The Department of Media Arts has a thriving, inclusive and interdisciplinary research culture
We host public lectures, conferences, masterclasses with film directors, producers and digital artists. Several of our events have been organised in collaboration with the Humanities and Arts Research Institute at Royal Holloway and with the National Film Theatre. Our regular events include Series on Immersive and Screenwriting Seminars, departmental Research Lectures.
Since 2014, we have hosted more than ten conferences and several research symposia, including:
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Celebrity Studies Conference (2014)
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Television Drama: The Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected (2015)
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Digital Subjects (2016)
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Hands On History. Exploring New Methodologies for Media History Research (2016)
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“Research and Archival Policy” (2017)
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Exoticism in Contemporary Transnational Cinema: Music and Spectacle (2017)
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40 Years of Grange Hill (2018)
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A Day with Rosi Braidotti (2019)
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Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference, Seeing Differently (2019)
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Several seasons of curated public screenings of Forgotten TV Drama at the National Film Theatre (2017)
