Society for Animation Studies members will get a 20$ discount when attending this year's Ottawa International Animation Festival. The festival and the Television Animation Conference will take place from September 17th to 21st, 2008. For more information, please visit http://ottawa.awn.com/index.php

Frank Grimshaw has interviewed the Society for Animation Studies' president, Dr. Maureen Furniss, during this year's annual conference, Animation Unlimited.     Original posting: http://www.imagineanimation.net/?q=node/7943

I am preparing the 2008 issue of Animation Journal, which will be published in October. To fill out the issue, I'm looking for book/DVD reviews, discussions of production practices/work in progress with an animation studies perspective, research or teaching methods related discussions or aids, or other short pieces. These are non-refereed items, generally ten manuscript pages (2500 words) and unde...

Global Media Journal, edited by the School of Journalism and Communication,Tsinghua University(China), both in print and online versions, is now calling submission of academic papers related to global media, culture and communication. Special issues in 2009 will cover the topics on "media criticism", "media economics", "new media and society" and "corporate communication". Prior concerns will be g...