[Commlist] CFP CST Conference 2024 (online): Television and Sustainability

    Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2024


      Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference


      24 June-5 July 2024 (online)


        Television and Sustainability

In 2015, the UN proposed _17 Sustainable Development Goals 
<https://sdgs.un.org/goals#history>_ that are meant to guide humankind 
towards a more equitable future on a liveable planet. They address 
questions of health, society, culture and the distribution of resources 
while also being aware of the urgency to address climate change. As a 
key communicator of human aspiration, as a tool to educate and inform, 
but also as an industry fraught with inequality and often accused to 
pandering to ‘valuable’ taste communities i.e. those of economic and 
other advantage, television emerges as a key site where our ability to 
respond to those aspirations can be assessed. How does television 
respond to the climate crisis? How does it aim to reduce poverty and 
inequalities by, for example, addressing local working conditions, 
offering traineeships to disadvantaged groups or address issues of 
outsourcing ethically? What steps does the industry take to reduce its 
carbon (and other polluting) footprint? How does it promote peace?

These and many other questions relating to television and the 
Sustainable Development Goals will be at the centre of the slow 
conference, which will be spread out over two weeks. The conference will 
take place online with only a limited number of panels on each day to 
allow delegates from across the globe to catch up and take part.

Considering the urgency of the climate crisis, we want to place a 
particular emphasis on this aspect of the Sustainable Development Goals 
without overlooking the other ones. Thus, we invite papers, screenings, 
roundtables, group debates, panels and any other form of presentation on 
issues relating to television and one of the following: climate change, 
social justice, education, health, economy, partnerships for a better 
future, its location and locale, as well as any other topic within the 
sustainable development goals. Papers could, for example, address:

  * the role of television for educational purposes
  * representations of climate change
  * television’s impact on the climate
  * issues of health and wellbeing in television
  * television as a sector of the economy
  * television and diversity
  * television and wealth inequalities

And many more!

*Please submit your abstract* to the following portal: _Submission 
Portal 
<https://edgehill.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/critical-studies-in-television-conference-2024>_

Abstracts for fully formed panels should include a 100-word panel 
summary as well as abstracts for individual contributions. All other 
abstracts for contributions should be between 350-500 words long. Please 
include the most likely place you will be at during the time of the 
conference as well as an indication which Goal you are responding to.

*Deadline: *19 January 2024.

The Conference is organised by the Television Studies Research Group 
<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/tvresearchgroup/> which brings together 
researchers from Edge Hill University, the University of Salford and the 
University of Manchester. For any questions, please contact Elke 
Weissmann (weissmae /at/ edgehill.ac.uk)


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