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The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) invites proposals for the third annual McGill Queer Research Colloquium (QRC). The QRC is a forum for the scholarly community at McGill and beyond to share research pertaining to LGBTQI2 studies. Past participants have included faculty, visiting and post-doctoral scholars, and graduate and honours students. If you are interested in sharing your work, please submit a short abstract (max 150 words) and biography (

The International Association for Media and Communication Research July 27th-31st 2016, Leicester UK Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2016 Details: _____________________________________________________________________ Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward This year’s conference theme seeks to explore the relationship between memory, commemoration and communication. This theme anticipates the 60th anniversary, in 2017, of IAMCR, which has

Submission Deadline: March 1st McGill University, Montreal QC. April 24th. Details Below ______________________________________________________________ “Silence itself—the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers—is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to the

Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2015 Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia. September 18th. Details Below ___________________________________________________________________________________ Conference Call For Papers The Birth of an Answer: An Exploration of African-American Media Responses – September 18, 2015 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia 2015 marks a unique moment in American media history as the nation reflects upon D.W. Griffith’s release of Birth

Submission Deadline: March 1 Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp) – Campinas, SP. Brazil.  October 20th-23, 2015 Details Below ____________________________________________________________ Call for Papers SOCINE 2015 XIX SOCINE Annual Meeting – Network Cinemas October 20-23, 2015 UNICAMP – Campinas, SP SOCINE (Brazilian Society for Cinema and Audiovisual Studies) announces its call for proposals for the XIX SOCINE 2015 Meeting, which is to be held at Universidade de Campinas (

Submission Deadline January 25th June 11-12th, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Details: _____________________________________________________________ IRCAV, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Studies in French Cinema CONTEMPORARY FRENCH COMEDIES: NEW TRENDS, NEW ISSUES, NEW APPROACHES SFC 15th Anniversary Conference 11-12 June 2015 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Call for Papers To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, Studies in French Cinema will hold its an

submission deadline: March 22nd 2015 Details Below: ______________________________________________________________ “Porn on the Move” Porn Studies Journal Forum Section CFP Pornography is the most transient of all media texts. Attempts to situate pornography within the realm of the private, because of increased internet accessibility coupled with the destruction of many metropolitan porn theaters, fail to recognize the porn text’s insistent ability to seamlessly shift betwee

Submission deadline: December 21, 2014. Brakhage conference Birkbeck 2015 : New Approaches to Stan Brakhage Details Below: __________________________________________________________ New Approaches to Stan Brakhage Saturday 7 March 2015, 9am-6pm Event type: Conference Venue: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London CALL FOR PAPERS This one day conference aims to explore new approaches to the work of experimental film-maker Stan Brakhage. His figure has been mainly assessed

Submission deadline: January 11th, 2015 Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, June 26th-28th 2015. Details Below: __________________________________________________________ check out the website Call for papers: “Screening Animals and the Inhuman” 25th Annual Screen Studies Conference 26-28 June 2015, University of Glasgow, Scotland The theme of the forthcoming Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen and programmed by Screen editor Karen Lury,

Submission Deadline January 9th, 2015 UC Santa Barbara, April 2-3 2015 Details Below: _______________________________________________________________ visit the website “The Media Fields Collective at UC Santa Barbara is excited to announce its fifth biennial conference exploring the intersections of media and space. We propose “encounters” as a framework through which these intricate relationships may be addressed. This term has been strategically deployed to think about exc

Submission Deadline: January 15th Details Below: _____________________________________________________________ Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment On Screen The 11th University of Chicago Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference April 17th and 18th, 2015 Abstracts due January 15th Keynote Speaker: Elena Gorfinkel, Assistant Professor of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, co-editor of Taking Place: Location and the

Submission Dealine: January 9th, 2015 June 22-24 2015, University of Glasgow Details Below: _____________________________________________________________ “CFP: WHAT IS CINEMA HISTORY? A HoMER Network conference presented by the Early Cinema in Scotland research project call for papers University of Glasgow 22-24 June, 2015 Over the last three decades, our understanding of cinema as a historical phenomenon has been subject to a series of ‘turns’ – empirical, spatial, and di

Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2014 Details Below: _____________________________________________________________ “CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / Spiffy Moves (Anthology of Critical Art Writing) Spiffy Moves is a new anthology of critical art writing currently seeking submissions from graduate students at Concordia University. We are in search of short pieces of writing (maximum 1300 words) that showcase innovative and creative writing and research on art and related topics (pop

On October 24th, Dr. Catherine Russel and Dr. Masha Salazkina will lead a grant-writing workshop at 2pm in room FB-411. This workshop is open to all Film Studies graduate students. Be sure to visit the Fellowship & Awards section of Grad/Aperture under the Resources tab for a full list of available internal and external awards, as well as a selection of useful guides to help you through the grant-writing and application process! #2014 #CFP #workshop

Submission Deadline: November 3rd, 2014 New York University, March 12th 2015. Details Below: ______________________________________________________________ Download the PDF “CFP: The 2015 Neil Postman Graduate Conference new feminisms / new materialisms / new media CFP Deadline: Monday November 3, 2014 Conference Date: Thursday March 12, 2015 New York University Keynote: Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness, University of Cal

Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to April 29th, 2015 Details Below: ______________________________________________________________ Download the PDF “Xavier Dolan, Queer Nations, and World Cinema: Locating the Intimate within the Global” “With the Jury Prize acceptance speech given at Cannes 2014 and the major buzz generated by his latest feature Mommy, 25-year-old Québécois director Xavier Dolan brought his cinema to the attention of audiences and critics from all around the w

Submission Deadline: November 15th, 2014 Details Below: _____________________________________________________________________ “This special issue of Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus will explore the various permutations of the term “research-creation” in relation to the work and community linked to the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Media Arts, Design and Digital Culture. The main question for this thematic issue, “What is research-creation?” is not intend

Submission Deadline: November 3rd, 2014 Queen’s University, January 30th and 31st 2015 Details Below: ________________________________________________________________________ “We are pleased to announce that the fourteenth annual Context and Meaning graduate student conference will take place at Queen’s University on Friday, January 30th and Saturday, January 31st, 2015. This year’s theme is “Ideology(ies)” or, the (un)conscious ideas, values and beliefs embodied in society.

Submission Deadline: November 12th, 2014 University of Montreal, Canada March 18th to 20th 2015. Details Below: _______________________________________________________________ “The Centre d’études ethniques des universités montréalaises / Center for Ethnic Studies (CEETUM) is holding its 17th Colloquium for Students and Recent Graduates from March 18th to 20th, 2015 at the University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada). We invite graduate and postgraduate students as well as recent

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2014 University of Regina, February 27-28 2015. Details Below: __________________________________________________________ “PROPAGANDA – CENSORSHIP – SURVEILLANCE FILM STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA 17th ANNUAL GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM FEBRUARY 27-28, 2015 UNIVERSITY OF REGINA Keynote Lecture by Dr. Will Straw, Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGil