[ecrea] Material Cultures of Television Conference, University of Hull

*Material Cultures of Television*
*21st - 22nd March 2016*
*University of Hull*
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*www.hull.ac.uk/tvmateriality*



Dear colleagues,

Booking for the above event is now live. Please find further information
about the conference, booking options, and accommodation on the
conference website here: www.hull.ac.uk/tvmateriality
<https://mail.hull.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=6jxqZ1ngt7W3MGIuhJG60ThtWLW37RM69yUutrUWzUtP1qk0hRbTCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AdwB3AHcALgBoAHUAbABsAC4AYQBjAC4AdQBrAC8AdAB2AG0AYQB0AGUAcgBpAGEAbABpAHQAeQA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hull.ac.uk%2ftvmateriality> 
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on the conference Facebook account here:
www.facebook.com/events/186335695039260/
<http://www.facebook.com/events/186335695039260/>

_Confirmed keynote speakers:_
Professor Anna McCarthy (New York University)
Dr Amy Holdsworth (Glasgow University)

The interest in materiality within television studies has been reflected
through various scholarly perspectives, from work on spaces and set
designs, to heritage and costume, to product-placement and the role of
material objects, popular culture, and merchandise, to the role of the
television set itself as a material object.

However, these discourses on materiality within the context of
television as object and medium have rarely been directly connected to
the field of materiality studies and object-orientated philosophies.
This conference aims to spark debate and explore the interplay between
television, materiality, design, and identity, as well as the
intertextual and intermedial dimensions of television and the
relationships that are formed, through its material cultures, with
audiences and environments.

_Scope_

This conference hopes to bring together papers on material culture and
television and seeks to explore ways in which a focus on materiality can
enhance our understanding of and connection with the medium. The
intention is to provide an insight into how materiality impacts on the
understanding of television today (its meanings and practices), and also
in reverse, the ways in which television materiality contributes to the
production and transformation of material cultures beyond the screen.

Possible topics might include:

  * Contemporary material discourses of television
  * Television as a material object
  * Nostalgia and television’s object reality
  * Television design and material cultures
  * Television history and television’s situatedness between the
    material and the immaterial
  * Television and the digital realm
  * Intermediality and object reality on and of television
  * Cultural history
  * Television as display
  * The (television) museum


The conference will take place at the University of Hull on Monday and
Tuesday, 21st – 22nd March 2016.


*_Tickets_*

Tickets can be purchased from the University of  Hull online store here:
www.hull.ac.uk/tvmateriality


*_Accommodation during the Conference_*

There is a limited amount of university accommodation available. To book
a room in one of the Campus Guest Houses, please contact
(visitorsaccomm /at/ hull.ac.uk)  or ring 01482 466042.

Further information about the Campus Guest
Houses: 
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/hullaccommodation/hullaccommodation/visitorguesthouses.aspx


Alternatively there are several reasonably priced hotels and guest
houses available either near the university or around the Hull train
station.
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_Opposite the university:_

Old Grey Mare
Hotel: http://www.flaminggrillpubs.com/pub/old-grey-mare-hull/m6968/hotel/
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_Around the train station / city centre:_

Mercure
Hotel: 
http://www.mercure.com/gb/hotel-8203-mercure-hull-royal-hotel/index.shtml

Holiday Inn Express (Hull City
Centre): 
http://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/gb/en/kingston-upon-hull/huyuk/hoteldetail



For further information please contact Dr Iris Kleinecke-Bates at
(i.kleinecke-bates /at/ hull.ac.uk).

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