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Media, Film and Communication hosts many research events:

  • Can't get you out of my head: Power, politics and the films of Adam Curtis
  • Zoom discussion, 4 March 2021
    Speakers: Isabel Millar (Kingston University), Daniel Tutt (Jouissance vampires podcast), Brett Nicholls (University of Otago), Rosie Overell (University of Otago)
    See recording: Can't get you out of my head: Power, politics and the films of Adam Curtis

  • On the Anthropocene: A symposium
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 30 July 2018
    The symposium considers how media and art contribute to our understanding and imagining of the earth and its species, how important the role of indigenous and other marginalised forms of knowledge might be, and how technical solutions to the problem of the Anthropocene are framed and validated.
    Keynote speaker: Chris Russill (Carleton University) Welcome to the mediocene: Some reflections on the relationship of media theory and planetary crisis
    Speakers: Madison Kelly (Dunedin School of Art), Bridie Lonie (University of Otago), Brett Nicholls (University of Otago)
  • Space, race, bodies III: Walls
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 30 June-1 July 2018
  • Mediating the real 2: Mediations in a 'post-truth' era
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 22-24 November 2017
    With keynotes: Kim Toffoletti (Deakin University), Laurie J. Ouellette (University of Minnesota)
    See edited book: Post-Truth and the mediation of reality: New conjunctures
  • Screenwriting research network conference
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 28-31 August 2017
    See edited book: True event adaptation: Scripting real lives
  • Analysing pleasure
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 21-22 April 2017
  • New research on horror
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 16-18 November 2016
    With keynotes: Kevin Heffernan, Angela Nadalianas
  • Mediating the real
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 31 August-2 September
    With keynotes: Allen Meek (Massey University), Misha Kavka (University of Auckland)
    See journal special issue: Medianz, 16(2), 2016
  • Revisiting audiences: Reception, identity, technology
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 9 June-10 June 2016
  • trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 25-27 November 2015
    See edited book: Orienting feminism: Media, activism and cultural representation
  • Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) Conference
  • Queenstown, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, July 2015
  • Space, race, bodies: Geocorpographies of the city, nation and empire
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 8-10 December 2014
    In conjunction with the Postcolonial Studies Reserach Network and Somatechnics Research Network (University of Arizona)
    See edited book: Security, race, biopower: Essays on technology and corporeality
  • Everyday life in contemporary India
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 17-18 December 2014
    Jointly organised by the Department of Journalism & Communication, University of Madras, India, the Department of Media, Film & Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand, & New Zealand India Research Institute.
  • Environments, spaces and transformation
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 5-6 June 2014
    Inaugural Media, Film and Communication Early Career - Graduate Conference
  • music/media/politics symposium
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 16 April 2014
  • Surveillance, copyright, privacy: The end of the open internet?
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 30 January-1 February 2014
    Inaugural Digital Humanities Otago Conference
    With keynotes: Nicky Hager (New Zealand investigative journalist), Graham Murdock (Loughborough University), Vikram Kumar (CEO of Mega Ltd.)
  • Disaster! Symposium
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 27-29 November 2013
    Postcolonial Research Network Conference
    With keynotes: Rob Nixon (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Steve Matthewman (University of Auckland), Anne McClintock (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Centenary of Indian cinema: Aesthetics, economics and politics conference
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 3-4 October 2013
    New Zealand India Research Institute
  • Edward W. Said: Public intellectual, cultural critic, activist. A one day symposium
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 2-3 October 2013
    See journal special issue: Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, 10(1), 2014
  • Intermediations: A one day symposium
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 31 May 2013
    With keynotes: Angela Ndalianis (University of Melbourne), Kirsten Moana Thompson (Victoria University of Wellington)
    See journal special issue: Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, 24, 2014.
  • The Asian century: Encounters and exchanges
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 1 May 2013
    Roundtable discussion - Asian migrations research theme, with:
    Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore), and Paola Voci, Gautam Ghosh, Benjamin Schonthal, Brett Nicholls, Vijay Devadas (University of Otago)
  • Citizenship in an era of global crisis
  • Postcolonial studies network conference
    Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 28-30 November 2011
    With keynotes: Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University), Tracey McIntosh (University of Auckland), Greg Noble (University of Western Sydney)
    Including the New Zealand premier screening of Marx reloaded, and Q&A with director Jason Barker
  • Screen cultures conference
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 3-4 June 2011
    With keynote Francesco Casetti (Yale University)
  • Foucault symposium
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, June 2009
    A symposium on Michel Foucault's thought and its impact 25 years after his death. Speakers:
    Brendon Hokowhitu (Te Tumu) Foucault and indigenous studies
    Douglas Hill (Geography) Foucault, geography, India
    Geoff Craig (Politics) Foucault and media
    Rebecca Stringer (Gender studies) Foucault and the prison information group
    Chris Prentice (English) Forget Foucault?
    Brett Nicholls (Media, Film, and Communication) The Italian Foucault
  • Remapping cinema, remaking history
  • Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 27-30 November 2008
    The XIVth biennial conference of the film and history association of Australia and New Zealand

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