CRITICAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Version update 14/07/21 STUDIES IN TELEVISION SLOW CONFERENCE 19 July-6 August 2021 Time Zones Overview Contents Time Zones Overview................................................................................................................ 0 Welcome .................................................................................................................................... 2 How to use Teams and etiquette ................................................................................................ 3 Programme Critical Studies in Television 2021 Slow Conference Overview ........................... 6 Programme Details..................................................................................................................... 8 Monday, 19 July 2021............................................................................................................ 8 Keynote: Kristen Warner, University of Alabama ............................................................ 8 Wednesday, 21 July 2021 ...................................................................................................... 9 10-11.30am: Television Studies and Criticism in the Age of Multiplatform Television .. 9 4-5.30pm: Transnational Television Industries and their Strategies ............................... 11 Thursday, 22 July 2021 ........................................................................................................ 14 Panel: Game of Thrones – Understanding Audience Responses to a Challenging TV Series ................................................................................................................................ 14 Friday, 23 July 2021 ............................................................................................................ 16 9.30-11am Challenges to Teaching and Research in Television ..................................... 16 Monday, 26 July 2021.......................................................................................................... 19 1-2.30pm Gender and/on Television................................................................................ 19 3-4.30pm The Internet and/as Television ........................................................................ 21 Tuesday, 27 July 2021 ......................................................................................................... 25 Roundtable: Cultures of Television Studies .................................................................... 25 Wednesday, 28 July 2021 .................................................................................................... 26 3-4.30pm Re-Writing Early Histories of Television........................................................ 26 Monday, 2 August 2021 ....................................................................................................... 29 9.15-11am Researching Television’s Histories ............................................................... 29 4pm-5.30pm Television and the Question of Quality ...................................................... 31 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 Conference Programme Wednesday, 4 August .......................................................................................................... 35 10.30-12noon Questions of Genre ................................................................................... 35 1.30-2.30m Nationally Specific Developments ............................................................... 37 3-4.30pm Representations of the Politically Marginalised .............................................. 39 Friday, 6 August 2021.......................................................................................................... 42 PhD Candidate Roundtable .............................................................................................. 42 2-3.30pm Convergence: The Challenge to the Industry .................................................. 42 Television Studies: Where to? ......................................................................................... 46 1 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 Conference Programme Welcome The teams of the Television Studies Research Group at Edge Hill University and the Critical Studies in Television editorial team welcome you to the 2021 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference. Please feel free to tweet! Hashtag is #CSTConference2021. And if you want to be nice, include @CSTonlinetv and #TVStudiesResearchGroup, @EHU_ISR and @EdgeHill_Media. This year’s conference follows a theme of examining the discipline itself. As we find ourselves at several crossroads of change, brought about by digitalisation, social movements, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s time to take stock. Our contributors have responded to a call for paper that invites them to reflect on our discipline. This conference will thus be a space where we can come together to set the agenda for television research and education. We will hear papers from all disciplines that engage with television and want to contribute to Television Studies as a field. Delegates are presenting papers that offer analyses of the field(s) or methods and ask questions about what research Television Studies should conduct and how we want to teach the subject. The conference will take place via Teams (for more information see below), but all presentations will also be uploaded to YouTube to the following playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBrk-wPNLaVn8h21oryiYpbimT8tMdBBp If you have a Google account, you should be able to comment and ask questions there – and we hope to continue the conversation there. Please bear with us – this is the first time we are running this conference like this, and there will inevitably be a learning curve… which will make the next slow conference all the better. 2 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 Conference Programme How to use Teams and etiquette To join any of our sessions, please click the links below which are available both in the overview (click the linked-up title of the session) and in the section which includes the abstracts. When you enter, you will notice that you are muted and that your camera should be off. Please leave it like this until you want to ask a question in the Q&A. You can ask questions via the chat, or by raising your hand. To raise your hand, click the image of the emoji with the hand. One of the options is hand raising: If you are presenting, obviously you will need to unmute yourself and ideally also switch on your camera. You will be given permission to screenshare which you can do by clicking this icon: 3 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 Conference Programme When you’ve clicked that button, you should see an option to share either the screen or a window. If you click ‘window’, you will be given an option as to what to share: in that case pick your relevant presentation: 4 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 Conference Programme You should then be able to see your presentation – click on ‘present’ as always and that will give delegates the ability to see your full screen presentation. In order to finish presenting, click the window with the x at the bottom: This will end the screen sharing. For further information about Teams, see here: Downloadable guides (microsoft.com) If you are on a MAC, a chrome book or some other form of device or/and things don’t work, please don’t worry: it’s probably easiest if you send the slides beforehand to Elke ([email protected]) and you give her instructions on when to move forward onto the next slides when you present. As always, any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. 5 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 Conference Programme Programme Critical Studies in Television 2021 Slow Conference Overview Day Morning Early Afternoon Late Afternoon Monday, 19 July 4-5.15pm Opening: Jo Crotty, Head of the Institute for Social Responsibility Keynote: Kristen Warner Wednesday, 21 July 10-11.30am 4-5.30pm Television Studies and Narratives of Criticism in the Age of Television Multiplatform Yu Xiang Television Emily Walker, Brett Robert Watts Mills and Justine Mann John Ellis Klára Feikusová Thursday, 22 July 1-2.30pm Panel: Game of Thrones – Understanding Audience Responses to a Challenging TV Series Feona Attwood Clarissa Smith Friday, 23 July 9.15-11am Challenges to Teaching and Research in Television James Walters Mike Wayne Paul Grainge Monday, 26 July 1-2.30pm 3-4.30pm Gender and/on The Internet and/as Television Television Ana Tominc David Levente Palatinus 6 Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 Conference Programme Sonia Sa JP Kelly Cat Mahoney Mareike Jenner Tuesday, 27 July 2pm Roundtable: Cultures of Television Studies Luca Barra Ruchi Kerr Jaggi Gary Edgerton Alexia Smit Wednesday, 28 July 3-4.30pm Re-Writing Early Histories of Television Andy Lawrence Carl Sweeney Caryn Murphy Monday, 2 August 9.15-11am 4pm-5.30pm Researching Television and the Television’s Histories Question of Quality Charlotte Stevens Tom May Derek Johnston Tom Hemingway Ipsita Sahu Melissa Beattie Michael J. Clark Wednesday, 4 August 10.30-12noon 1.30-2.30m 3-4.30pm Questions of Genre Nationally Specific Representation of the Emily Walker Developments Politically Lothar Mikos Deborah Castro and Marginalised Concepcion Cascajosa Susanne Eichner Rosane Svartman and Ricardo Ramirez Felipe Muanis Julie Taddeo and Katherine Byrne Friday,