Techniques of the Fantastic Ninth annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung September 6th – 8th, 2018 at the University of Freiburg/Fribourg (Switzerland) The techniques of the fantastic are primarily associated to futuristic stories and science fiction, in which mankind designs its world under utopic or dystopic conditions.

Date of Event: 8 ^th March  2018 Name of Organization: Centre for Media Research, and the Arts and Humanities Research Institute Ulster University, Northern Ireland Contact Email : hashtagresist2018@gmail.com Organisers: Dr Giuliana Monteverde and Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University) Deadline for Abstracts: 30 ^th November 2017

The editors of Feminist Media Studies’ Commentary and Criticism section invite essay contributions on any topic related to feminism, media and the 1990s. We are particularly interested in submissions from beyond North America and the UK. The Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies aims to publish brief (~1000 words), timely responses to current issues in feminist media culture, for an international readership.

The medium of television is responsible for a huge accumulation of redundant objects: old TV sets and VTRs (and the tables to put them on), superseded production equipment and software, videotape and film that is no longer useable. This raises various questions, from practical to historiographical and methodological ones. What are we to do with this accumulation of objects, many of which are not easily recycled?

The 11th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will be hosted by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. It will take place from Thursday September 13th  to Saturday  September 15th, 2018. Abstracts for original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until December 15, 2017.

This latest offering to CST has partly been inspired by my recent research and planning for a module on American Contemporary Television Drama, and partly inspired by a long fascination with the television anthology series – its place and status in the television landscape. The module, devised by Anthony N Smith at University of Salford, has been handed into my care whilst he undertakes some serious research of his own – and good luck to him.

Digital embeddedness (Markham, 2017) is increasingly shaping how we experience our social lives. At the same time, as all levels of culture and society are shaped by new technological advancements online that lead to new forms of mediatization, the ways and contexts in which digital media are integrated into communicative structures are becoming more diversified and – at the same time – globalized.

For its twenty-ninth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the complex and multiple meanings of love . According to Freud, “it is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.” Is love beyond us? Whether it connotes

In the wake of a successful multidisciplinary and international conference on the intersections between popular culture and notions of place held at Erasmus University Rotterdam (5-7th of April 2017) and initial interest from a reputable academic publisher, contributions are being welcomed for an edited volume entitled: Locating Imagination. Popular Culture, Tourism &

In her most recent blog, Elke Weissmann pointed out a peculiar characteristic of her own television viewing experiences – one that is presumably shared by a wide range of audiences.

During the summer recess period I became mildly obsessed with a television series. It constructed for itself a temporally-unlocatable world which seemed to epitomise Fredric Jameson’s (1991) discussion of postmodern aesthetics as the collapse of distinct time periods into an eternal present. Its diegesis was populated with strange characters who would, in the manner of a soap opera, appear and disappear as they went about their daily duties.