Film Studies Announcements
Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference
24 June-5 July 2024 (online)
Television and Sustainability
In 2015, the UN proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are meant to guide humankind towards a more equitable future on a liveable planet. They address questions of health, society, culture and the distribution of resources while also being aware of the urgency to address climate change.
Call for Papers: Narrating the nonhuman
Hosted by Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS) Post-Graduate Researchers
Dates: 30th-31st May 2024
Online and in-person event.
Location: Edge Hill University, St. Helens Road, L39 4QP.
Narratives are powerful. They are also changeable. Narratives can promote empathy, action and awareness, but can also normalise misconceptions and mistreatment of the more-than-human. They can be coercive, and often need to be challenged, improved, and/or preserved.
The Journal of Popular Culture is looking for those who are interested in reviewing books. These reviews will be due on March 31, 2024. If you have a completed Master's degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are interested in writing a review for us, please contact me at kiuchiyu@msu.edu, noting your preferred title and your mailing address. Please also send a short explanation to state what makes you a good reviewer of the book (or you may send me your CV).
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 8 January to 15 January. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Film. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.
Dear all,
We are happy to announce the fifth edition of Dastavezi the Audio-Visual South Asia!
Access it here:
https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/issue/view/1369
Alongside an audio-visual production focusing on memory and film imagery, this issue features visual essays covering various topics, including “Siddha photography “ protest art in South Asia’s Himalayan regions, and the relationship between text and images in Bengali literature:
Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 12.1 is out now.
Special Issue: ‘Navigating the Mediterranean’
Guest edited by Giovanna Summerfield and Rosario Pollicino.
Looking at the Mediterranean as a geo-cultural space where people have met, assimilated, transformed and continue to do so, and at the relationship of cinema and media as representations of these ongoing movements and processes, the contributions of this special issue are pivotal in understanding the contemporary Mediterranean cultural identity.
For more information about the
Happy New Year! We are pleased to announce that our brand new Winter 2024 issue on Media Identitopias is now live! Read guest editors Rebecca Wanzo and Reem Hilu’s introduction “The Long History of Social Media” for free here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/1/1/198679/Editors-IntroductionThe-Long-History-of-Social
Read the full issue here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/10/1
Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 18 December to 25 December. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Film. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.
Dear colleagues,
Please find below our updated call for papers for the Asian Sound Cultures Conference 2024 at The University of Sheffield. We managed to iron out some technical hiccups and are happy to announce that the conference will be in a hybrid format.
With best wishes, also for a lovely festive season,
Iris Haukamp
Updated Call for Papers: Asian Sound Cultures Conference
Date: 18-19 September 2024
Location: The University of Sheffield, UK (hybrid)