Media, Film and Communication hosts many research events:
- 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
- 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
- Screenwriting research network conference Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 28-31 August 2017
- Analysing pleasure Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 21-22 April 2017
- New research on horror Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 16-18 November 2016
- Mediating the real Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 31 August-2 September
- 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
- 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
- Everyday life in contemporary India Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 17-18 December 2014
- Environments, spaces and transformation Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 5-6 June 2014
- 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
- Disaster! Symposium Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 27-29 November 2013
- Centenary of Indian cinema: Aesthetics, economics and politics conference Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 3-4 October 2013
- Edward W. Said: Public intellectual, cultural critic, activist. A one day symposium Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 2-3 October 2013
- Intermediations: A one day symposium Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 31 May 2013
- The Asian century: Encounters and exchanges Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 1 May 2013
- Citizenship in an era of global crisis Postcolonial studies network conference
- Screen cultures conference Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 3-4 June 2011
- Foucault symposium Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, June 2009
- Remapping cinema, remaking history Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, 27-30 November 2008
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
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)
With keynotes: Kim Toffoletti (Deakin University), Laurie J. Ouellette (University of Minnesota)
See edited book: Post-Truth and the mediation of reality: New conjunctures
See edited book: True event adaptation: Scripting real lives
With keynotes: Kevin Heffernan, Angela Nadalianas
With keynotes: Allen Meek (Massey University), Misha Kavka (University of Auckland)
See journal special issue: Medianz, 16(2), 2016
See edited book: Orienting feminism: Media, activism and cultural representation
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
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.
Inaugural Media, Film and Communication Early Career - Graduate Conference
Inaugural Digital Humanities Otago Conference
With keynotes: Nicky Hager (New Zealand investigative journalist), Graham Murdock (Loughborough University), Vikram Kumar (CEO of Mega Ltd.)
Postcolonial Research Network Conference
With keynotes: Rob Nixon (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Steve Matthewman (University of Auckland), Anne McClintock (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
New Zealand India Research Institute
See journal special issue: Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, 10(1), 2014
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.
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)
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
With keynote Francesco Casetti (Yale University)
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
The XIVth biennial conference of the film and history association of Australia and New Zealand
