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09 Aug 2023
Laurie J. Ouellette: Fake President: Telemorphosis and the performance of grotesque sovereignty
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04 Apr 2023
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Catherine Fowler
Professor Catherine Fowler delivers her Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) tit...
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16 May 2022
Four generations through Otago's doors
Graduation is a special time and a rite of passage for many. Even more so when a...
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31 Mar 2022
The power of none: New book explores childfree perspectives
Ahead of its launch next month, editor Dr Davinia Thornley (Media, Film and Comm...
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10 Feb 2022
The suprising substance behind a selfie
When enrolling for Summer School papers, you might not think to go searching for...
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22 Nov 2021
Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022
Twenty-eight University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of...
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21 Sep 2021
Contagious Communication: A Historical Perspective
Contagious Communication: A Historical Perspective
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17 Aug 2021
Research seminar
Research seminar
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10 Aug 2021
Media, Film and Communication Seminar: “Public Understanding of Ignorance as Critical Science Literacy”
Dr Fabien Medvecky of The Centre for Science Communication discusses how, despit...
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20 Apr 2021
Why we should tax international aviation seminar with Professor Elisabeth Ellis
Just interaction in a non-ideal world: Why we should tax international aviation...
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30 Mar 2021
This Is Not Reality (Ceci n'est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of the People
This Is Not Reality (Ceci n'est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of...
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11 Mar 2021
Second award for Space museum research
Media, Film and Communication Associate Professor Hugh Slotten is looking forwar...
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04 Mar 2021
Can't Get You Out Of My Head: Power Politics & the Films of Adam Curtis (A Panel Discussion)
Adam Curtis is one of the pre-eminent documentary film-makers of our time. This...
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09 May 2019
The Posthuman as Genre
The Posthuman as Genre
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10 Apr 2019
Reparative Aesthetics
SGSC & MFCO seminar, Professor Susan Best, Reparative Aesthetics
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16 Mar 2019
Pussy Riot: Art, Protest & Power
pussy riot; screening; art and protest. The eight-member artivist troop of punk...
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28 Feb 2019
Foucault and the Politics of Language Today - Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University)
Mark Kelly, Western Sydney University, will speak on “Foucault and the Politics...
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15 Oct 2018
Gay Hawkins: Making animals public – the ABC and televisual animality
Gay Hawkins animals media science communication
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04 Oct 2018
Panel discussion on 'Frankenstein' and screening of 'Bride of Frankenstein'
Join us for a panel discussion about Mary Shelley's famous novel 'Frankenstein',...
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03 Oct 2018
Framing Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and the monster after 200 years
Professor Susan Lederer considers the ways in which the Frankenstein framework h...
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14 Sep 2018
Sean Phelan: Friedrich Hayek and the 'social justice warrior'
Sean Phelan neoliberalism Massey University Media Communication Hayek SJW
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03 Aug 2018
Mari Ruti: What is the universal - between Lacan and affect
Mari Ruti: What is the universal - between Lacan and affect
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02 Aug 2018
Mari Ruti: Queer theory between negativity and flourishing
Mari Ruti: Queer theory between negativity and flourishing
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30 Jul 2018
On the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene: A symposium
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30 Jun 2018
Space, Race, Bodies III: Walls
Conference
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25 May 2018
Gaming, VR & Empathy
Gaming, VR and Empathy
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27 Apr 2018
Indigenous social, cultural and political engagements on social media
Indigenous social, cultural and political engagements on social media
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23 Apr 2018
The most feminist show on television’?: The Fall, The Female Detective and Contemporary TV Crime Drama
The most feminist show on television’?: The Fall, The Female Detective and Conte...
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27 Feb 2018
Between Thriller and Comedy: Divided Belfast in Contemporary Film
Between Thriller and Comedy: Divided Belfast in Contemporary Film
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06 Dec 2017
Cultures of Capitalism
Cultures of Capitalism
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03 Nov 2017
Will the real racist please stand up?
Will the real racist please stand up?
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25 Oct 2017
Screening the stage: Actresses and acting in France from Theatre to Silent Cinema
Screening the stage: Actresses and acting in France from Theatre to Silent Cinem...
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20 Oct 2017
The algorithmic subject: The neo-liberal apparatus and the social media technology of power
The algorithmic subject: the neo-liberal apparatus and the social media technolo...
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29 Sep 2017
Big Data goes to the movies: Reshaping cinema studies
Big Data Goes to the Movies: reshaping cinema studies
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15 Sep 2017
Teenage History, Popular Media and the 'Scrapbook Self'
Teenage History, Popular Media and the 'Scrapbook Self'
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25 Aug 2017
White Noise of Desire
White Noise of Desire
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14 Aug 2017
OUSA Art Week: Art as a political tool
OUSA Art Week
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13 Jul 2017
Flags Die Harder than Men
Flags Die Harder than Men: Remembering the U.S. Civil War in 1960s Television We...
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12 Jul 2017
12 July 2017, International screenwriters drawn to Dunedin for conference
Some of the most prolific and central figures of the New Zealand film industry h...
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21 Apr 2017
Analysing Pleasure: A Symposium
Analysing Pleasure: A Symposium
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31 Mar 2017
“Security, Race, Biopower” Book Launch
“Security, Race, Biopower” Book Launch
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24 Mar 2017
Disentangling Race: Re-narrating apartheid sport?
Disentangling Race: Re-narrating apartheid sport?
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20 Oct 2016
Nietzschean Killers Meet Feminist Cop: Murder by Numbers and the Storying of Leopold and Loeb
Nietzschean Killers Meet Feminist Cop: Murder by Numbers and the Storying of Leo...
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28 Aug 2016
Screenwriting Research Network Conference
Screenwriting Research Network Conference
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28 Jun 2016
Alumnus recieves prestigious media research award
Dr David Paterno gains prestigious MEA award for PhD thesis
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17 Dec 2015
2015 300 level prize winners
2015 MFCO 300-level Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners
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09 Jul 2015
The Pa Boys
From Reality to the Dream
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09 Jul 2015
OUSA queer support
OUSA queer support
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08 Jul 2015
ANZA conference, Queenstown, July 2015
ANZCA conference, Queenstown, July 2015
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02 Jul 2015
Dr Davinia Thornley’s book launch
Dr Davinia Thornley’s book launch
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11 Jun 2015
Undergraduate student competition for Strategic Communication
Undergraduate student competition for Strategic Communication
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28 May 2015
HoD to chair young writers’ panel
HoD to chair young writers’ panel
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07 May 2015
Mobilizing Māori identity: cultural capital and expatriate “portable personhood”
Mobilizing Māori identity: cultural capital and expatriate “portable personhood”
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13 Mar 2015
Cinema and Post-Disaster Public Space
Cinema and Post-Disaster Public Space
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09 Feb 2015
Paper changes for 2015
new papers
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08 Feb 2015
Need help choosing papers?
choosing papers help
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18 Dec 2014
MFCO December Graduation Morning Tea
MFCO December Graduation Morning Tea
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13 Nov 2014
Essay Competition Awards
Essay Competition Awards
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13 Nov 2014
TNZ Screenwriting Dunedin Bid
Screenwriting Research Network
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16 Oct 2014
Edward Said: Intellectual Cultural Critic, Activist
Edward Said: Intellectual Cultural Critic, Activist
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16 Oct 2014
States of Violence: Geopolitics, Law, Technology
States of Violence: Geopolitics, Law, Technology
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10 Jun 2014
Latest staff publications - Holly Randell-Moon
staff publications Holly Randell-Moon
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05 Feb 2014
Surveillance, Copyright, Privacy: the End of the Open Internet - 30 January-1 February 2014
surveillance copyright privacy end open internet conference
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10 Jan 2014
Environments, Spaces and Transformations
MFCO Early Career-Graduates host inaugural conference, 5-6 June 2014, Environmen...
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06 Dec 2013
Cultures of Capitalism
Cultures of Capitalism
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01 Nov 2013
2014 BAFTSS award to Associate Professor Catherine Fowler
BAFTSS prize
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01 Nov 2013
Environments, Spaces and Transformations
environments, spaces and transformations
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01 Nov 2013
2013 Essay Competition Winners
2013 MFCO 300-level Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners
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01 Nov 2013
Special Olympics NZ National Games - MFCO Interns
Special Olympics, Internships
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01 Nov 2013
Dissertation hand in 2013
MFCO490, dissertation, submission
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01 Nov 2013
2015 papers
2015 papers
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01 Nov 2013
Indian Cinema Conference
Indian Cinema Conference 2013
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08 Oct 2013
MFCO student is a winner in phone video competition
MFCO student wins video competition
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27 Sep 2013
MFCO 219 Broadcast and News Media
MFCO 219 Broadcast and News Media
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27 Sep 2013
MFCO High Schools Open Day
MFCO High Schools Open Day
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27 Sep 2013
MFCO 113. Screen Production: Light, Sound, Motion
MFCO 113 Screen Production: Light, Sound, Motion. Summer School at MFCO will be...
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10 Aug 2011
10 August 2011 Media Release
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05 Jul 2011