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Symposium – Re-imaging Regional Television Drama: Women as Agents of Cultural Change
Published: 5 September 2014Re-imaging Regional Television Drama: Women as Agents of Cultural Change 11 September 2014 Edge Hill University www.edgehill.ac.uk/media/research/re-imaging-regional-television-drama-women-agents-cultural-change/ In recent years, female writers, producers and directors have emerged as central innovators of television fictions. Dramas and dramadocs by Kay Mellor, Sally Wainwright and Heidi Thomas belong to some of the most-watched programmes on British screens, and […]
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Conference: Widening the Lens
Published: 18 August 2014Widening the Lens: Developments in Research on Journalism and Environmental Issues 17 September 2014 Bankfield House, University of Leicester www2.le.ac.uk/conference/widening Academic concern with the mediation of climate change has dominated discussions about the reporting of environmental issues recently. Responding to this trend, this event seeks to widen the research lens to discuss other ongoing work […]
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Conference – Becoming Scotland: Screen Cultures in a Small Nation
Published: 13 August 2014Becoming Scotland: Screen Cultures in a Small Nation 28-29 August 2014 Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh www.qmu.ac.uk/whats-on/becoming-scotland.htm Questions about Scotland and Scottish-ness seem especially urgent in the lead in to the Independence Referendum on 18 September 2014. Queen Margaret University’s Becoming Scotland conference will explore film and television production in Scotland across fiction and non-fiction genres, […]
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CFP: Screen Plays Conference 2015
Published: 10 June 2014Theatre and Television: Adaptation, Production, Performance A call for papers for a one-day conference at the University of Westminster, Friday 20 February 2015 Proposals should be submitted by Monday 30 June 2014. Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers (or three-paper panels) addressing issues and topics related to theatre plays on British television from 1930 to […]
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Media Piracy: the politics and practices of borrowing
Published: 4 June 2014Media Piracy: the politics and practices of borrowing Tuesday 17 June 2014 Queen Mary University of London Venue: Hitchcock Cinema A one-day symposium hosted by the AHRC Network project ‘Bazaar Cinema: Re-purposing Media and debating cultural rights of Youth Communities in London and Mumbai’ Keynotes: Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum) Dr Anne Barron (London School […]
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Archaeologies of Media and Film conference
Published: 4 June 2014Archaeologies of Media and Film 3-5 September 2014 University of Bradford and the National Media Museum The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, archivists, curators and artists working in the field that has become known as “media archaeology”: an approach that examines or reconsiders historical media in order to illuminate, disrupt and […]
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Cosmographies Conference – 24 to 25 July 2014
Published: 29 May 2014Cosmographies Conference 24-25th July 2014 Falmouth University, Penryn Campus http://cosmographies.co.uk/ The Cosmographies Conference will bring together scholars from the arts, humanities and space studies, to explore representations of ‘outer space’ in textual and visual culture. Keynote speakers include Professor Chris Welch (International Space University) and Professor Philip Gross author of Deep Field (University of South […]
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Preservathon: 25 to 26 June 2014
Published: 27 May 2014Preservathon: Audiovisual Preservation Storage Solutions 25 to 26 June 2014 Turin, Italy Rai Museo della Radio www.prestocentre.org/events/preservathon/storage-2014 The PrestoCentre Preservathons are two-day hands-on events developed around main themes and challenges in audiovisual digitisation, preservation and long-term access. During the first day, attendees will work together in small groups. Activities include workshops, roleplaying, demonstrations, presentations, writing […]
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Shakespeare and Bollywood conference
Published: 27 May 2014Shakespeare and Bollywood 27 June 2014 Senate House, Malet Street, London To mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, Royal Holloway and the Shakespeare Institute will host a one-day graduate conference on Shakespeare in Bollywood on 27 June 2014 with the renowned critic Dr.Poonam Trivedi of Delhi University as keynote speaker. With speakers from India, […]
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Chinese Visual Festival 2014
Published: 28 April 20147 – 18 May 2014 Screening at King’s College London / BFI Southbank / Riverside Studios Now in its fourth year, CVF has significantly expanded to include the very best in Chinese language independent fiction as well as documentary, art and experimental cinema. The 40+ films screened this year cover a wide range of contemporary […]
