The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction is accepting submissions for a special issue on environmental studies and science fiction to be released in the summer of 2020. Political and intellectual discourse over the last two decades is replete with the ominous potential of climate change.

Centre for Postdigital Cultures annual conference, 4 – 5 June 2020 @ Coventry University, UK CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Kreider + O’Leary Daphne Dragona  Daniel Rourke ‘Infrastructure’ has emerged in recent years as the new academic buzzword.

Visual Depictions of the American West How the West Was Drawn and What It Showed Us Nov 16, 2020, 12:00 PM CET – Nov 20, 2020, 12:00 PM CET University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Calle San Bernardo, 3199, 30123 Venice VE, Italy The American West has been depicted for decades through comic books and graphic novels, including by many authors living outside the U.S. Some of the most famous titles and artists are the Tex Willer series (Tex) by Giovanni

The Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK just premiered the longest slow TV broadcast ever with Svalbard Minute by Minute documenting a nine-day Arctic expedition. Next week the Swedish public service broadcaster SVT will try to convince children that slow TV is also for them with two weeks of live broadcasting from 6.30am to 8pm from a Swedish farm.

It was only last week that I heard of the recent passing of Tony Garnett, who will need no introduction for anyone on nodding terms with British television history. Back in October 2010 I was fortunate enough to interview Tony at his home in London while conducting research for my PhD. I was investigating changes in UK television performance style, and he had worked for some time as an actor before becoming a script editor and producer.

“A room without books is like a body without a soul,” remarked the first century AD Roman philosopher Cicero.  Well, apparently anyway.  He was anti-embezzlement – a good thing – and I’m sure he loved his books too.

ESA RN-18 mid-term conference, Turin, Italy, 10-12/9/2020 We live in times of deepening economic, political, social, ideological and ecological crises that are expressed in widespread precarious labour, the commodification of (almost) everything, the rise of new nationalism, populism and authoritarian forms of capitalism, and ecological destruction.

Editors: Karrȧ Shimabukuro and Wickham Clayton On first consideration it may not seem like “nostalgia” and horror and slasher films have any clear connections. Usually nostalgia is applied to events and experiences that have a pleasant connotation, even if these pleasant feelings are a result of a rose-tinted view of the past.

Cultures of Authenticity: A two-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC), Loughborough University, 6 ^th -7 ^th May 2020

Edited by Professor Richard J. Hand (University of East Anglia) & Professor Mark O’Thomas (University of Greenwich)   We are seeking chapters that engage with the television series American Horror Story created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

Broadcasting, Reloaded.