In person ONLY The American University of Rome 13-15 June 2024 The twenty-first century has witnessed a burgeoning of non-fiction filmmaking in Italy, facilitated in part by technological developments and in part by the desire to respond to rapidly shifting social realities and changes in the natural environment.

This full-day preconference will provide a space for those studying audiences through interviews, focus groups, ethnography, and other human-based qualitative approaches to share both findings and methodological tips and interrogations. Excited advertising rhetoric tells us that everything has changed, and certainly at industrial and textual levels, much has already been done and said to chart the shifting landscape.

The 21 ^st century has seen an exponential rise of what can be loosely defined as spiritual media and culture – virtual worlds are replete with reports of mystical experiences, and astrology apps, tarot readings on TikTok, or wicca influencers on YouTube can attract millions of subscribers, followers, and views.

CALL FOR PAPERS – PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY LEGEND 40th conference International Society for Contemporary Legend Research Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK | 26-30 June, 2023

The 32nd International Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen , will be held in Glasgow from Friday 30 June to Sunday 2 July 2023. Our keynote speakers will be: Professor Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS University of London Professor Jennifer Fay, Vanderbilt University Professor Kara Keeling, University of Southern California Screen editors Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street welcome proposals for

Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places  A Three-Day International Interdisciplinary Conference King’s College London Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG 19-21 June 2023 Co-organisers: Professor Paul McDonald, Kings College London;

Co-hosted by the PANCOPOP research team &

This event will take place face-to-face Keynote presentations from Dr Beth Johnson (Leeds) | Dr Laura Mayne (Hull) | Prof Sarah Street (Bristol) Proposal deadline: Friday 24 February 2023 Send proposals to: britishfilmandtvnorthumbria@gmail.com Send queries to: Dr Johnny Walker

Association of Adaptation Studies Conference 7-9 June 2023, School of EDACS, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom In the last few years, there has been a number of discussions around authenticity in our cultural narratives: who can play what role? Who can write a particular story? These have come from both audiences and the larger film and literature industry, underpinned by the idea of authenticity.

FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 20-22 June 2023 (in-person) Deadline for submissions (20-minute presentations, panels of three 20-minute papers, or practice-based research/workshops): 16 January 2023.