News archive from Media, Film and Communication
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...
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...
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...
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