Has research ‘carried out at the crossroads of Geography, Media and Film Studies’ reached such volume and complexity to necessitate a major international conference which seeks to assess ‘the prospects of communication geography as a more formalized academic field’? Apparently the answer is yes, seeing the advanced call for papers for GeoMedia 2015, which will … Continue Reading
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Scott Rodgers
‘Holding Things in Common’ Symposium at Birkbeck
Richard Evans, a PhD student at Birkbeck, is co-organising a postgraduate and early career symposium titled Holding Things in Common: the vernacular, everyday objects and memory at the Birkbeck Cinema on Monday 12th May. The event includes three panels showcasing a wide range of interesting papers (see schedule below). This will be followed by a … Continue Reading
New article really, really published: The architectures of media power
Earlier last year I made mention of an article slowly making its way to publication. I was promised, in language seeming to implicitly recognize the general malaise of the approaching REF (thankfully behind us all in the UK … until 2020 which is already being talking about), that it would be out in the final … Continue Reading
MPhil/PhD studentships at Birkbeck: Applications Due 17 February 2014
Birkbeck’s School of Arts is currently inviting applications for up to 17 Postgraduate Research Scholarships, which consist of full home/EU postgraduate fee waivers and an annual stipend at research council rates. Some of these studentships may be awarded for research proposals in the areas covered by the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies. I … Continue Reading
Video now available for Conditions of Mediation preconference
Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers After much behind-the-scenes fidgeting and arranging, I’m happy to say we can finally make available an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, the ICA preconference I co-organized with Tim Markham, … Continue Reading
Call for chapter proposals: Conditions of Mediation
In the wake of what we thought was a very productive Conditions of Mediation ICA preconference in June 2013, Tim Markham and I are now preparing a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, … Continue Reading
New paper published on ‘Circulating cities of difference’
In what must be surely the fastest turnaround from final manuscript submission to publication I will ever experience, a paper of mine has just been published in JOMEC Journal. Originally a book chapter in a unpublished edited book, this paper has now been significantly revised before as well as after peer review, just in time … Continue Reading
Repeat media tour of West End London on 19 June 2013
On 19 June 2013, Joel McKim and I will be leading a repeat of the media tour we led together for the first time in May (we’re both shown doing so in the photo above – though Joel’s looking away, at the Apple Store – credit to Joe Smith from the OU for taking it). … Continue Reading
Being in the World: a screening and discussion
Next week, on Friday 7 June 2013, I will be hosting a screening and discussion of Being in the World (Tao Ruspoli | USA | 2010 | 81’) through Birkbeck’s Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice. Being in the World explores the intimate connections between skilful mastery and the ways in which humans beings … Continue Reading
New article published: The architectures of media power
Another paper of mine slowly grinding its way to publication – titled ‘The architectures of media power: editing, the newsroom and urban public space’ – is now available in proper typeset form (though still not with proper pagination) in the OnlineFirst section of the journal Space and Culture. I am told that it will appear … Continue Reading