**Organised by the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures of the University of Hull ** with support from the Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies project (part of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative) A recent article in the Evening Standard posed the question ‘Is it a coincidence that just as governments are seeking to close their borders, television is opening them?’ (March 15 2017).

Adaptation and the Protean Poetics of Margaret Atwood Laboratoire TIL (EA 4182) Center for Canadian Studies (Dijon) Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté Dijon, France, February 1st, 2019 Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry.

Prisoner and Wentworth Edited Book: Chapter Proposals due 21 May 2018 We invite proposals for chapters for an edited collection called Wentworth is the New Prisoner * *(working title), which is developing in the wake of a successful conference of the same name held in Melbourne in April 2018. We already have interest from publishers.

CALL FOR PAPERS “ILLUSTRATION AND ADAPTATION” International conference organised by TIL and ILLUSTR4TIO University of Burgundy, 10 & 11 October 2019 Keynote speakers: Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University, UK) and Dave McKean (artist, UK) Illustr4tio’s forthcoming bilingual international conference will deal with the relationship between illustration and adaptation.

The Wentworth is the New Prisoner Conference was held on April 5 ^th and 6 ^th at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Harold Pinter died ten years ago, and the anniversary is being recognised this summer by a season of screenings of his TV and film work at the British Film Institute’s BFI South Bank cinemas in London.  As most people know, Pinter’s output spanned theatre, film, television and radio drama, poetry, prose and political essays.

Following successful symposia on Interiors and Film in New York and Kingston, UK, Professor Pat Kirkham and Kingston University’s Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC: Director Professor Penny Sparke) call for proposals for articles and chapters for two publications. The first is a book that Bloomsbury will publish (Rebecca Barden and her team will be guiding the process at the publishing end).

Prisons, prisoners, and crime are attracting unprecedented levels of interest from both predictable sources (tabloid media) to more unexpected (such as the prison setting of Paddington 2 ). Globally, but especially in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, the real life prison population is rising dramatically.

Last year I had the opportunity to spend time researching the women involved in the development of early BBC television, from the experimental years of 1936-1939 and from the relaunch of the service following the end of the war, to the professionalization of the service by the 1950s.

Political Studies Association: Media & Politics Group Annual Conference 2018 Political Reversals and Renewals University of Nottingham: 8-9 ^th November 2018 The theme for this year’s Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group conference is Political Reversals and Renewals.

SERIES Vol 5 No 2 – Television Serials in Asia – Call for papers This themed issue of Series aims to contribute to the study of television serials produced in the Asian region and make them more widely known. The television serial is a prominent expression of popular culture across Asia, especially in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, but has not been extensively studied.