*CFP* "COUNTER TERRORISM LAWS AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES", CHAPTER BOOK

This anthology is designed to survey the use of counterterrorism laws and their effects on civil liberties, particularly freedom of expression. The editors for the volume will be Dr. Téwodros Workneh and Dr. Paul Haridakis of Kent State University. We are seeking chapter proposals for inclusion in a book proposal we are submitting to Routledge.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States as well as other terrorist-related incidents in different parts of the world have caused profound changes in political, economic, and social relations globally. Nations have aggressively sought a wide range of mechanisms to proactively curb potential threats, such as strengthening controls on immigration, financial transactions, and regulation of communication systems. While arms of executive branches such as law enforcement bodies and even militaries are commonly part of the anti-terrorism apparatus, the most conspicuous common denominator across nations has been the rise of what came to be known as counter-terrorism laws. Today, more than 45 countries in the world have enacted legislation that specifically is designed to address terrorism concerns. 

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE REVISTA DE COMUNICAÇAO DIALÓGICA

The Revista de Comunicação Dialógica has as main objective to contribute to the construction of knowledge about the universe of dialogic communication, which we understand as broadly as possible. Faced with this, we will focus on the entire academic production of the field of independent, community, popular, alternative and, more recently, “mediactivist” communication.

In addition, we will be very interested in the critical production of what is conceived as the political economy of communication that analyzes the ways in which communication systems are organized and in permanent transformation, from which the field of independent communication moves. We will also give special attention to the reflection on participative methodologies of communication research, in order to stimulate the epistemological development of the area. Beyond that, we will accept productions related to the universes of education and culture when thought as production of meanings in a dialogical way, aimed at the promotion of democracy.

*CFP* "DISCOURSES, ACTORS AND CITIZENS IN THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF CONFLICTS: THE CATALAN CASE", CATALAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION & CULTURAL STUDIES

All political conflicts are constructed through communication (Castelló, 2012). Therefore, the field in which this communication takes place becomes a central issue in media studies, and indeed can be considered the conflict itself. The recent Catalan political conflict provides an opportunity to study how a particular case reflects the dynamics established between political actors, media and citizens in the public sphere

The main goal of this special issue is to collect different approaches to the communicative construction of the Catalan conflict from a broad point of view, with full articles and viewpoints on topics that may include, but are not limited to, the following:

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS NECSUS AUTUMN 2019 #GESTURE, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDIA STUDIES

A visible action working as utterance, according to Giorgio Agamben gesture is ‘the exhibition of mediality’. It unveils a process and crystallises a meaning into a temporary form, making visible and yet relying upon a sense of deep tactility and materiality, especially when it is performed by the hands. Eliciting the transmission of a meaning, operating in light of a function, and opening up the realm of potentiality, as well as those of action and creativity, gesture shares much with media in their essence. Vilem Flusser associates it with many areas of and beyond media, and analyses it as a process organised after a mechanism of expression and articulation of a certain meaning as well as of affects. Flusser also dwells on what he calls ‘the gesture of making’ – a formulation which immediately draws attention to the link between the concept of gesture and creativity. This special section of NECSUS aims at gathering contributions studying the concept of gesture in a /non/-medium specific perspective, encouraging instead an interdisciplinary reflection which will shed light onto the many aspects and forms of media in relation to this key theme.

*CFP* "THE MATTER OF THE IMAGINARY. OBJECTS ASSYMBOLS OF DAILY LIFE", SPECIAL ISSUE, IM@GO: A JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY

Objects define the boundaries of our daily life. They reveal a constant in our anthropological root while building up the fenced area of our life. In their being technologically advanced and witnesses of the age of globalization, objects seem to play always the same script: they go with the gesture, they lead it and they give a preestablished direction to the richness of expressions of our body substance (Leroi-Gourhan). This is an anthropological issue that is, however, interwoven with the generation of social forms if we take into account that objects are as a knot of an endless network of exchanges and relations among different personalities that meet around the object itself (Simmel). Sub specie aeternitatis, but also historical matter. Technical and cognitive competences find their expressivity in the reign of the objects: a kind of general intellect gathering around its substance and that finds also ways of opposing the will of its producer and/or user (Marx). Objects are not only the crystallization of a gesture, or of a social knowledge. Into an object are concentrated desires and hopes, memories and feelings, dreams and utopias (Benjamin). Last but not least, objects are signs that, in their referring to one another, create a single global system that surrounds us daily.

*CFP* "HISTORIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN SCREENWRITING", JOURNAL OF SCREENWRITING

The Journal of Screenwriting is calling for articles for a special issue on the historiography of screenwriting, to be published in November 2019. The Journal wants to emphasize the importance of screenwriting history and historiographical research, covering the broad field from media archaeology to historical case studies to a crisis historiography that includes questions of format, copyrights, professionalization, and narrative structure.

In order to better understand the role of screenwriting in filmmaking as well as in academic research, it is our task to scrutinize the development of the craft, profession, and art: the discourses, the pedagogy, and the analysis of screenplays, script development and the work of specific screenwriters and their importance for the development of screenwriting.

*CFP* "MAGICAL CITIES", 4TH CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH'S SUPERNATURAL CITIES RESEARCH GROUP

Magical Cities

15th June 2019

University of Portsmouth

Keynote speaker: Dr Matthew Sangster, University of Glasgow

The University of Portsmouth’s Supernatural Cities research group presents their fourth conference: Magical Cities.

This one-day conference seeks to explore the magical potential of urban environments. To what extent are fictional cities ‘real’ or grounded in reality? In what ways are ‘real’ cities fictional or fantastical creations of their observers and inhabitants? How have people historically imagined the urban environment and through what social, cultural, literary or political lenses? How might the geography of the city space suggest surreal, unreal, supernatural or magical characteristics or personalities? How do such spaces affect our identities?

*CFP* "TRUTH, FICTION, ILLUSION - WORLDS & EXPERIENCE", APL CONFERENCE

Truth, fiction, illusion – worlds & experience

Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) & Theory, Culture, and Society (TCS)

29 May – 2 June 2019: AAU Campus Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Confirmed speakers include Achille Mbembe, Rosi Braidotti, Stuart Elden, Jeff Malpas, Sarah Nuttall and Bernard Stiegler.

Can anything further be said about truth? While contemporary worries about a post-truth world reinforce both ordinary and traditional senses of the word, a philosophical tradition that for centuries has not failed to put truth into question or critique finds itself in a situation echoing that faced by the Greeks at the dawn of philosophy.

*CFP* "PORN TOURISM" FORUM, SPECIAL ISSUE PORN STUDIES JOURNAL

This forum seeks to create scholarly momentum around the concept of “porn tourism.” Expanding and building on established analyses of sex tourism, “porn tourism” provides unique opportunities to study intersections of pornography and relaxation, enjoyment, fandom, and escapism, beyond viewing adult material. 

Widening sex tourism research topics to include other forms of sexually spurred tourism, in addition to turning analysis toward domestic intra-country travel and touristic experiences, can provide novel and useful insights into the racial, gender, class, and sexual dynamics that tourism engenders.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

*CFP* "TRUTH FICTION ILLUSION: WORLDS AND EXPERIENCE", APL & TCS CONFERENCE

“Truth Fiction Illusion: Worlds and Experience”

The Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) together with Theory, Culture & Society (TCS) Conference

Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, 29 May — 2 June 2019

“Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions” — Nietzsche

“Thought is creation, not will to truth” — Deleuze and Guattari

Can anything further be said about truth? While contemporary worries about a post-truth world reinforce both ordinary and traditional senses of the word, a philosophical tradition that for centuries has not failed to put truth into question or critique finds itself in a situation echoing that faced by the Greeks at the dawn of philosophy. 

*CFP* MEDIA AND JOURNALISM RESEARCH GROUP PGR/ECR CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

1st Communication, Media and Journalism Research Group PGR/ECR Conference

10 April 2019, University of Sheffield

This one-day conference seeks to unite postgraduate researchers and early career academics whose research focus lies in the interconnected fields of communication, media and journalism.

The Communication, Media and Journalism research group (CMJ) is home for the research-active staff and students from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Journalism Studies, the Centre for Freedom of the Media and the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History. The CMJ is an interdisciplinary group with research strengths in data science, psychology, history, international relations, journalism, international law, media and communication, political science and sociology. Our researchers work across the broad areas of communication, media and journalism.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS 3RD MAKING TRANSPARENCY POSSIBLE, INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUES 2019

3rd Making Transparency Possible - Interdisciplinary dialogues 2019

Research Conference March 18th 2019

Oslo Metropolitan University - Oslo Met, Norway

"There is a growing global consensus that the secrecy-havens-jurisdictions which undermine global standards for corporate and financial transparency-pose a global problem: they facilitate both money laundering and tax avoidance and evasion, contributing to crime and unacceptably high levels of global wealth inequality." (Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mark Pieth) "International accountability is an issue for lawyers, economists, politicians and lobbyists, scientists, health care professionals, academics, accountancy, business and finance professionals, and more. In a modern approach to accountability journalism, newsrooms should seek to partner and collaborate outside their profession as widely as possible, being open to the expertise of others." (Richard Sambrook).

*CFP* "REALITIES, ALTERNATIVES AND POSSIBILITIES", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN STUDIES

International Conference on Urban Studies

"Realities, Alternatives and Possibilities"

11 May, 2019 – London, UK

Organised by: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Sydney, Shanghai, Dubai are leading global hubs of finance and commerce, research and development, education and media, art and culture, entertainment and tourism. They consist of an intriguing and yet irresistible mixture of past and present, history and commercialism, monuments and leisure culture. Contrasts and paradoxes present these megacities as exceptional phenomena of artificiality and naturalness, livelihood and unpredictability, whose horizontal and vertical mobility has imposed an unmistakable tempo upon the course of the world and has shaped particular physical and mental geographies.

*CFP* "CREATIVE INTERRUPTIONS: A FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND ACTIVISM", BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism

BFI - British Film Institute, London Southbank

17 – 18 June 2019

Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism will explore how marginalised communities use the arts, media and creativity to challenge exclusion. The festival hopes to shed light on the local and global dynamics that rupture, alienate, and marginalise communities and the creative tools used to address and tackle disenfranchisement. Bringing together activists, artists, academics and policy-makers, the festival aims to create new networks and facilitate local, national, and global debates surrounding the arts, media, diversity and inequality.

*CFP* "INTERVENTIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, FREEDOM, AND DEMOCRACY", 2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGES, TEXTS AND SOCIETY

Interventions: New Perspectives on Politics, Freedom, and Democracy

The 2nd Annual Conference of the Journal of Languages, Texts and Society.

A collaboration between University of Leicester, University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University

Friday 10th May 2019 - Leicester, UK.

Keynote Address from Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway

We are excited to announce the CfP for Interventions: New Perspectives on Politics, Freedom, and Democracy, to be held on the 10th May 2019 in Leicester. Interventions is an interdisciplinary conference in partnership with the Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society exploring the relationship between languages, literary forms, performance con/texts, and their socio-political contexts.

*CFP* "TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING IN ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION", CHAPTER BOOK

An edited volume by Dr Filippo Gilardi and Dr Celia Lam (University of Nottingham Ningbo China).

Full chapters due: Not required until confirmation from the publisher (Palgrave Macmillan)

Keywords: China, Asia and Pacific, transmedia storytelling, transmediality, media convergence, transmedia practice, transmedia fiction.

This second call follows a first call for chapters for an edited book on Transmedia in Asia and Pacific region aimed at filling in a gap in current research that mostly focuses on work emanating from Europe, the UK and US.

Based on the different submission selected, the book will mostly focuses on the interplay between top-down and bottom-up transmedia practices (Jenkins, 2006), the transcultural dialogue facilitated by transmedia activism, and transmedia as a framework facilitating formal and informal learning.

*CFP* "EXPANDING THE FRAME: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM AND ITS OTHERS", PANEL AT 16TH RAI FILM FESTIVAL & CONFERECE

Precarious landscapes: forensis and decolonial futures 

a panel at the 16th Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival & Conference

Expanding the Frame: Ethnographic Film and its Others

March 27 - 30, 2019 - The Watershed, Bristol, UK

Convenors: Daryl Celeste Meador (New York University), Toma Peiu (University of Colorado Boulder)

This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming from ethnographers and media artists researching border areas, diasporas and environmentally, politically or economically exposed geographies is expected to challenge notions of centrality and subalternity.

*CFP* "THE DEMOCRATISATION OF HISTORY", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL HUMANITIES

International Conference on Digital Humanities:

“The Democratisation of History”

18 May, 2019 – London, UK

Organised by: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

"History is written by the victors" according to a popular quote. Regardless of the accuracy of this statement, the fact is that history is commonly written by people with authority and bias, thus impeding any attempt to distill one single, objective, definitive truth and record it in immutable books. Moreover, history telling, and analysis inevitably comes with different facets, based on context and the historian's background. Nevertheless, perspective cannot be regarded as a mere thorn for the discipline, but instead can provide invaluable material to enrich, retrospect and constructively investigate past events, so long as proper mechanisms are in place to guarantee the mitigation of deceitful behaviors.

*CFP* 5TH ANNUAL THE IMPACTS OF CIVIC TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (TICTeC)

In association with the OECD, mySociety will be hosting our 5th annual The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC) on 19 & 20 March 2019 in Paris. It will be held at OECD's beautiful Chateau and Conference Centre during OECD's Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum.

Help shape the TICTeC programme by submitting a presentation or session proposal, you have until 11th January.

Do you have research into the impacts of civic tech projects you want to present? Or perhaps you'd like to run a workshop that relates to the conference's theme? TICTeC is that safe space to talk about successes /and/ failures, which really helps to advance the civic technology and digital democracy field.

*CFP* "VISUAL, DIGITAL AND MEDIA CULTURE: IMAGES AMONG GENERATIONS", SPECIAL ISSUE VISTA - VISUAL CULTURE JOURNAL

Social context determined by the culture of media convergence, together with the proliferation of digital devices connected to the Internet and their penetration among citizens, has given relevance, more than ever, to the media and visual culture. Digital media and images have conducted visual field towards the study of consumer´s practices and producer´s image, in accordance with the social aspects and the cultural contexts that characterize them.

To the multidisciplinary approach of media and digital literacy, intergenerational issue is added as the starting point of this issue, which seeks to delve into the fact that the media experience occurs in differentiated conditions, characterized by different cultural (media and digital) competences between generations: analogical and digital citizens, emigrants and digital natives. From the family portraits to the /selfies /of our smartphones, from soap opera and TV series to social networks. Images produced and consumed get increased from a diversity of experiences and memories, from a multiplicity of lifestyles and media uses, which is worth to be rethought from the idea of "generations".

*CFP* "ELOQUENT VANDALS", SPECIAL ISSUE 2 NUART JOURNAL

Following the successful international launch of Nuart Journal, we are now calling for submissions for Issue II.

The theme of Issue II Eloquent Vandals is a provocative link to street art and urban culture’s delinquent roots and the “creative joy of destruction” – evidenced most recently in Banksy and Blu’s high profile acts of auto-iconoclasm, but also present in a plethora of quotidian, human scale, unsanctioned urban interventions. The rise of festival-sponsored neo-liberal muralism sits uneasily with these ungovernable forms of urban creativity. This special issue calls for contributions that celebrate the work of street art’s eloquent vandals, and papers that critically examine attempts to cultivate, instrumentalise, commodify and ‘protect’ the art of the streets.

We welcome submissions from a broad range of authors including cultural heritage workers, historians, critics, cultural and human geographers, political theorists, anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, curators, artists, writers, taggers, anarchists, and out and out vandals.

*CFP* CALL FOR CHAPTER BOOK, NEW ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TV NEWS

Calling all researchers of TV news making! Chapters are invited for the new Routledge Companion to TV News – an edited volume aiming to collate recent research of the making of TV news.

Deadline for submitting your chapter is Thursday the 10th of January. Submissions should be no more than 200-250 words. Submit your chapter idea to Line Hassall Thomsen at: LHT@cc.au.dk.

The book is under contract with Routledge, to be published end of 2019 in the Routledge Companions series.

The book is edited by Line Hassall Thomsen (Aarhus University, Denmark).

At a time where TV news is struggling and changing like never before, this book will take readers through an impressive range of essays on the current state and practices of TV news making today.

*CFP* "NEW MEDIA AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS", CHAPTER BOOK

Social media and new social facilities made it necessary to develop new media design processes with different components. Sustainability of communication through social media, sustainability of communication, informational and rapid acquisition of information, information transfer or information tracking, eradication of limits in the acquisition of information, digital pollution and digital load concepts are reflected in the design processes. 

While the sources of access to information and the provision of information are limited in the past, it has become limitless within the framework of today's social networks. In this context, all design environments have become open to development with a renewed and more dynamic structure in order to exist on the new media. Social media is a structure where users create online communities, share content, share content, share ideas, and have a dynamic and high level of interaction (Ellison & Boyd, 2013) .The interaction level is high, with active participation target audience, dynamic structure and effective - It is one of the most prominent technologies in the new media due to the creation of a communication platform. The acceptance of social media as an ordinary part of life as a new media technology increases its popularity. In addition, Web 2.0 tools in the context of rapid technological developments are developing social media every day and these developments include a continuum of active participation (Glynn, Huge & Hoffman, 2012). 

*CFP* "JOURNALISM FROM ABOVE", WORKSHOP ON DRONES AND JOURNALISM

Journalism from above

Invitation to workshop on drones and journalism

Sundsvall, Sweden, 10–12 April 2019

DRONES have quickly become ubiquitous in numerous sectors of society. One of the most interesting developments concerns the application of drones in media production and journalism. Researchers have called the early media use of drones a disruptive innovation, and a new genre named drone reporting has been proposed. However, the view from above is also connected to a 'surveillance gaze' in modern society, where aerial overview and CCTV play key roles. Some empirical studies have indicated that the actual use of drones by the media is limited by safety concerns and integrity issues, as well as legal uncertainty. Drones can therefore be seen as a recent example of how the meanings and uses of new media technologies are always subject to negotiation and experimentation by different actors and interests in society.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, REGULAR ISSUE OF ESSACHESS, JOURNAL FOR COMMUNICATION STUDIES

This regular issue of ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies published once a year intends to offer a panoramic, an inter and pluridisciplinary view on the matters related to information and communication sciences by bringing together scholars and researches from different disciplinary fields which present new tendencies in terms of theories, concepts, methodologies, empirical results, etc.

The rich articulation of different scientific points of view on a large diversity of topics and the impact of new emerging themes (especially related to the digitalization and technology) on communication sciences are the main objective of this regular issue.

The aim is to receive submissions of papers regarding both theoretical and applied researches that are meaningful for information and communication sciences.

SEGUNDA CONVOCATORIA SEMINARIO DOIMECO 2018-2019

Estimadxs compañerxs de doctorado:

Queremos comunicaros que abrimos convocatoria para participar en el segundo cuatrimestre del seminario DOIMECO 2018-2019. Como ya sabéis, se trata de un espacio en el que compartir experiencias, ideas, herramientas, dudas e, incluso, frustraciones entre doctorandos. Una sesión que podréis aprovechar al máximo en función de vuestros objetivos, ya sea para realizar un simulacro de defensa de tesis, presentar vuestra evolución en la investigación, exponer los obstáculos que os estáis encontrando, entre otras cosas.

Si os interesa participar, escribid al correo seminariodoimeco@gmail.com, indicando qué mes del primer cuatrimestre os vendría bien presentarnos vuestra exposición y un pequeño resumen en el que se indique cuál es el tema que deseáis tratar. La convocatoria permanecerá abierta hasta completar fechas.

Os deseamos unas muy felices fiestas y nos vemos en la próxima sesión, que anunciaremos durante el mes de enero.

Seminario DOIMECO.

*CFP* "NONVIOLENCE AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LONDON CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

“Nonviolence and Intercultural Dialogue” International Conference. 8-9 June, 2019 – London, UK. Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.

“We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed, but we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it” – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi. 

The principle of nonviolence, also known as nonviolent resistance, rejects the use of physical violence to achieve social or political change. History shows that the success of peaceful social transformation depends largely on individuals who are charismatic, knowledgeable, skilled in the strategies and methods of nonviolence (Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, Chavez, Walesa, Dalai Lama, Louise Patterson, Menchu and others). Gene Sharp coined the term revolutionary nonviolence in the 20th century and transformed the meaning of the nonviolence from the passive to an active agent as a framework for creating peace.

*CFP* "INTRODUCTION TO GREEK TELEVISION STUDIES: (RE)READING GREEK TELEVISION FICTION SINCE 1989", SPECIAL ISSUE FILMICON, JOURNAL OF GREEK FILM STUDIES

In December 2016, in an international conference entitled “50 years of Greek Television” that took place in Thessaloniki, organized by the Laboratory of Cultural and Visual Studies of the Department of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, both well-established and emerging scholars came together to discuss the past, present, and future of (the academic study of) Greek television. The conference delivered a wide array of arguments in favor of a fresh and unapologetic – yet rigorous – approach to the study of the popular medium, as well as its content, production conditions, technological transformations, historical and socio-political parameters, and impact on Greek society. With this rejuvenated interest in the study of Greek television as an overarching guideline, this special issue of Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies aspires to introduce the theme of Greek Television Studies, with a particular focus on the study of television fiction made and seen within the Greek context since 1989.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATING RELIGION", SOCREL ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CARDIFF UNVERSITY

Sociology of Religion Study Group (SocRel)

Annual Conference 2019

9-11 July 2019, Cardiff University

Communicating Religion

Charles Hirschkind (University of California-Berkeley)

Mia Lövheim (Uppsala University)

Jolyon Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)

As scholars of religion, we are all tasked with communicating religion in one way or another – to students, to the public, and to our research community. Moreover, what we study is itself a message: participants in our studies and creators of the documents we analyse are communicating religion, and what we receive as data is what Giddens referred to as the ‘double hermeneutic,’ or ideas and experiences that have already been mediated. What is the religion communicated to us? How do we communicate religion, and what is it that we communicate when we’re doing it?

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN DIGNITY: DISPUTED RIGHTS, CONTESTED TRUTHS", IAMCR MADRID 2019 CONFERENCE

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites the submission of abstracts of papers and proposals for panels for the 2019 Congress of the Association, which will be held from 7 to 11 July, 2019 at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

IAMCR conferences address a wide diversity of topics defined by our 32 thematic sections and working groups. We also propose a single central theme to be explored throughout the conference with the aim of generating and exploring multiple perspectives. This is accomplished through plenary and special sessions, and in some of the sessions of the sections and working groups. The central theme for 2019 focuses on communication, technology, and human dignity.

*CFP* "INTERROGATING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS", ISSUE 6 IAFOR, JOURNAL OF MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND FILM

Earlier this year, the IAFOR MediAsia 2018 conference featured a theme of ‘Fearful Futures’ that encouraged scholars to reflect upon the role of arts, humanities, media and cultural studies in the contemporary global context of information/disinformation exchange, national and international tensions and polarised politics.

This issue of IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication and Film extends this theme with a specific focus on social movements. It encourages scholars to examine how social movements form, spread and are represented in our contemporary social media age; to evaluate the impact of social movements; and to consider the national and international contexts of social movements.

Authors are encouraged to consider the implications of social movements within specific socio-political and cultural contexts.

*CFP* "MEDIA, DIPLOMACY AND SOFT POWER: EXPLORING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN EMERGING MARKETS AND WESTERN COUNTRIES", UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA CONFERENCE

Media, Diplomacy and Soft Power:

Exploring the Relations Between Emerging Markets and Western Countries

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 20th-21st, 2019

Confirmed keynote speaker: Stanley Rosen (University of Southern California). A second keynote speaker will be soon announced

Organized by Marco Cucco (Università di Bologna), Gertjan Willems (University of Antwerp) and Zhan Zhang (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Media products, in particular audiovisual works, have always been used both as soft power tools for shaping or branding the image and reputation of their producing countries, and as a diplomatic platform for facilitating international relations and trade. Soft power strategies involve public and private stakeholders working in different areas within a wide, complex and well-orchestrated plan. However, due to the fundamental role of culture, media always play a crucial role in any plan of soft power and strategic marketing.

*CFP* "MIGRATING WORLD: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

International Conference  

"Migrating World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration"

23 March, 2019 – University of Greenwich, London

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

“History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.” – Ellsworth Huntington

Migration has been a constant feature of human history – “homo migrans” have existed ever since “homo sapiens”. Recently the themes of migration and integration have been especially topical in Europe and in other parts of the world due to massive and ever-growing movement of population. These spreading in-flows of immigrants have a strong impact on the social, economic and political climate of host countries, which are often highly challenged by the growing number of immigrants and, therefore, have to review their immigration and integration policies to adjust to the contemporary processes of globalization. 

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS ISSUE 46 OF ZER JOURNAL ON TELEVISION

ZER is a semi-annual journal on communication edited by the Basque Public University and it is beginning a transformation stage. Among its new objectives, the journal will focus on highlight specific topics. It is not related to monographs, so ZER will continue to publish articles focused on communication. 

ZER is inviting a call for papers for issue 46, May 2019, from scholars whose research interest connects with television. In recent decades, some voices have warned about the future of television and audiovisual media and have questioned its media centrality.

ZER aims to address the process of reconfiguration and adaptation of the contemporary television panorama. These are the suggested topics:

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS 2019 FILM-PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

It’s my great please to announce the CFP for the 2019 Film-Philosophy conference to be held at the University of Brighton July 9-11.

We invites proposals for presentations on any subject related to film and philosophy. There is no single overall theme.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Victor Fan, King’s College London

Professor Janet Harbord, Queen Mary University London

Dr Andrew Klevan, University of Oxford

Associate Professor Jane Stadler, University of Queensland Australia

*CFP* "DARK SCREENS: THE GEOPOLITICS OF NORDIC TELEVISION DRAMA", SPECIAL ISSUE NORDICOM REVIEW

Nordic Europe’s dramatic television series – from Borgen to The Bridge to Occupied- currently serve as a model for the rest of the world. Shaped by public service broadcasting traditions which are rooted in providing social critique, these series provide a rich reservoir of representation of how Norden sees itself. While there is growing interest in Nordic noir, not only within film and television studies, but also across Scandinavian studies, International Relations, and geography, collaborations across these disciplines have been relatively absent. We view this lacuna as an invitation to investigate and interrogate the implicit and explicit geopolitical implications of the series, both within and beyond the region.

In the wake of the highly productive workshop “Nordic Noir, Geopolitics & the North,” hosted by the Media Studies Department within the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University on 4-5 October 2018, Nordicom Review invites proposals for a special issue entitled “Dark Screens: The Geopolitics of Nordic Television Drama.”

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, VOLUME 4 ISSUE 1 (JANUARY, FEBRUARY 2019), THE JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES R&D

Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies. Publish original research projects in various fields of Humanities, Culture, History, Politics, International Relations, Education, Culture, History of Thought, Language and Literature, Economics, anthropology, business studies, communication studies, corporate governance, criminology, cross cultural studies,demography development studies.

The Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies R&D is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal. The main objective of JHCS is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. JHCS aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in humanities, Culture and social science and become the leading journal in humanities and social science in the world. The journal publishes research papers in the fields of humanities and social science such as anthropology, business studies, communication studies, corporate governance, criminology, crosscultural studies, demography, development studies, economics, education, ethics, geography, history, industrial relations, information science, international relations, law, linguistics, library science, media studies, methodology, philosophy, political science, population Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social welfare, linguistics, literature, paralegal, performing arts (music, theatre & dance), religious studies, visual arts, women studies and so on. The journal is published in online versions.