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Critical Studies in Television Conference<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming events<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seminar Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are introducing a series of online lunchtime seminars on all things television and beyond. Please join us for these short presentations, then met by your questions and answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical Studies in Television Conference 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Television and Crisis<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

6-17 July 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online only<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything feels a little out of place at the moment. The conference engages with the feeling of crisis, by examining how television might respond to crises, represent crises, be in crises, etc. The conference will completely run online over two weeks, with sessions spread out to schedule them around your other commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CST and Television Studies<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Television and Sustainability<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Critical Awards in Television (CATs) 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Critical Awards in Television are meant to disrupt the value systems we use to judge television. Television fulfils many important functions in our lives as audiences, but it also requires a significant amount of different creative skillsets which are often overlooked by traditional awards. We want to celebrate television for its diversity and its many different skillsets by drawing on debates had by the public, the academy and the industry about what is valuable about television. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Awards Ceremony will take place at Edge Hill University in April 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical Studies in Television Conference,<\/strong>
5-7 July 2023 (blended)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Behind the Scenes and Screens: People and Power in Television was the theme of the 2023 conference which took place at Edge Hill University. To find out more and watch the recordings of the sessions, please see here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference,<\/strong>
27 June-15 July 2022 (online)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Television has been widely theorised in relation to the everyday, the habitual and the repetitive. But there are a lot of phenomena that are surprising, and that require TV scholars to provide nuance to these observations. Take Squid Game<\/em> (Netflix, 2021) which was supposedly<\/a> the streaming hit of the year 2021 in the UK and elsewhere. But as an example of a Korean TV drama, it is highly unusual. Similarly, when we asked British audiences what programme gave them the most comfort during Covid, Grayson\u2019s Art Club<\/em> (Channel 4, 2020), a small, participatory and community-focused programme was voted winner of the Critical Awards in Television, instead of any of the expensive dramas that television critics spent so much time reviewing and writing about. There are stories to be told that need telling and that we don\u2019t hear enough about  because while television is complex and mutable, discussion of it remains entrapped with longstanding cultural hierarchies. On the other side of the spectrum is a subject area that still worries about its legitimacy and hence continues to produce more publications on high-end productions such as Game of Thrones<\/em> (HBO, 2011-2-19) over those that, in the daily lives of audiences, might actually play a more important role, such as the different versions of Strictly Come Dancing <\/em>(BBC, since 2004), including Dancing with the Stars<\/em> (ABC, 2005). Thus, we want to put a particular focus this year at the Critical Studies in Television Conference at the outliers of television (studies). This includes, but is not restricted to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n