Monday 26th June – Friday 30th June 2023: The Disney, Culture and Society’s First Annual Conference celebrating 1 year of DisNet! Monday 26th June – Friday 30th June 2023 An international, multi-billion dollar media conglomerate, the Walt Disney Company has been in our lives since 1923.
The 8th annual BAFTSS conference, to be held at the University of St Andrews on 16-18 April 2020, will take as its theme “Rethinking Screen Cultures”. At a time when Film, Screen and TV Studies is placing increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh objects beyond the traditional canon, this conference seeks to foreground new directions and methodologies in the discipline.
Birmingham City University is pleased to announce Jazz on the Telly , a conference to be held on 12 October 2019. This event will mark the conclusion of the AHRC-funded project, Jazz on BBC-TV 1960-1969 , part of an ECR Research Leadership Fellowship awarded to Dr Nicolas Pillai.
Running from 4 – 25 February at BFI Southbank, FORGOTTEN BLACK DRAMA ON TV will be a season of ground- breaking black British television dramas.
Acting in British Television & Exploring Television Acting Book Launch: June 30th, 18.00 – 20.30 Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street Dr Christopher Hogg (University of Westminster) and Dr Tom Cantrell (University of York) will launch two new publications on television acting, Acting in British Television & Exploring Television Acting.
Media Mutations, the international conference of studies on audiovisual media hosted by Dipartimento delle Arti of Università di Bologna, comes to its tenth edition.
Pioneering ex-BBC television crews responsible for bringing colour into our homes in the late 1960s will bring TV history to life in the foyer of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford later this month (November 23-24). ADAPT LIVE, part of the Being Human festival, will reunite veteran TV crews to demonstrate the skills that brought us some of Britain’s earliest colour TV shows.
‘Winter is coming’, ‘Valar Morghulis’ and ‘You know nothing Jon Snow’ are widely-known expressions attesting to the global visibility of Game of Thrones ; each expression offering a reminder of the power of television to resonate through casual forms of oral culture.
At most screen and media studies conferences television scholarship is too often relegated to a single session or superficially dealt with as a contributory example when discussing broader industrial developments. However, the University of Westminster’s recent TRANS-TV conference focused solely on the specific and yet expansive notion of “transformations” in television.
Date: 19-21 February 2018 Location: Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London, UK The conference is organized by the ERC funded research group BodyCapital , and hosted by Wellcome Collection . Throughout the age of television health and body-related subjects have been presented and diffused into the public sphere via a multitude of forms, ranging from short films in health education programmes to school television, from professional
