film and television

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University is thrilled to host the 12th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 4-6, 2027.

The Post45 Graduate Symposium seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 media, arts, literature, textual or visual objects, digital platforms, politics, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of objects and meaning-making post-1945 or place them in comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frames. We especially welcome contributions that foreground the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to post-45 studies. 

Special Issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/B781Q58SAM

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Literature will collect essays addressing the reception, influence, adaptation, or incorporation of literature from the Greco–Roman world into later theatre, film, and television. The Greeks and Romans pioneered a wide range of performed literary styles like tragic and comic drama, or epic and lyric poetry, as well as developing extensive mythic story networks and what we now recognize as formal histories, etc. Some of these works remain among the most influential and beloved writings ever produced by humanity.

Architectures of Deceit provides a timely analysis of how and why imposture has emerged as a shared media logic across cinema, television, streaming platforms, and networked culture.

The volume offers a new critical lens for examining how contemporary screen culture negotiates identity, class mobility, institutional legitimacy, technological change, and the erosion of social and public trust. It traces a trajectory from fictional impostors and narratives of real-world fraud to deceptive media infrastructures and machine-generated images.

 The volume is organized into four parts:

Part I — Constructing a Legible Self: Class, Identity, and Recognition

Narrative is among the most enduring and adaptive structures of human meaning-making. Across millennia, it has evolved from oral performance and manuscript cultures to print, cinema, broadcast television, digital platforms, and now algorithmically curated streaming environments and AI-assisted compositions.

Editors Introduction:

While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) cemented the formula with a higher body count and an increased focus on sex, violence, and gore. Alongside Black Christmas, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween, the Friday the 13th series helped establish many of the conventions that fans are now accustomed to, and its first sequel introduced an iconic killer with Jason Voorhees. The success of the original film led to a franchise comprised of twelve theatrical films as of 2026, in addition to a short film released in 2025 and a 2026 television series.

Call for Chapters

Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture

(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)

Call for Chapters

Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture

(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)

Travelling Cultural Heritage

Circulation and Digital Afterlives

Call for PapersCultural Heritage Lab International Conference4th edition

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

December 10-11, 2026

CFP for Futures of Memory Conference 2027

Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era

We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.

Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the Dutch Centre for Unusual Collaborations.

Date & Venue

Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers

Come join a vivid and diverse community of scholars and professionals to discuss the history and depiction of the sea through a popular culture perspective!

We are considering proposals for individual papers, panels, creative sessions, and roundtables. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per session. Scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals are all encouraged to submit. Proposals may include (but are not restricted to):

Three decades on, the founding categories of trauma theory: belatedness, aporia, the unspeakable, the event that cannot be claimed, remain largely those of a single archive: European, modernist, post-Holocaust. Stef Craps’s decolonising critique (2010; 2013; 2014) has exposed the field’s marginalisation of non-Western suffering, its universalisation of a Euro-American psycho-diagnostic invention, its prescription of fragmentary modernist techniques as its defining form, and its neglect of the connections between metropolitan and other histories of violence. Yet that critique has been prosecuted largely through postcolonial and Anglophone Global South materials.

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its 2027–2028 research fellowship program. Up to 50 fellowships will be awarded to support projects that require substantial on-site use of the center’s internationally renowned collections in the humanities.

Fellowships are open to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any career stage, and independent researchers — including journalists and artists — whose work engages deeply with archival materials. Residency lengths range from one week to two months, with stipends provided to support travel and research. 

Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee

in collaboration with

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2026-2027