I have spent much of the last two years in the company of a long dead British actor.

Conference Call for Papers Ireland, 27/28/29 July 2018. Hosted by the Dublin Workers Film Festival, the Progressive Film Club and the Radical Film Network Dublin. The Radical Film Network is an international network of organisations involved in politically-engaged and/or aesthetically innovative film culture. Dublin is the host for the 2018 Radical Film Network interdisciplinary conference.

With the invention of radio, the stories that we heard came to us through the airwaves. In the past, audiences tuned in to listen to their favorite shows, including soap operas/serialized narratives. With the advertisers’ support (mainly soap and detergent companies in the US context), radio channels produced and aired serial dramas regularly.

Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85 Call for papers A Conference at the School of Music, University of Leeds 8-9 June 2018 With the support of the Sadler Seminar fund at the University of Leeds Convenors for the University of Leeds: Tim Boon, Marian Jago, James Mooney, Simon Popple and Edward Venn ‘Music 625’ refers to the television era ushered-in by the higher definition output of BBC2 in 1964.

Symposium on Sport and Media, Loughborough University, May 16-17 2018 Changing the rules of the game?

‘Islamophobia’ and ‘race’ are contested terms in contemporary political and media discourse around the world(Hajjat & Mohammed, 2013; Massoumi et al., 2017; Sayyid & Vakil, 2009). In the case of heated debates in France, for example, academic and/or antiracist arguments – themselves far from homogenous – struggle to be heard, and these terms are often censored more or less explicitly.

CALL FOR PAPERS/CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Edited Book Publisher: Edward Elgar The Nordic Wave in Place Branding Editors: Cecilia Cassinger*, Andrea Lucarelli**, Szilvia Gyimóthy*** Nordic place branding is an emerging field of academic research and practice. The evolution, expansion, and geographical spread of place branding in the Nordic region has been studied in several ways and is echoed in recent journal articles and special issues.

The University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University are happy to present The NECS 2018 Conference Media Tactics and Engagement 27-29 June 2018 Hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam Pre-Conference Media in Transition 26 June 2018 Hosted by Utrecht

Temporality and normativity are interwoven with one another: Timings convey norms and normative shifts. Rhythms enforce forms of life, conveying rules and principles. Flows of time fit experience and expectation to one another producing specific versions of past, present and future. The end of time conjures up both utopian and dystopian visions.

We are very pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for the forthcoming event ‘ 25 Years of Jurassic Park (1993): An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Paleontological Imagination ’ will be Dr Steve Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh. Dr Brusatte is a paleontologist who is also passionate about education and communicating science to the public.

**CALL FOR PAPERS ** The group Tecmerin (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), within the Research Project “Cine y televisión en España 1986-1995: modernidad y emergencia de la cultura global” (CSO2016-78354-P), organizes the International Conference “ Cinema, TV and Popular Culture in the 1990s: Spain-Latin America ” on October 17th, 18th and 19th, 2018 (5th Tecmerin Academic Encounter). The 1990s are the beginning of a new