*CFP* "THE BONDIAN COLD WAR: THE TRANSNATIONAL LEGACIES OF A COLD WAR ICON", CONFERENCE

James Bond (007) is a global brand: since his ‘birth’ in 1953 he’s evolved into a popular cultural icon. Irrespective of the occasional reports of his demise since the end of the Cold War the Bond franchise surges on with new films and continuation novels. While Bond appears to be a quintessentially British creation, his Cold War adventures unfolded across a global stage and the associated books, comics, films and subsequent videogames have established a genuinely transnational legacy.

Bond’s influence was not, and is not merely confined to the ‘West’. The rise of ‘Bondmania’ in the 1960s produced a Bondian narrative which exerted an influence across both the Iron and Bamboo Curtains, triggering an explosion of enthusiasm for espionage as a subject in popular culture. The Cold War has increasingly been projected into popular memory through the prism of spy fiction. But since 1989 the Bondian vision of the Cold War has crossed old ideological boundaries, blurring trans-Bloc perspectives and establishing new legacies.

*CFP* "THE PUNK READER: TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL", EDITED BOOK, PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK

Following the groundbreaking publication of The Punk Reader: Transmissions from the Local to the Global (now in its second edition through Intellect and the Punk Scholars Network), the series editors would like to invite proposals for a second volume in the book series, ‘Global Punk’, to be published in early 2020.

The publication will be part of an exciting collaboration between Intellect and the Punk Scholars Network, a partnership that has seen the development of a Punk Scholars Network imprint.

The ‘Global Punk’ series editors – Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair Gordon and Paula Guerra – are seeking contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas, including cultural studies, musicology, ethnography, art and design, history and the social sciences, for an edited volume on post-2000 global punk ‘scenes’, reflecting upon the notion of origin, music(s), identity, membership and circulation.

*CFP* "CROWDED OUT OR LIMITLESS HORIZONS? MINORITY LANGUAGE - MEDIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

This international conference is co-organised by the Basque Institute Etxepare and the University of Edinburgh.

Its aims are to exchange knowledge and promote collaboration between academics and professionals working on minority-language media.

The conference will be in English.

About the conference

In the early 1980s, the establishment of Catalan, Basque and Welsh TV channels motivated several European scholars to investigate key concepts concerning minority language media and undertake important case studies. In 1992, the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages emphasised that public authorities have important responsibilities in this field.

*CFP* “FLOW AND ARCHIVE”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FIM AND MEDIA ARTS (IJFMA), SPECIAL ISSUE

The digital turn has allowed television to be reimagined after the networked computers. Following the telephone and radio, the new paradigm inspiring the future of television are the networked computers, their social networks and the participatory visual culture established on the aftermath of the twentieth century cultural industries. 

After the liveness and flow, definitional components of television, we are currently offered with DVR-mediated television experiences and collections of short videos which can be uploaded, viewed and shared by the viewer. By becoming searchable and accessible online, television provides a similar experience to the archives and to the video aggregators that entertain the new generations of cellphone viewers. The discussion about the future of television not only makes it worth thinking about its past, the cultural value of its equipments and its most resilient genres, but is certainly an opportunity to analyse how TV journalism is challenged by social networks, and how its public service can be revalued.

*CFP* "GAMES, MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION: QUO VADIS?", ECREA DIGITAL GAMES RESEARCH SECTION SYMPOSIUM

Games, Media and Communication: Quo Vadis?

ECREA Digital Games Research Section symposium

7-8.11.2019, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

The 2010s is almost over, and game studies is preparing to enter another decade. The current decade has seen discussions on ludification and e-sports as well as the true breakthrough of terms such as gamification, signifying the pervasive and ubiquitous nature of games and play in contemporary societies. This symposium hosted by the ECREA Digital Games Research Section aims to look at where we have been and where we are going as a field - what could be the next steps? Where could we go from here, and what is going to happen to game studies in the 2020s? How does the multi-disciplinary field of game studies relate to the similarly multi-disciplinary field of communication studies? What kind of innovations are waiting around the corner when it comes to novel research methods or theorizing? What kind of phenomena are only beginning to receive attention, where are the remaining gaps in research?

*CFP* “VOICES OF THE VOICELESS: NEW CHALLENGES OF MOBILIZATION AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - UNDERSTANDING TRANSITION VII, UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Voices of the voiceless: New challenges of mobilization and citizen engagement

International conference - Understading Transition VII

Bucharest, Romania

September, 11-12

The Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies (University of Bucharest, Romania), the Association of Trainers in Journalismand Communication (AFCOM) and the Lumière University Lyon 2 (France) organise the 7th edition of the international conference Understading Transition. 

Presentations based on empirical research and on sound theoretical approaches are invited on topics such as:

*CFP* “THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON A RADIO CENTENARY”, CONFERENCE, HILVERSUM

The international perspective on a radio centenary

7-8 November 2019

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Hilversum, the Netherlands

Confirmed keynote speakers include Prof. Kate Lacey and Prof. Michele Hilmes.

On 6 November 2019 the Netherlands will celebrate 100 years of radio. This date sees the 100th anniversary of the first transmission of a previously publicized radio broadcast, the first in a series by the radio station founded by inventor Hanso Idzerda. It marked the beginning of the extraordinary large number of broadcasting activities as we know them today. Radio has been tremendously significant for society and culture in the last century, and it is predicted that it will continue to play a major role albeit in a constantly changing context. Indeed, radio has survived and thrived in the last 100 years by continuously adapting to changing social, cultural and technological circumstances.