CALL FOR PAPERS Hugh Grant Special issue of Celebrity Studies Journal, edited by Alice Guilluy (London Film Academy) and Eleonora Sammartino (Imperial College London) Deadline for proposals: 18th January 2020

You know, fan conventions and academic conferences are very similar really. You sort of feel the same enthusiasm crackling when you walk into the reception area, and know that you’re going to be surrounded by people with whom you can engage directly because they’re speaking the shared language of the sub-culture. And there’s often great guest speakers and neat screenings.

Priests and paedophiles, families and fragmentation: Oz “It’s No Place Like Home.” Thus reads the tagline of the transgressive prison show Oz, which premiered on HBO in 1997.

** ‘Dreams and Atrocity: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Trauma in Art, Literature and Visual Culture’** Call for Papers * * 120 years after Sigmund Freud first posited his seminal theorisation of dreams in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), cultural interest in sleep and dreaming is becoming increasingly pronounced, both within, and outside of, scholarly spheres.

The last five years have seen a sea change in debates around regulation of digital platforms. There is a growing view that nation-state regulation is warranted to address public concerns about the market power, lack of accountability and lack of transparency of the leading tech giants. This symposium will bring together communications and media policy and industry researchers to consider critical issues around digital platform regulation.

University of East Anglia invites proposals for An International Symposium on Media and the Middle East. The symposium aims to bring together scholars, and filmmakers from around the world interested in exploring ideas of Resistance and Activism in the Middle East in relation to a range of media including film, television, radio, video, and digital media. Papers may be historical or contemporary in scope.

Media and Breakdown: International Symposium at Lund University, Sweden Department of Communication and Media, March 19th 2020 Organisers: Annette Hill and Hario Satrio Priambodho Break up, break down, and break away: variations on media and the breaking down of infrastructures, technicalities, texts, contexts and social relations are the basis of this international symposium Media and Breakdown.

Guest Editors: Matt Crofts and Layla Hendow, University of Hull. The post-apocalyptic wasteland holds a powerful symbolic status within the popular imagination. Ravaged by infection, invasion, the supernatural or environmental disaster, the imagery of a deserted and hostile landscape rose to prominence during the Cold War and has remained a fertile source of horror ever since. The wasteland is a nightmare;

In this series of blogs Andreas Halskov interrogates the work of Mary Harron.

In Ireland in recent weeks, national broadcaster, RTÉ, has not only been a news producer but a news item. The broadcaster, facing serious financial pressures, has indicated that it will aim to reduce its budget by selling off assets, reducing the pay of top earners and offering voluntary redundancies.

“You need to watch all the episodes,” stated Professor James Chapman during his keynote speech ‘The forgotten history of the television swashbuckler’ at Egham’s ‘Forgotten, Lost & Neglected TV Drama’ conference in April 2015. And he’s absolutely right. It’s one of the reasons that I enjoyed his Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series volume [i] so much;