Contemporary film and TV in the UK appear to offer at least three interrelated problems for the lower socio-economic classes. There is imbalance, exploitation, and precarity in the industry; perennial problems around representation; and the inculcation of neoliberal ideology antithetical to social justice and equality.

Evolving global screen environments in the last decade have triggered fundamental changes to the phenomena previously understood as the “transnational,” as content creators articulate new forces that connect and at times separate people and institutions across national and cultural borders.

DWFTH 5 revised for 2021: New call for papers–‘Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now.’ A Hybrid Conference: July 10 – 11, 2021 (virtual and on-campus at Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland) Supported by Women’s Film & Television History Network, this call for papers is made in collaboration with ‘Women and the BBC’, a special themed issue of Critical Studies in Television.

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2020 that will take place at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, from 12-21 July, 2020 (full-day program from 13 to 20 July;

One-Day Symposium: Tuesday July 16th 2019 The Centre for Media Research, Bath Spa University Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Simon O’Sullivan , Professor of art, theory and practice, Goldsmiths College, London Dr Tony David-Sampson , Reader in Digital Media Culture and Communication, University of East London The Centre for Media Research at Bath Spa University

Call for Papers: “London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies”, 18-20 July 2019 Location Notre Dame London Global Gateway 1-4 Suffolk Street London SW1Y 4HG As the inaugural event for SCMS Partners, the University of Notre Dame will partner with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Kings College London (KCL) to present the summer symposium, “London, Cinema and Media Gateway,” July 18-20, 2019.

The 4thVampire Academic Conference  Lauderdale House, Highgate Village, London 10th-13thJuly 2019  ‘Hammer, Highgate And The Vampyre’   MAIN THEMES: The Undeath of Hammer Films  The Tall Tale of the Highgate Vampire Two Centuries of Polidori’s The Vampyre   KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: Kim Newman Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster.

XXVII IAMHIST Conference POWER AND THE MEDIA (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 16-19 July 2019) Confirmed keynote speakers include: James Curran (Goldsmiths, University of London) Jennifer Smyth (University of Warwick) Papers and panels are invited for the 2019 conference of the International Association for Media and History.

Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the eighth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), Ireland, July 16th – 18th, 2019. EUPOP 2018 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms.

The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry