From October 1, 2019 until December 31, 2019, the Society for Animation Studies is accepting electronic submission of articles dedicated to the scholarly study of animation history and theory published from 2017 to 2019 for the McLaren-Lambart Award to be announced June 2020. Work must be self-submitted by the author (not the publisher), and the author must have active membership in the Society f...
McLaren-Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation – 2019 Call for Entries
The Society for Animation Studies announces a call for entries for the 2019 McLaren-Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation. Entries must be a book – both monographs and edited collections are accepted – published in 2017 or 2018 that contributes to the field of animation studies. An author must be a current member of the SAS, and authors must nominate themselves and arrange f...
Emru Townsend Award 2019
Society for Animation Studies members may now apply for grant awards (equivalent to approximately US$300) for those presenting at this year's annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal. All applicants should send an email to Peter Chanthanakone at peter-chanthanakone@uiowa.edu (headline: SAS AWARD 2019) that includes: -your short-version paper abstract that you submitted fo...
Interdisciplinary symposium at St Mary’s University: Beasts of the Sky: Strange Sightings in the Stratosphere
Taking place in the drawing room of Horace Walpole’s Gothic mansion in Strawberry Hill, this symposium will discuss the sky as space, as well as the creatures associated with it, whether monstrous or mundane, in popular culture. The sky is a privileged locale in popular genres, from science fiction, horror and dystopian film; in animation as well as live action; to natural history programming on...