[ecrea] On TV: Children and Television announcement

On TV: Children and Television Conference

14-15 November 2014

The Showroom Cinema, Sheffield



On TV is a space to celebrate and explore all things television. This 
year, the inaugural festival tunes into the characters, catchphrases and 
colour of children’s television. A range of academics and industry 
speakers are contributing to the academic strand, speaking on shows from 
Doctor Who, My Little Pony, Newsround, Horrible Histories and more and 
debating topics from transmedia and branding, to children’s TV culture, 
to the changing nature of public service broadcasting. The festival will 
begin on Friday evening and continue all day on Saturday.



Keynote speakers:

·         Prof Maire Messenger Davies, author of Children, Media and 
Culture, Dear BBC and many studies of children and television

·         Anna Home, one of the developers of Jackanory, commissioner of 
Grange Hill and Teletubbies



Other confirmed speakers:

Helen Wheatley, University of Warwick

Alison Pierse, Northumbria University and Debbie Moon, creator and 
writer of CBBC’s Wolfblood

Elizabeth Evans, University of Nottingham

Clare Burdfield, University of Nottingham



See http://www.culttvonline.com/workshop-events/ for more information. 
Programme and registration opening soon.



Conference co-organisers: Lorna Jowett, Michael Starr and Matthew Pateman

Contact: (lorna.jowett /at/ northampton.ac.uk)







Dr Lorna Jowett

Reader in Television Studies

University of Northampton

Avenue Campus

St George's Avenue

Northampton

NN2 6JD

01604 893294



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