Panel L21 “Volatile Cinema and the Lure of Stability” included talks by scholars that are equally film historians and theoreticians. The purpose of their presentations, assembled as they were, was to discuss the nature of cinema as a fluid and mutable concept. Specifically, a common tactic throughout the panel was to look at changes and challenges faced by cinema and the ways in which these might uncover the true nature of film. Ariel Rogers of Northwestern University started

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,

Deadline: September 15th Details Below _________________________________________________________________ London Screen Studies Group The Political Screen University of London, 19-20th June 2015. “Screen media, emerging in industrialized ways in the course of the second industrial revolution, is increasingly ubiquitous. Our access to understanding the world, and the political and economic forces that shape it, has been and is increasingly mediated by screens: from cinema, to

Copied below the break is a call for paper for a graduate conference entitled Screen Textures: Haptics, Tactility, and the Moving Image at the University of Pittsburgh, October 17-18, 2014. The deadline for submission is Thursday May 15, 2014. ___________________________________________________ Screen Textures: Haptics, Tactility, and the Moving Image University of Pittsburgh, October 17-18, 2014 Hosted by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization (FSGSO) Keynote by Eu