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About CST<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Last Year’s Conference<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Announcement: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Cornell University: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television in Crisis? What subaltern television can teach us about building liberatory futures in this political moment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following conversations around a decolonial reckoning in the field, little attention has been paid to the way that Indigenous Knowledge Systems can be drawn on to build liberatory futures. This keynote presents subaltern and indigenous language media systems as a site to reconstruct, rewrite and reimagine the work of liberation. It draws attention to issues of global concern within the context of television studies such as platform imperialism, language politics, media for social transformation among others. The keynote highlights the work done on traditional and non-traditional television platforms that often fly under the radar due to the field\u2019s hyper focus on Global North media conglomerates. It presents examples of the work that subaltern television is doing to foreground and interrogate issues related to colonialism and imperialism.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wunpini is assistant professor at the Department of Communication and has published on television’s transformation in Ghana and beyond. Her recent book<\/a> tells the history of Ghanaian Television. She also works on diasporic communities and gender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Years Theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This year’s theme pays particular attention to the feeling of crisis<\/strong> that envelops us and television in a myriad of ways. Television, in the UK at least, was shut down during one large crisis of the last century \u2013 namely during the Second World War, and television black outs were sometimes used strategically elsewhere at other moments of crisis. But television is also there to witness in moments of crisis, perhaps most iconically during the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001. And, crucially, television provides us with the opportunities to work through the \u2018structure of feeling\u2019 (Williams, 1973) of crisis that we may experience at any time \u2013 and perhaps particularly pertinently at the moment. Interestingly, this is also a moment of crisis for television itself: as television is re-imagined for online delivery, we are moving away from PSB to PSM, funding structures are questioned and re-conceptualised, institutions are directly under attack by politicians and self-censorship is widespread. And of course we should not forget to mention the downturn in production, affecting confidence in the industries, and the continued loss of (national) mass audiences for all but exceptional television or television events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provisional Programme Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Day\/Time<\/strong><\/td>Monday, 6 July<\/strong><\/td>Tuesday, 7 July<\/strong><\/td>Wednesday, 8 July<\/strong><\/td>Thursday, 9 July<\/strong><\/td>Friday, 10 July<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Morning BST<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td>Institutional Crisis<\/strong> Yuki Watanabe, Dr Mhairi Brennan, and Elizabeth Evans<\/td> <\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td>Crisis beyond the Individual<\/strong> Sarah Lahm, Janet Atinuke Onuh, Lauren Dyll and Sarah Gibson, and Sofia Bull<\/td><\/tr>
Lunchtime (12-2pm BST)<\/strong><\/td>Opening Workshop<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td>Gender and Leadership<\/strong> Anja Louis and Felicity Mendoza, Anne Marit Risum Waade and Paola De Rosa, and Theresa Trimmel<\/td>Crises and Gender in Spanish Streaming Television<\/strong> Fiona Noble, Joanne Britland and Abigail Loxham<\/td>Real World Crisis and TV<\/strong> Melissa Beattie, Shahriar Khonsari, and Ipsita Sahu<\/td><\/tr>
Afternoon<\/strong><\/td>Television, Technology and Change<\/strong> Subin Paul, Benjamin Burroughs, and Victoria Pistivsek<\/td>Political Crisis and TV<\/strong> Greg Cotton, Shahriar Khonsari, and Elke Weissmann<\/td> <\/strong><\/td>Television and Gender<\/strong> Dr Jolene Mairs Dyer, Ben Keightley, Rebecca Pearce, and Helle Kannik Haastrup<\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Day\/Time<\/strong><\/td>Monday, 13 July<\/strong><\/td>Tuesday, 14 July<\/strong><\/td>Wednesday, 15 July<\/strong><\/td>Thursday, 16 July<\/strong><\/td>Friday, 17 July<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Morning BST<\/strong><\/td>Genre, TV and Crisis<\/strong> Alex Symons, Mesut Bostan, and Jelena Krivosic  <\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td>Platformisation as Crisis<\/strong> Pauliina Tuomi, Sofie Vermoesen, and Robert Boucaut<\/td> <\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Lunchtime (12-2pm BST)<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td>Violence and Death on TV<\/strong> Jonas Lindkvist, and Dr. Andi Schwartz  <\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td>   <\/td>Closing workshop<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Afternoon<\/strong><\/td>Changing Societies and TV<\/strong> Min Xu, Olivia Helmholz-Vero, and Sahar Saadat<\/td>Streaming and Seriality<\/strong> Guillermo Echauri, Aris Mousoutzanis, and Valentina Re<\/td>Technological Change and Crisis<\/strong> Augusto Ramos Bozzetti, and Sergio Minniti  <\/strong><\/td>Industry, Change and Society<\/strong> Christina Wilkins, Landry Digeon, and Jennifer Lynn Jones<\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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