfowler@stmarytx.edu

[Panel, Virtual]

Intimately Disconnected
4-5 December 2026 (Friday and Saturday)
The University of Sydney

Between Screens: Video Games, Film, Television and Transmedia Exchange

Edited by Dr Michael Samuel and Dr Richard Cole

Adaptation is a dialogic process, a creative exchange across content production and context rather than an attempt at fidelity. Recent trends in adaptation studies reflect this complexity. Videogames exist within a vast ecosystem of transmedia storytelling and experiences, yet scholarship on adaptation and video games remains limited.

Hosting Identity: Boundaries, Bodies, and Belonging in Popular Culture
Who—or what—do we let in?

This panel invites papers that examine how identity in popular culture is shaped through the logics of hospitality: encounters structured by thresholds, boundaries, and negotiations of belonging. From the body to the home to the platform, popular media repeatedly stages identity as something that must be received, managed, or refused.

Call for Chapters

Horror has long been described as a genre about the unknown — the thing lurking just beyond the edges of civilization. But as Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet Nation) has written, horror uniquely allows "two timelines — the past and the present, the legacy of colonialism and the world of the story — to simultaneously exist. Not just exist, but intersect."[1] It is this capacity for temporal and cultural intersection that has made horror and the Gothic not merely accessible to Indigenous writers, but essential.

CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Montrous Area 2026 - UPDATED DEADLINE

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) seeks proposals for inclusion in NEPCA’s 2026 annual conference.

The event will run as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th, through Saturday, October 17th. Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. The registration fee is expected to be around 50 USD.