[Commlist] CfP: Critical Studies in Television Conference

  CFP: Critical Studies in Television Biennial Conference


    26-28 August 2020


      Edge Hill University


      Ormskirk, UK

Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? 
What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? 
What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television 
Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within 
our discipline?

This conference will be a space where we can come together to set the 
agenda for television research and education. We therefore invite papers 
from all disciplines that engage with television and want to contribute 
to Television Studies as a field. We are particularly interested in 
papers that offer analyses of the field(s) or methods and ask questions 
about what research Television Studies should conduct and how we want to 
teach the subject. We thus invite papers that engage with any of the 
following or indeed other fields:

  * Television as texts
  * Television industries
  * Television institutions
  * Television histories
  * Television audiences
  * Television as a cultural form
  * Television and convergence
  * Television and identities
  * Television business
  * Television and its relation to the national, local and/or global
  * Methodologies in Television Studies
  * Teaching television
  * Theoretical approaches to television
  * Others
Two round-tables will provide insights into new directions of television 
research and questions of disciplinarity and television research. In 
addition, our keynote will examine television, its relation to 
technology and traditional understandings of the medium.

**

*Confirmed speakers:*

*Hanne Bruun*

*Hanne Bruun *is a Professor of Media Studies at Aarhus University, 
Denmark. She is the founder and head of the Centre for Media Industries 
and Production Studies; the author of four books, including /Dansk 
tv-satire. Underholdning med kant/; and the co-editor of four books. She 
has contributed to several books, e.g. /Advancing Media Production 
Studies /eds. Paterson, C. et al., and journals, e.g. /Nordic Journal of 
Media Studies /(2019), /Critical Studies in Television/, /Nordicom 
Review/, the /European Journal of Communication /and /Media, Culture & 
Society/. Her most recent book is /Re-Scheduling Television in the 
Digital Era/ (2020).

*Kerr Castle*

Kerr completed his PhD recently at the University of Glasgow where he 
investigated the role of television as ‘comfort’ medium. He worked with 
the NHS and has published several blogs on CSTOnline 
<https://cstonline.net/a-week-without-television-by-kerr-castle/>. He 
now works for the QAA Scotland.

**

*Christine Geraghty*

Christine is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of 
Glasgow, UK. Her research spans television and film, and she was part of 
the early researchers looking into soap opera, the experience of which 
she has documented in several publications 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.7227/CST.5.1.9>. Her books include 
/Women and Soap Opera/ (1991) and /Now a Major Motion Picture: Film 
Adaptations of Literature and Drama /(2008). She is currently 
researching race and casting.

*Brett Mills*

Brett Mills is Professor for Film and Television at the University of 
East Anglia, UK. His research has focused on the lesser-researched 
genres of television including /Television Sitcom/ (2008) and /Invisible 
Television/ (2012). More recently, he has focused on /Animals on 
Television/ 
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Animals-Television-Cultural-Making-Non-Human-ebook/dp/B077GCTRTD/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=brett+mills+television&qid=1579018402&sr=8-2> 
(2017)

And a focused PhD Panel

*Abstract Submissions: *

Please submit your abstracts for papers, panels, roundtables, 
screenings, posters etc. to the following address: 
(CSTconference /at/ edgehill.ac.uk) <mailto:(CSTconference /at/ edgehill.ac.uk)>.

Paper proposals (including for visual essays) should include a title, 
your name and affiliation as well as a short biography, and an abstract 
of less than 500 words.

Panels should include an overall abstract, as well as paper abstracts 
and the names, affiliations and biographies of all panellists.

Roundtables should include an overall abstract, as well as the names, 
affiliations and biographies of all contributors.

Screenings should include a title, abstract of the film/ programme as 
well as names, affiliations and biographies of the main contributors.

*Deadline for submission of abstracts is: 28 February 2020.*

Successful applicants will be notified by 27 March 2020.

*Projected Costs: *

We will make several registration fees available, but projected costs 
for the three-day registration are:

Early bird: £195

Early bird concession: £120

Full registration: £245

Full registration concession: £155

On Campus Accommodation including breakfast will be approx. £55/ per night.

For any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 
(CSTconference /at/ edgehill.ac.uk) <mailto:(CSTconference /at/ edgehill.ac.uk)> or 
Elke directly: (weissmae /at/ edghill.ac.uk) <mailto:(weissmae /at/ edghill.ac.uk)>.

The conference is organised by Critical Studies in Television, ECREA 
Television Studies and the Department of Media and Performing Arts, Edge 
Hill University.

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