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The french-german service agency ABG-DFH addresses with her "European fair for research and career - RESEARCH" on May 28th PhD-students and Post-Doctoral researchers.Apart from conferences and discussions young scholars can take advice for careers, talk to consultants from the service center about CV's and meet representatives from the big european universities and research centers. For more information please check the website:
http://www.researchcareerfair.com/jsp/core/PlageHome.jsp
http://www.dfh-ufa.org/uploads/media/Programme_ABG-UFA_Research_28mai2009_02.pdf

IADIS International Conference  
Visual Communication 2009: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture

Screen Studies Conference 2009
3-5 July 2009University of Glasgow, Scotland
 
Screen Theorizing Today
 
The 19th International Screen Studies Conference will be an extra special occasion, marking the journal’s 50th anniversary and following the publication of a bumper special Anniversary issue (volume 50, number 1, Spring 2009) exploring a range of aspects of contemporary screen theorizing. The conference will take up this theme in both plenary sessions and key strands of conference papers.
 

Of interest to young scholars within the field of international news and global communication: News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment by Daya Thussu is now available in paperback edition. The book features the first book-length study of this phenomemon in a global context. For more information, click here.

Two major german institutions the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the GTZ ask for contributions for a book projekt on Migration between Afrika and German and the cultural, social and economic capital of african migrants.
See attached file

FilmSight: Online Journal for Postgraduate Film Research

Submission Deadline: end of May 2009

Submissions are welcome from current PG researchers for the launch of FILMSIGHT in Summer 2009. Submissions can be on any film-related subject, and should be between 5000-8000 words.

The Association for Studies in French Cinema
Annual Conference (2009)
 
SCREEN SOUNDS
 
King's College London
Tuesday, 14th April 2009
 
Programme and more info on:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/conference.htm

NECS 2009 The Lund Conference "Locating Media"
 
Lund, Sweden, June 25-28, 2009
in cooperation with Film Studies / Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University
 
Please find a first and preliminary version of the programme, as well as more info, on:
http://www.necs-initiative.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond the Politics of Identity
 
Extended Deadline: 15th April
£200 travel bursaries available
 
A one day postgraduate conference hosted by the Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen on 20th June 2009.
More on: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/film/events/conferences/identity
 

1- International conference "Journalism Research in the Public Interest" (Zürich, Winterthur, 19-21 Nov 2009). ;

2- "Living Cultures - Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture" (Leeds, March 30-31 2009). ;

3- "The Future of Journalism" (Cardiff, Sept. 9-10 2009).

4- "Journalism in Crisis" (Westminster, May 19-20 May 2009).

University of Westminster

Upcoming Symposia

1- Journal of Media Practice Symposium
(Sussex, 13 July 2009)