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CfP: Music, Sound, and the Moving Image

Music, Sound, and the Moving Image
http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121629/ is the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media – film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et
alia.

CfP: Animation Studies

Following on from the successful annual Society for Animation Studies conference held in
Edinburgh two weeks ago, I would like to announce the latest call for papers for
Animation Studies.

Society for Animation Studies members are invited to submit conference papers from
conferences they participated in, especially SAS conferences past and present in the
growing subject area of animation studies.   Non-members are welcome to submit papers,

Media and sports mega-events

MEDIA AND SPORTS MEGA-EVENTS
The I International Conference on Media and Sport (INCOMES), jointly
organized by the University of Porto and the Universidad Autónoma de
Barcelona aims to address the media construction of mega-sport events
as well as its social, economic and political significance related to
media studies.

The relationship between media and sport has become intermingled over
the last decades and prompted a growing quantity of academic attention
and interest. Indeed, sport and sports mega events, in particular,

CfEssays: Spider-Man, Spider-Women, and Webspinners: Critical Perspectives

Call for Essays:  Spider-Man, Spider-Women, and Webspinners: Critical Perspectives

Edited by Robert G. Weiner and Robert Moses Peaslee

When Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first penned a short story about a young man named Peter
Parker who gets bit by a radioactive spider and becomes the hero known as Spider-Man,
little did they know they would be creating the most popular super-hero in history (next
to Batman).  Like most "happy accidents," the creation of Spider-Man almost did not

CfP: European conference in aesthetics: societies in crisis, Europe and the aesthetic concept.

New date: 20 August 2010
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON AESTHETICS: SOCIETIES IN CRISIS. EUROPE AND THE AESTHETIC CONCEPT.

Organised by: Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Bienes Culturales (General
Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets) of the Ministry of Culture.

In collaboration with: The Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory of the Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid.

CfChapters: Community Radio in the 21st Century

I (Janey) am particularly keen to encourage academics from the newer areas of
community radio globally to make submissions, as well as those who
are established scholars in this area.

Community Radio in the 21st Century

New Book: The Rise of 24-Hour News Television

The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives (Peter Lang) edited by Stephen
Cushion and Justin Lewis is now available (follow link to order)

http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&vSiteID=&vSiteName=BookDetail%2Ecfm&VID=310776&

Book synopsis

CFP Romcom Actually: Conference

Romcom Actually
A Two-Day International Conference on Romantic Comedy in Film and Television
Leicester, UK, 2 - 3 March 2011.
 
Plenary speakers:
Peter Evans (Queen Mary, University of London) Tamar Jeffers McDonald (University of Kent)
 
 
Call for papers
 

Position at the IPMZ in Zurich for German speaking PhD-students

The department  „Media & Politics“ (IPMZ Zurich) offers from 1. Oktober 2010
 
PhD position (50% - 60%)
 

call for survey respondents on PhD topic choice

The University of Siena is conducting an analysis on the perceived criteria followed by social sciences PhD students for the choice of their dissertation topic (research problem). You can fill it out here: www.phdoing.wordpress.com.
For any information you may require feel free to write rossellaborri[at]libero.it, movileanu[at]unisi.it

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