Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one-paragraph biography to SoundOnScreen2021@gmail.com by the deadline stated above. The inaugural Sound on Screen conference welcomes submissions from scholars that explore the relationship between music and/or sound and the screen.
In New Zealand, where I’m lucky enough to have been stranded due to the pandemic, we’ve become accustomed to 1pm press briefings, where COVID-19 case numbers and any changes to public health measures are announced.
The Superhero Project: 5th Global Meeting Friday 10th to Sunday 12th September 2021 Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Germany “This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle – broken, spent, unable to move.
Given the uncertainty of the current context, our intention is to hold** a hybrid conference (attendees may deliver their papers online or in person). **If this hybrid model were not possible, we would then switch to a fully-online conference.
Call for proposals: Steve McQueen: “I want the burden”. 14th Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium, University of Sussex, online, provisional date: Friday 24 September 2021
Okay girls and boys, gather round. Need your help here. Need your brains. Need your smarts. You’re clever people. Most of you have got a degree. Many of you have several degrees. And probably a fair few have gone on for the doctorates – which reminds me, that rash at the back of my neck hasn’t cleared up yet so maybe you could take a look at it when we’ve sorted out this vastly more important issue.
Organized by: Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Film and Television Venue: Virtual Zoom Event Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Christian Katzenbach (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin) Robert Prey (University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts) Diğdem Sezen (Teesside University, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Department of Transmedia Digital Art
We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2021 that will take place at the University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, mainly from 20-24 September 2021 (with activities before and after these dates). Because of the pandemic situation, it is impossible to plan a physical meeting, so this Summer School will be an online event. THE FOCUS The ECREA
Confirmed keynote scholars : Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Kyle Bishop, Kevin Corstorphine, Justin Edwards, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Michael Howarth, Evert J. van Leeuwen, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Elizabeth Parker + Michelle Poland, David Punter, Julia Round, Christy Tidwell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Maisha L. Wester.
In her seminal text Illness as Metaphor (1978), Susan Sontag approaches the discourses around contagious diseases as systems of power and control over civil disobedience and difference. The text poignantly foreshadows the “treatment” of the HIV outbreak by Western public health providers and in the cultural imagination alike.
In Marvel Studios’ WandaVision , we are transported to a familiar television location: suburbia – in fact, we’re almost given a history of suburbia on-screen.
