International conference . Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London ** ** Dates : 29-30 March 2019 ** ** Confirmed speakers : Stephen Bann (Bristol); Rebecca Coleman (Goldsmiths); Paolo Jedlowski (Calabria); Anna Reading (KCL); Michael Rothberg

With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the familiar sounds of his orchestral anthem, and his eventful explorations into the arcana of world religions, Indiana Jones – archeologist, adventurer, and ophidiophobe – has become one of the most recognizable heroes of the silver screen.

14th SAAS Conference “The Image and the Word: Interactions between American Literature, Media, Visual Arts and Film” University of Salamanca (Spain) 10-12 April, 2019 Word and image play an important role in perception.

CFP: “Rethinking the distinction between old and new media” Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Guest editors: Frederik Lesage (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Simone Natale (Loughborough University, UK) Expected date of publication: August 2019 Since at least the early 1990s with the publication of groundbreaking works such as

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Legacy of Watership Down: Animals, Adaptation, Animation An interdisciplinary symposium University of Warwick Saturday 10th November 2018   Keynote speaker: Dr Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University) 2018 marks 40 years since the release of Watership Down, Martin Rosen’s acclaimed 1978 animated film.

Deadline:  31st July 2018 Cultivate is an annual, open-access journal based in the University of York at the Centre for Women’s Studies. We are postgraduate-led and interested in the practices, nuances and articulations of feminism. We are based in Europe but open to global submissions of all kinds of studies related to or about feminism.

Literature/Film Association Annual Conference SPACE, PLACE & ADAPTATION November 29-December 1, 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Keynote: Christopher Schaberg, Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans Holding our annual conference in New Orleans raises questions of space, place, and adaptation in the study of literature, film, and media.

New research agendas for the study of sports media (re)presentation(s) of sportswomen and femininity symposium, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences of Northumbria University on 12th October 2018, is now open. For more details or to book, please visit the BSA website.

This post has originally been published on the Women’s Film and Television History Network blog. Katarzyna Paszkiewicz gives an exclusive insight into the evolution of her new publication, co-edited with Mary Harrod, which develops key theoretical questions in relation to women and genre.

**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.