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Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, April 17 – Saturday, April 20, 2019
Audiovisual stories aimed at the female audience have always had a very specific orientation focused at capturing that sector of the audience, but with little vocation to reach the large public especially male. These were created by men, finding few women as creators of mainstream products.
Call for Papers – Looking into the Upside Down: Investigating Stranger Things
One Day Symposium at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Matt Hills, University of Huddersfield
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday 14th December, 2018
“Something Rich and Strange”: Remapping Shakespeare’s Utopia
Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, Delilah Bermudez Brataas
Tischner European University, Krakow, Poland akowalcze@wse.krakow.pl ; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway delilah.brataas@ntnu.no
CFP: ICMS 2019 "Rhetoric of Resistance"
The International Association of Robin Hood Studies is sponsoring a session on “Rhetoric of Resistance” at the 2019 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (ICMS 2019).
CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 8 – new directions in comics studies 2018
Birkbeck, University of London
Saturday 10th November 2018
After a year’s hiatus we are delighted to announce this call for papers for the interdisciplinary Transitions 2018 symposium. Originally convened by PhD students in 2010, Transitions at Birkbeck is a platform for emerging research that is free to attend and participate in.
2019 will be the 80th Anniversary of MGM’s The Wizard of Oz, and SCMS will be meeting in Seattle—the Emerald City!
I would like to propose a panel on The Wizard of Oz. I am open to receiving proposals on the 1939 film, other film adaptations of Oz, or the presence of Oz in American and global culture.
Please email paper proposals, including a title, abstract (200-300 words), and a short bio to Ryan Bunch (ryan@ryanbunch.com) by August 15.
C4: The Conference on Contemporary Celebrity Culture, Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa, USA), June 9-11, 2019.
From a lost silent film to Japanese animation, LMM Montgomery’s Anne Shirley is one of the most enduring fictional characters, finding life on the shelves and screens of each generation since the novel Anne of Green Gables was first published in 1908. The release of Netflix’s new adaptation, released internationally as Anne With An E, prompted a range of responses from generations who had grown up with the books and the iconic Kevin Sullivan/CBC mini-series from the 1980s. This new Anne was darker and edgier, her fragility rawer than before – but was she ‘our Anne-girl’?
1st International Popular Culture Conference
Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), December 12-14, 2018
INTRODUCTION
We welcome your participation in the 1st International Popular Culture Conference (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) which will take place in the School of Communication (Av. Américo Vespucio, s/n. 41092-Sevilla) on December 12, 13 and 14, 2018.