film and television

Call for Papers:  

Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media 
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 

Keynote Speakers: 
Seth Kim, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Colby College 
Pedro Inock, Filmmaker and PhD candidate, NOVA University of Lisbon 

Shakespeare exists across and between multiple worlds today. After centuries of circulation in Asia, Shakespeare inhabits all locales and cultural formations in ever-changing forms, but is contained by none. Neither completely virtual nor concretely embodied, long dead yet very much alive, inhabiting past, present and future in equal measure, Shakespeare continues to thrive in the act of playing, teaching and thinking. Recent Asian Shakespeare scholarship has critically reflected upon, yet ultimately celebrated such cross-cultural, international, world-wide flourishing, bringing together new arrangements, forms and collaborations of Shakespeare’s work across art, performance and cultures.

Call for Articles - The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power

IDEA – Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis launches its new issue on the topic The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power.

Emotions shape the way individuals and communities navigate their personal and collective lives, influencing decisions, relationships and the structures that govern societies. They are deeply embedded in social, cultural and political contexts, acting as both a personal experience and a force that drives public action.

International Conference 

Women Filmmakers and New Feminist Cinemas in France, Great Britain, and the USA in the 21st Century 

21-22-23 October 2026, Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France 

CRS Graduate Student Conference 2026

April 3rd - 4th, 2026

Sprockets/Selvage/Shores

Projecting Belief: Cinema and the Re-enchanted World

King’s College London – May 21-23 2026

Conference Organizers – Rachata Sasnanand and Benjamin Y Goff

Call for Papers:

Representation matters – but to whom? And how?

This iteration of the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference considers the ongoing significance of representational analysis as well as the critical possibilities enabled by the turn to resonance in Black media and cultural studies. Our theme, Representation and Resonance, invites original research into images and storytelling, circulation and flows, and reception practices.

While we especially invite papers on this topic, we are open to any and all critical inquiry into Black media culture, broadly defined. Our hope is to bring together any and all scholars interested and invested in Black media culture, regardless of discipline or method.

Through their intricately textured scenes and characters, the ten plays of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle chart the epic historical contours and idiomatic genius of Black American life across the entire twentieth century. Despite his plans for continued literary production after the Cycle’s completion, Wilson died shortly after the final play (Radio Golf)’s world premiere in 2005. 

Two decades hence, and now in the second quarter of the twenty-first century, Wilson’s presence and prescience in American culture are not only enduring but expanding:

Seminar title: Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming

Seminar link: https://www.acla.org/seminar/c997c5c5-09fd-4307-ba24-29af11d554d6 

Organizers: Clarke Crockett and Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University, USA

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Convention 2026, Montreal, Canada

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 2, 2025. Must be submitted through the ACLA portal. 

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture 

Call for Papers

The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 national conference to be held April 8-11, 2026, in Atlanta, GA at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis!

Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students. 

Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media

CFP for Volume 5, Issue 1 (2026) Theme: Ciphers and Codes

Call For Papers Nº 26 (Summer 2026)
"Touch Screen. Imaginaries of Hapticity in Audiovisual Media"

Popular Culture Association

 Atlanta  April 8-11, 2026

Subject Area:

Disasters and Apocalyptic Culture

Submission Deadline: 11/30/25

Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area:

CFP: Media Futures The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 98 (to be published Fall 2026) Special Issue Theme: Media have always been a tool for us to imagine our possible futures. Dystopias, utopias, robotic dominance or human climate catastrophe, media help humanity play out the hopes, dreams, or nightmares of what’s to come. Scholarship on media futures has often focused on representations of the future, but also on how cultural and technological changes have shaped and are shaping everything from media production, creative labor, distribution, and audience reception. Algorithmic engines that shape taste help to determine what individuals choose to watch, A.I.