[Commlist] Screening Intimacies: Television and the Politics of Care Symposium

We are delighted to announce the following in person symposium which is 
free and open to all those who are interested (registration required):

*Screening Intimacies: Television and the Politics of Care*

Time and date: May 19, 2023, 11am-5pm

Location: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus – LAB 006, LAB 002, 
LAB Broad St Foyer, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT

Eventbrite link: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-intimacies-television-and-the-politics-of-care-tickets-570528023677 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-intimacies-television-and-the-politics-of-care-tickets-570528023677>

This symposium explores the staging of intimacy on and off-screen in the 
wake of #MeToo. For the past two years, as part of a British Academy 
funded study into intimacy coordination in the UK, Professor Tanya 
Horeck (ARU) and Dr Susan Berridge (University of Stirling) have 
interviewed intimacy coordinators and those they collaborate with, to 
investigate how the profession of intimacy coordination is influencing 
television production cultures and helping to engender new ways of 
depicting sex, intimacy, and consent. In this symposium Horeck and 
Berridge will discuss the project’s findings with a particular focus on 
how notions of intimacy are being expanded and redefined. Themes of 
consent, community, gender, sex education, and activism will be 
discussed as we consider what is at stake in the attempt to restructure 
television cultures according to an ethos of care and collaboration.

Professor Helen Wheatley will present on research from her forthcoming 
book on TV Death, ‘Television Auto/Pathographies: Caring for the 
documentary subject before, during and after death’ and Professor Helen 
Wood will present on the outline for new AHRC funded research (with Dr 
Jilly Boyce Kay and Dr Jack Newsinger) on Reality Television, Working 
Practices and Duties of Care: ‘From ‘duties’ of care to caring practices 
of production: a framework for the analysis of the labour processes of 
unscripted TV’. **

These academic talks will be followed by a panel discussion with 
intimacy coordinators, Adelaide Waldrop, Robbie Taylor Hunt, and Pia 
Rickman.


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