The Eighth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference (SIECE) is following up with the previous year’s topic by providing a forum for discussing the online strategies of public service broadcasters and their possible transformations into a new kind of media services.

Call for Presentations: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III: A Research Workshop for PhDs and Early Career Researchers **Friday 3 May 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK **

Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI), De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote speaker: Dr. Shelley Cobb (Associate Professor of Film, University of Southampton). £5 conference free: to be paid in cash upon registration MA travel bursaries available – email cath.postgrad@gmail.com for more information.

As you all know, public broadcasting’s most important task for capitalism is developing genres and audiences, then delivering them to a less-creative private sector for the purposes of profit. Think football, cricket, and basketball.

Keynote Speakers Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts Shaun Cole, Winchester School of Art, University of Southhampton Andrew Reilly, University of Hawaii Convenor Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand

Archiving Dissent: Post-2011 Arab Imagery, Memory and Vernacular Representations of Conflict ** ** The American University of Beirut, Lebanon September 6 &

Migrant states of exception proliferate and intensify across the world. While processes of globalization have fostered movement and enhanced connectivity on a hitherto unprecedented scale, they have also brought the highly uneven distribution of elected and enforced mobility to the fore.

Pithy title, eh? Oh, well; all will be revealed. As part of my sabbatical I have recently re-watched and made extensive notes on every episode of Inspector Morse (ITV, 1987-2000). If I tell you why, I’ll have to take you down the cells. Suffice to say that this activity relates to a future publication.

This symposium will explore the interaction between word and image within media-based practice research. As creative practice has increasingly found a home within academia, and as digital technologies have made possible new methodologies and forms of output, the hegemony of the written word within arts and humanities scholarship has been challenged from different directions.

EDEN: All Island Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the Early Doctoral Exchange Network (EDEN) at NUI Galway ‘2019: Between a Rock and a Robot: Humans, Habitat, and Technology’ National University of Ireland, Galway Dates: 26-27th of April **Plenary Speaker: Diane Negra, MRIA, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture **

Ever since Strictly Come Dancing ’s inception in May 2004, settling into the fall season and the ‘build-up’ to the winter holiday period – at least in my own household – has become synonymous with watching Strictly ’s Saturday night entertainment, weekly on BBC1.