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CFP: Cine Excess XI (Birmingham City University)

Updated Call for Papers The 11th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions Birmingham City University Presents: Cine Excess XI Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd Birmingham City University (and related screening venues) 9th-11th November 2017 www.cine-excess.co.uk Keynote: Professor Mark Jancovich (UEA) Over the last 11 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers for an event comprising a themed academic conference with plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and UK theatrical premieres of up and coming film releases. Previous guests of honour attending Cine-Excess have included Catherine Breillat (Romance, Sex is Comedy), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers), Roger Corman (The Masque of the Red Death, The Wild Angels), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, King of the Ants), Brian Yuzna (Society, The Dentist), Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria), Joe Dante (The Howling, […]

War of the Worlds: Transnational Fears of Invasion and Conflict, 1870-1933 (Lancaster University)

One-day international workshop organised by the Invasion Network at Lancaster University, 8th September 2017. Key-note speaker: Professor Emeritus David Glover Confirmed speakers include: Michael Hughes, Michael Matin and Antony Taylor Hosted by the Department of History, Lancaster University and supported by the Irish Research Council, ‘War of the Worlds: Transnational Fears of Invasion and Conflict 1870-1933’ seeks to consider the fear of invasion as a global phenomenon in the period between the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) and the rise of the German Third Reich, including any region in which the fear became a notable social phenomenon and/or how fears of invasion and future conflict expressed in different nations and regions informed each other.