film and television

International Conference “Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality”Call for Papers FCSH-Universidade Nova de LisboaLisbon, Portugal 6-8 March 2020 Organised by CETAPS and CHAM  The most pellucid pearls of historical narrative are often fount in fiction, long a major component of historical understanding. More people apprehend the past through historical novels, from Walter Scott to Jean Plaidy, than through any formal history.David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country (1985) 224 Historical fiction has been riding a crest of popularity, and, to a certain degree, it was that popularity that motivated (or forced) the academic study of the genre.

FINAL Call for Abstracts (Extended Deadline)Aigne, 2019/2020 IssueTheme: “Crisis: Predicament and Potential”Deadline May 2nd, 2019 

Medievalism in America Panelist Needed

Please Respond by 20 April 2019

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture is organizing a panel on American medievalisms for a session at the June meeting of the New England American Studies Association at Fitchburg State University (Fitchburg, MA) on Saturday, June 8.

We are in need of a third presenter. Please contact us ASAP at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com.

Michael Torregrossa

Founder, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Backward Glances 2019: REBOOT

The Screen Cultures Graduate Student Conference

Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University

September 27 & 28, 2019

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2019

Wyndham San Diego Bayside 

Thursday, November 14 to Sunday, November 17.

https://pamla.org/2019

The City in Literature & Culture special session of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is now accepting proposals for the organization’s 117th annual conference. The call-for-papers deadline is Monday, June 10, 2019.