Journalism and Media Studies

Deadline for abstracts: 16 April 2021 / Expected date of publication: June 2022

Guest editors: Avishek Ray (National Institute of Technology Silchar), Gabriel Dattatreyan (Goldsmiths),
Usha Raman (University of Hyderabad), Martin Webb (Goldsmiths)

ABSTRACT

This special session seeks to explore scholarly works on images, cultures, identities, and practices that traverse conventionally ‘fixed’ or ‘impermeable’ boundaries. Topics may range widely to include instances of cultural or aesthetic appropriation, mimicry, transmedia narratives, transnational images and identities, and more.

DESCRIPTION

Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, cinema, television, and related media have become increasingly central both to individual lives and to the lives of peoples, groups, and nations. Cinema has become a major form of cultural expression and films both reflect and influence the attitudes and behaviour of people, representing their tensions and anxieties, hopes and desires and incarnating social and cultural determinants of the era in which they were made. 

This summer school will cover topics in Film Studies, Media and Communication, Visual Culture, Oral History and Documentary Techniques. The school courses will explore the representations of time, space and ritual, gender roles and gendered gaze, they will also discuss memory, remembering and (auto)biographical practices, especially in conflict narratives.

Virtual ESPRit Postgraduate Workshop on Periodical Studies
(plus preceding Workshop on Academic Poster Presentations)

Due to travel restrictions that prevent Field School courses in Mongolia, the American Center for Mongolian Studies is developing a new offering, the ACMS Online Mongolian Studies courses, that will be available to all interested persons starting in Spring, 2021. The courses will be taught in English, and through the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation will be free for all participants. The program includes 7 courses by U.S. and Mongolian instructors from Spring to Fall of 2021, and as of now, the Session 1 courses are accepting new enrollments.
 

The Popular Culture Association will be holding their annual conference virtually, June 2-5, 2021.

The Biographies Area is soliciting papers that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include: