I recently retired after more than 30 years of teaching. Much of those thirty years were spent teaching about television, both making TV and theorising about it.  For the last decade I was very much a TV studies person.

The new series of Doctor Who is notable for its inclusivity.  Much attention has rightly focused on the long-overdue casting of a woman to play the Doctor and on Jodie Whittaker’s predictably superb performance.  Those of us who believed that a woman Doctor was desirable, not only for gender equality but also to refresh Doctor Who , seem to have been vindicated.

Issue 15 Call for Papers DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Special Issue: Twin Peaks: Season Three Guest Editors: Matt Miller and Matthew Lau This special issue of NANO will explore the significance of the recently released third season of the seminal television show, Twin Peaks.

Intersectionality as a concept was born at the end of the 1980s, and has proven influential ever since as a method for analysing film and media productions as well as in the fields of critical race and disability studies, feminist theory and transnational studies.

SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives“ (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, with ISSN and indexed in major international databases. It publishes 2 issues per year, and is mainly devoted to television seriality.

Call for Papers:#Resist: Protest and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era USA (edited volume, Rowman and Littlefield) Editors: Dr Giuliana Monteverde and Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University) We invite abstracts for chapters that explore protest and resistance in relation to Brexit Britain and the Trump-era United States.

Goliath . It began last year, and the second season became available this past northern summer. It’s on Amazon Prime, and boasts the signature of David E Kelley and Billy Bob Thornton, inter alios . The second season trailer brings home so much to me. I’ve stayed in the hotel where the protagonist lives and works. I’ve poked my nose into the sawdust-on-the floor cracker bar where he drinks.

Call for papers: Maison Française d’Oxford 2019 Interdisciplinary Conference: Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction 25-27 April 2019   The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals that examine the themes of race, gender and technology in science-fiction from the classical period to the present, in all media (print, film, television…) and from any continent.

Association of Art Historians 2019 Annual Conference, Brighton 4-6 April: CFP: Stranger Things: Locating design in science fiction and fantasy films Session Convenors: Sally-Anne Huxtable National Museums Scotland s.huxtable@nms.ac.uk Robyne Calvert The Glasgow School of Art r.calvert@gsa.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS – ERC Healthy Self as Body Capital &

Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School Television drama, law and national identity Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers: Friday 6 September 2019, University of Westminster Television drama plays a seminal role in the cultural life of nations, and the way in which it depicts national identities merits scholarly exploration.