The Media, Film and Communication, in conjunction with other University departments and research networks, is involved in organising and hosting a number of different conferences.
Upcoming Conferences:
Space, Race, Bodies III: Walls
June 30th-July 1st, 2018
University of Otago/ Te Whare Wānanga o Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand/ Ōtepoti, Aotearoa
Previous Conferences:
Analysing Pleasure
Friday 21 April 2017 - Saturday 22 April 2017
Screenwriting Research Network Conference
Monday 28 August - Thursday 31 August 2017
Revisiting Audiences: Reception, Identity, Technology
Thursday, 9 June 2016 - Friday, 10 June 2016
trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity
Wednesday 25 - Friday 27 November 2015
Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) Conference
Queenstown, July 2015
Space, Race, Bodies: Geocorpographies of the City, Nation and Empire
In conjunction with the Postcolonial Studies Reserach Network and Somatechnics Research Network (University of Arizona), 8-10 December 2014
Everyday Life in Contemporary India
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.
Image: 'The End is the Beginning', Renate Eichert
Environments, Spaces and Transformation
Inaugural Media, Film and Communication Early Career - Graduate Conference, 5-6 June 2014
music/media/politics symposium
16 April 2014
Surveillance, Copyright, Privacy: The End of the Open Internet?
Inaugural Digital Humanities Otago Conference, 30 January-1 February 2014
Disaster! Symposium
Postcolonial Research Network, 27-29 November 2013
Centenary of Indian Cinema:Aesthetics, Economics and Politics Conference
New Zealand India Research Institute, 3-4 October 2013
Edward W. Said: Public Intellectual, Cultural Critic, Activist one day symposium
2-3 October 2013