This symposium seeks to explore the relationships between truth, lies and media consumption throughout history and across media and cultural platforms. Fake news is not new.

Deadline: September 1st 2017 As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age”, Time in Television Narrative : Exploring Temporality in Twenty – First – Century (2012) reminds us however that time is at the very center of the television narrative, and that television differs from its cinematic equivalent notably by its incremental approach to storytelling.

CFP: Global Studies of Childhood Special Issue: Children and Popular Culture Guest Editor: Patrick Cox, Rutgers University Childhood and youth are always contested notions, but perhaps nowhere more than in popular culture.

It is the end of May, and we are coming to the end, I assume, of the high-budget, ‘quality’, event-TV dramas that follow the blockbuster repeat series of the winter months. In Britain, this meant that we got to see a lot of dramas that were usually based on real crime cases.

— Roger Ailes, 1995 (13) Among the sheer glut of head-spinning headline-grabbing news stories emanating from the American political culture this spring, one arrived with far less fanfare than it deserved: former Fox News chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, died on 18 May 2017.  A lifelong sufferer of hemophilia, he fell and hit his head at his Palm Beach, Florida home on May 10 and eventually succumbed to severe bleeding.

A few years ago, whilst I was a PhD student, I remember persuading one of my non-UK housemates to join me on a Saturday evening to watch the broadcast of a new episode of Doctor Who (BBC 2005- ). It was definitely a Tennant-era one – my instincts tell me ‘Forest of the Dead’ (2008) – but that’s not as important as what they said fifty minutes later.

Deadline: June 15, 2017 In cooperation with the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland, the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University (UdS) will hold a 2-day American Studies Graduate Forum that invites doctoral and advanced Master students to present their current projects-in-progress in a workshop-style setting.

Deadline: 29 Sept 2017 The Bamberg Graduate School of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies (BaGraLCM), in cooperation with the departments of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Bamberg, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on war, trauma, and disease in past and present from March 9 to March 11, 2018.

Call for chapters: Proposals submission deadline: 1 ^st September 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 ^th September 2017 Full chapters due: 15 ^th January 2018 Planned submission of manuscript: 1 ^st March 2018 Overview: “Science fiction is the major non-realistic mode of imaginative creation of our epoch. Why?

Serialised Storytelling organises the second international conference “Cultures, memories, values” hosted by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, the Netherlands. Conference date: 30th and 31st of October 2017. Storytelling in a serialised form has become a popular vehicle to convey certain values, key events and many specific traits of a given culture.

“What’s in the box?” Dean Winchester asks in “The Magnificent Seven,” episode one of the third season of Supernatural , to the befuddlement of his brother Sam and their avuncular mentor Bobby Singer, but to the delight of fans who revel in the show’s wry meta elements. Dean is of course quoting Detective Mills, Brad Pitt’s character in the thriller Se7en (1995), directed by David Fincher.