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09 Aug 2023

Laurie J. Ouellette: Fake President: Telemorphosis and the performance of grotesque sovereignty


09 Aug 2023

Kim Toffoletti: Sexy surfers, selfies, and social media – Encounters with Jean Baudrillard, Postfeminism and Post-truth


09 Aug 2023

Performing Ecologies Conference


07 Aug 2023

Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a 'post-truth' era


04 Apr 2023

Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Catherine Fowler


Professor Catherine Fowler delivers her Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) tit...

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16 May 2022

Four generations through Otago's doors


Graduation is a special time and a rite of passage for many. Even more so when a...

31 Mar 2022

The power of none: New book explores childfree perspectives


Ahead of its launch next month, editor Dr Davinia Thornley (Media, Film and Comm...

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10 Feb 2022

The suprising substance behind a selfie


When enrolling for Summer School papers, you might not think to go searching for...

22 Nov 2021

Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022


Twenty-eight University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of...

21 Sep 2021

Contagious Communication: A Historical Perspective


Contagious Communication: A Historical Perspective

17 Aug 2021

Research seminar


Research seminar

10 Aug 2021

Media, Film and Communication Seminar: “Public Understanding of Ignorance as Critical Science Literacy”


Dr Fabien Medvecky of The Centre for Science Communication discusses how, despit...

20 Apr 2021

Why we should tax international aviation seminar with Professor Elisabeth Ellis


Just interaction in a non-ideal world: Why we should tax international aviation...

30 Mar 2021

This Is Not Reality (Ceci n'est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of the People


This Is Not Reality (Ceci n'est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of...

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11 Mar 2021

Second award for Space museum research


Media, Film and Communication Associate Professor Hugh Slotten is looking forwar...

04 Mar 2021

Can't Get You Out Of My Head: Power Politics & the Films of Adam Curtis (A Panel Discussion)


Adam Curtis is one of the pre-eminent documentary film-makers of our time. This...

09 May 2019

The Posthuman as Genre


The Posthuman as Genre

10 Apr 2019

Reparative Aesthetics


SGSC & MFCO seminar, Professor Susan Best, Reparative Aesthetics

16 Mar 2019

Pussy Riot: Art, Protest & Power


pussy riot; screening; art and protest. The eight-member artivist troop of punk...

28 Feb 2019

Foucault and the Politics of Language Today - Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University)


Mark Kelly, Western Sydney University, will speak on “Foucault and the Politics...

15 Oct 2018

Gay Hawkins: Making animals public – the ABC and televisual animality


Gay Hawkins animals media science communication

04 Oct 2018

Panel discussion on 'Frankenstein' and screening of 'Bride of Frankenstein'


Join us for a panel discussion about Mary Shelley's famous novel 'Frankenstein',...

03 Oct 2018

Framing Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and the monster after 200 years


Professor Susan Lederer considers the ways in which the Frankenstein framework h...

14 Sep 2018

Sean Phelan: Friedrich Hayek and the 'social justice warrior'


Sean Phelan neoliberalism Massey University Media Communication Hayek SJW

03 Aug 2018

Mari Ruti: What is the universal - between Lacan and affect


Mari Ruti: What is the universal - between Lacan and affect

02 Aug 2018

Mari Ruti: Queer theory between negativity and flourishing


Mari Ruti: Queer theory between negativity and flourishing

30 Jul 2018

On the Anthropocene


The Anthropocene: A symposium

30 Jun 2018

Space, Race, Bodies III: Walls


Conference

25 May 2018

Gaming, VR & Empathy


Gaming, VR and Empathy

27 Apr 2018

Indigenous social, cultural and political engagements on social media


Indigenous social, cultural and political engagements on social media

23 Apr 2018

The most feminist show on television’?: The Fall, The Female Detective and Contemporary TV Crime Drama


The most feminist show on television’?: The Fall, The Female Detective and Conte...

27 Feb 2018

Between Thriller and Comedy: Divided Belfast in Contemporary Film


Between Thriller and Comedy: Divided Belfast in Contemporary Film

06 Dec 2017

Cultures of Capitalism


Cultures of Capitalism

03 Nov 2017

Will the real racist please stand up?


Will the real racist please stand up?

25 Oct 2017

Screening the stage: Actresses and acting in France from Theatre to Silent Cinema


Screening the stage: Actresses and acting in France from Theatre to Silent Cinem...

20 Oct 2017

The algorithmic subject: The neo-liberal apparatus and the social media technology of power


The algorithmic subject: the neo-liberal apparatus and the social media technolo...

29 Sep 2017

Big Data goes to the movies: Reshaping cinema studies


Big Data Goes to the Movies: reshaping cinema studies

15 Sep 2017

Teenage History, Popular Media and the 'Scrapbook Self'


Teenage History, Popular Media and the 'Scrapbook Self'

25 Aug 2017

White Noise of Desire


White Noise of Desire

14 Aug 2017

OUSA Art Week: Art as a political tool


OUSA Art Week

13 Jul 2017

Flags Die Harder than Men


Flags Die Harder than Men: Remembering the U.S. Civil War in 1960s Television We...

12 Jul 2017

12 July 2017, International screenwriters drawn to Dunedin for conference


Some of the most prolific and central figures of the New Zealand film industry h...

21 Apr 2017

Analysing Pleasure: A Symposium


Analysing Pleasure: A Symposium

31 Mar 2017

“Security, Race, Biopower” Book Launch


“Security, Race, Biopower” Book Launch

24 Mar 2017

Disentangling Race: Re-narrating apartheid sport?


Disentangling Race: Re-narrating apartheid sport?

20 Oct 2016

Nietzschean Killers Meet Feminist Cop: Murder by Numbers and the Storying of Leopold and Loeb


Nietzschean Killers Meet Feminist Cop: Murder by Numbers and the Storying of Leo...

28 Aug 2016

Screenwriting Research Network Conference


Screenwriting Research Network Conference

28 Jun 2016

Alumnus recieves prestigious media research award


Dr David Paterno gains prestigious MEA award for PhD thesis

17 Dec 2015

2015 300 level prize winners


2015 MFCO 300-level Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners

09 Jul 2015

The Pa Boys


From Reality to the Dream

09 Jul 2015

OUSA queer support


OUSA queer support

08 Jul 2015

ANZA conference, Queenstown, July 2015


ANZCA conference, Queenstown, July 2015

02 Jul 2015

Dr Davinia Thornley’s book launch


Dr Davinia Thornley’s book launch

11 Jun 2015

Undergraduate student competition for Strategic Communication


Undergraduate student competition for Strategic Communication

28 May 2015

HoD to chair young writers’ panel


HoD to chair young writers’ panel

07 May 2015

Mobilizing Māori identity: cultural capital and expatriate “portable personhood”


Mobilizing Māori identity: cultural capital and expatriate “portable personhood”

13 Mar 2015

Cinema and Post-Disaster Public Space


Cinema and Post-Disaster Public Space

09 Feb 2015

Paper changes for 2015


new papers

08 Feb 2015

Need help choosing papers?


choosing papers help

18 Dec 2014

MFCO December Graduation Morning Tea


MFCO December Graduation Morning Tea

13 Nov 2014

Essay Competition Awards


Essay Competition Awards

13 Nov 2014

TNZ Screenwriting Dunedin Bid


Screenwriting Research Network

16 Oct 2014

Edward Said: Intellectual Cultural Critic, Activist


Edward Said: Intellectual Cultural Critic, Activist

16 Oct 2014

States of Violence: Geopolitics, Law, Technology


States of Violence: Geopolitics, Law, Technology

10 Jun 2014

Latest staff publications - Holly Randell-Moon


staff publications Holly Randell-Moon

05 Feb 2014

Surveillance, Copyright, Privacy: the End of the Open Internet - 30 January-1 February 2014


surveillance copyright privacy end open internet conference

10 Jan 2014

Environments, Spaces and Transformations


MFCO Early Career-Graduates host inaugural conference, 5-6 June 2014, Environmen...

06 Dec 2013

Cultures of Capitalism


Cultures of Capitalism

01 Nov 2013

Environments, Spaces and Transformations


environments, spaces and transformations

01 Nov 2013

Dissertation hand in 2013


MFCO490, dissertation, submission

01 Nov 2013

Special Olympics NZ National Games - MFCO Interns


Special Olympics, Internships

01 Nov 2013

2014 BAFTSS award to Associate Professor Catherine Fowler


BAFTSS prize

01 Nov 2013

2013 Essay Competition Winners


2013 MFCO 300-level Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners

01 Nov 2013

2015 papers


2015 papers

01 Nov 2013

Indian Cinema Conference


Indian Cinema Conference 2013

08 Oct 2013

MFCO student is a winner in phone video competition


MFCO student wins video competition

27 Sep 2013

MFCO 219 Broadcast and News Media


MFCO 219 Broadcast and News Media

27 Sep 2013

MFCO 113. Screen Production: Light, Sound, Motion


MFCO 113 Screen Production: Light, Sound, Motion. Summer School at MFCO will be...

27 Sep 2013

MFCO High Schools Open Day


MFCO High Schools Open Day

10 Aug 2011

10 August 2011 Media Release


05 Jul 2011

5 July 2011 Media Release


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