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With apologies for cross posting. Registration for the postgraduate conference 'Mediated Pasts: Visual Cultures and Collective Memory' is now open, priced at only £15. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome. Register now at: http://store.dmu.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=40&catid=190&prodid=2217 Conference details are below. Further information including full proceedings will be updated at http://cathpostgrad.wordpress.com/ *MEDIATED PASTS: VISUAL CULTURES AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY* *A postgraduate conference* *Wednesday 4th June 2014, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK* *Keynote speaker:* *Dr. Amy Holdsworth,* *Lecturer in Film and Television Studies (University of Glasgow)* Author of *Television, Memory and Nostalgia* (2011, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Collective cultural memory, which according to José van Dijck is concerned with the “communal reservoir of relevant stories about our past and future” (2007: 8), has received a great deal of academic attention over the past two decades. More and more, these studies have focused on the impact of media on this ‘reservoir’, be it via collectively remembered images or via contemporary media that depicts the past retrospectively, as evidenced by the work of van Dijck and Amy Holdsworth (2011), among several others. Visual media – whether film, television, video games, photography or online media – have played an increasing role in the formation of cultural memory since 1950, and especially since the digital age, as screen cultures and media technologies have proliferated and diversified at an exponential rate. De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre has been an active contributor to research on the relationship between media and cultural memory through its participation in the BECTU Oral Histories Project and in the Leverhulme-funded Hollywood and the Baby Boom project. As such, the CATH Centre’s third annual postgraduate conference will seek to explore the role of visual media in shaping collective memories, especially since the Second World War. How have transformations in media impacted on people’s relationships to the past? Can new media sources now be accepted as valid historical evidence? -- *Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre Postgraduates* Room 3.06J School of Media and Communication Clephan Building De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH e: [log in to unmask] w: http://cathpostgrad.wordpress.com/ -------------------------------------------------------- BAFTSS mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the BAFTSS list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=baftss ------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members of BAFTSS. --------------------------------------------------------