The Handmaid’s Tale : Gender, Genre Adaptation – a one-day symposium Saturday, 30 September, 2017 Film Studies @ Worcester Jenny Lind Building, University of Worcester Despite being written over 35 years ago, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), set in a totalitarian New England where fertile women are kept prisoner in reproductive servitude, has been making headlines in 2017 due to the remarkable

Friday 10 November 2017 – Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne Since its first programmes aired in 1984, Canal+ has played a role in shaping not just the paysage audiovisuel français but also French society, culture, politics and economics in many significant ways.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 7 JULY 2017 ECREA Television Studies Conference 2017 The Future of European Television: Between Transnationalism and Euroscepticism From 15-11-2017 To 17-11-2017 Facultad de ciencias de la Comunicación Málaga Organized by the ECREA Television Studies section and the University of Málaga (Spain), in collaboration with “Production and circulation of media contents”

Donald Trump’s now infamous phrase ‘such a nasty woman’, uttered about his then rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates, was rudely used to patronise and belittle Clinton, who is known for being a strong, independent (and feminist) politician. In reality, Trump is not the only figure to characterise today’s women in this manner.

This symposium seeks to explore the relationships between truth, lies and media consumption throughout history and across media and cultural platforms. Fake news is not new.

Deadline: September 1st 2017 As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age”, Time in Television Narrative : Exploring Temporality in Twenty – First – Century (2012) reminds us however that time is at the very center of the television narrative, and that television differs from its cinematic equivalent notably by its incremental approach to storytelling.

CFP: Global Studies of Childhood Special Issue: Children and Popular Culture Guest Editor: Patrick Cox, Rutgers University Childhood and youth are always contested notions, but perhaps nowhere more than in popular culture.

It is the end of May, and we are coming to the end, I assume, of the high-budget, ‘quality’, event-TV dramas that follow the blockbuster repeat series of the winter months. In Britain, this meant that we got to see a lot of dramas that were usually based on real crime cases.

— Roger Ailes, 1995 (13) Among the sheer glut of head-spinning headline-grabbing news stories emanating from the American political culture this spring, one arrived with far less fanfare than it deserved: former Fox News chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, died on 18 May 2017.  A lifelong sufferer of hemophilia, he fell and hit his head at his Palm Beach, Florida home on May 10 and eventually succumbed to severe bleeding.

A few years ago, whilst I was a PhD student, I remember persuading one of my non-UK housemates to join me on a Saturday evening to watch the broadcast of a new episode of Doctor Who (BBC 2005- ). It was definitely a Tennant-era one – my instincts tell me ‘Forest of the Dead’ (2008) – but that’s not as important as what they said fifty minutes later.

Deadline: June 15, 2017 In cooperation with the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland, the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University (UdS) will hold a 2-day American Studies Graduate Forum that invites doctoral and advanced Master students to present their current projects-in-progress in a workshop-style setting.