Seminars and visiting scholars

2021

• Gemma Blackwood (University of Tasmania) Virus Island? Examining Australian media coverage of the Covid-19 Christmas Island quanantine.
• Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia) Contagious Communications: A Historical Perspective.
• Cathy Fowler and Teri Higgins (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Epistolary Forms in Film, Media and the Visual Arts.
• Fabien Medvecky (University of Otago, Science Communication) Public understanding of ignorance as critical science literacy.
• Cindy Zeiher (University of Canterbury) Reading desire as mediating force.
• Kelley Conway (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Agnès Varda, producer.
• Jake Mahaffy (University of Auckland) Reunion: From creative concept to final cut — The evolution of a scene.
• 유정석 Jung Seok Yu — Lucas (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication, PhD candidate) How to regulate social media in a democracy: A study of platform accountability in South Korea.
• Oliver Dearnley-Smith (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication, PhD candidate) Alienation as Negative Affect – Critical Theory and the Disintegrated Individual.
• Taylor Adams (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication, MA candidate) Ingesting slow, soft technology: Somatechnics and the biomedicalisation of the healthy 'well' being.
• Lisa Ellis (University of Otago, Philosophy) Just action in a non-ideal world: Why we should tax international aviation fuel.
• Poala Voci (University of Otago, Languages and cultures) This Is Not Reality (Ceci n'est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of the People Creativity, the Chinese Subaltern, and Documentary Storytelling.
• Hugh Slotten (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) The Global South in the Space Age: Satellite Communications and 'Developing' Countries, 1964-2001.

2020

• Ryan Tippet (University of Otago, PhD candidate, Media, Film and Communication) Constitutive surveillance and social media.
• Kevin Fletcher (University of Otago, PhD candidate, Media, Film and Communication) The family in United States media culture.
• George Elliott (University of Otago, MA candidate, Media, Film and Communication) What does the astronaut encounter? The crew demo 1 mission, speed as repose and the spaceman's Baudrillard double.
• Kevin Fisher (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Rhizomatic Flesh in Fantastic Fungi.
• Mariska Mannes (University of Otago, PhD candidate, Media, Film and Communication) Cultural and professional value differences in NZ's multicultural health sector.
• Rosie Overell (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) #hashtag politics and the Lacanian Real.
• Catherine Fowler (University of Otago,Media, Film and Communication) Teaching with the audio-visual essay: Case studies for creative criticality.
• Gianna Savoie (University of Otago, Science Communication) I am ocean: Hawaii (2016) and Te Mana o Te Moana: The Pacific Voyagers (2012).
• Susan Wardell (University of Otago, Social anthropology) Health on(the)line: Medical crowdfunding and the circulation of care.
• Keziah Wallis (University of the Fraser Valley) Revisiting fourth cinema.
• Deniz Karahan-Alp (University of Otago, PhD candidate, Media, Film and Communication) Between emancipation and domination: Herbert Marcuse and social media.
• David Greene (University of Otago, PhD candidate, Media, Film and Communication) Disarticulated cinema.

2019

• Anne Begg (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Narrating democracy in an age of media and algorithmic governmentality.
• Hugh Slotten (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Satellite communications, global research, and applying for international grants and fellowships.
• Paul Ramaeker (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Elevated horror: Contemporary prestige horror cinema in a transmedia market.
• Cathy Fowler (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Ways of thinking outside the (black) box: The artists' long take as passage.
• Olivier Jutel (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Fake news, civility and subversion: Journalism's cultural capital and Donald Trump.
• Kevin Fisher (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Post-cinematic ontology and the reversibility of the flesh.
• Brett Nicholls (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Jordan Peterson and his concept of postmodern marxism.
• Davinia Thornley (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication) Working together to groduce 'true' event adaptation.
• Adam Hendricks (Blumhouse productions) When Blumhouse comes to town: A conversation with Adam Hendricks.
• Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University) Foucault and the politics of language.

2018

• Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton) The most feminist show on television?: The Fall, the female detective and contemporary TV crime drama.
• Gay Hawkings (Western Sydney University) Making Animals Public: ABC and televisual animality.
• Susan Lederer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Framing Frankenstein: Shelley and the monster after 200 years.
• Sean Phelan (Massey University) Friedrich Hayek and the 'social justice warrior'.
• Steven Epstein (Victoria University of Wellington) Celebrities, netizens and nationalism in Asia.
• Mari Ruti (University of Toronto) What Is the Universal? Between Lacanian Political Theory and Affect Theory.
• Mari Ruti (University of Toronto) Queer theory between negativity and flourishing.
• Amanda Martin (University of Otago, Theatre Studies) Gaming, virtul reality and empathy.
• Stephanie Schwerter (University of Valenciennes) Between thriller and comedy: Divided Belfast in contemporary film.

2017

• Ciara Creman (University of Auckland) The hyper-imaginary.
• Doug Booth (University of Otago, Department of Physical Education) Disentangling race: Re-narrating apartheid sport.
• Jennifer Fuller (Miami University, Ohio) Flags Die Harder than Men: Remembering the U.S. Civil War in 1960s Television Westerns.
• Cindy Zeiher (University of Canterbury) White noise of desire.
• Chris Brickell (University of Otago, Gender Studies) Teenage history, popular media and the 'scrapbook self'.
• Deb Verhoeven (University of Technology Sydney) Big Data Goes to the Movies: reshaping cinema studies.
• Chris Hacon (University of Otago, Media, Film and Communication). The algorithmic subject: The neoliberal apparatus and the social media technology of power.
• Victoria Duckett (Deakin University) Screening the stage: Actresses and acting in France from Theatre to Silent Cinema.
• Mahdis Azarmandi (University of Otago, Peace and Conflict Studies) Colonial Continuities: A study of anti-racism in Aotearoa New Zealand and Spain.