An enticing conference will be taking place this September at the University of Zagreb, organised by Seija Ridell, Simone Tosoni and Zlatan Krajina. Rather sadly, I won’t be able to go as it directly coincides with our undergraduate induction day, which I can’t miss this year. Not only would it have been nice to present … Continue Reading
Technologies of sustainability PhD scholarship at Birkbeck
An interesting PhD opportunity has emerged out of some nascent cross-disciplinary partnerships being developed at Birkbeck around the theme of ‘sustainability’, understood in a very broad sense. That is, not just the ‘green’ meaning of sustainability associated with biological systems or ecological environments, but a much wider range of systems and environments (from societal health … Continue Reading
Media practices and urban politics: a conversation about slow theory
As Clive Barnett (here, and in more detail here) and Stuart Elden (here) have already posted, the Society and Space open site has now released a podcast conversation between myself, Clive Barnett and Allan Cochrane, hosted by Tim Markham, about our paper recently published in the journal. In conjunction with the podcast being published, the … Continue Reading
Event at The Hub: Open Data, Smart Citizens?
Along with Myria Georgiou and a whole gang of others, Joel McKim and I have been helping to establish a new (and as-yet unnamed) London research network on media and cities. Like quite a few things in which I’m involved, the network has been on a bit of a slow burn for the past several … Continue Reading
Jussi Parikka at The Hub: Media Fossils and the Outerspace Anthropocene
This Friday, 24 October, the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, The Hub and the Computer Arts Society will be welcoming media theorist Jussi Parikka to Birkbeck. The lecture takes place in the Keynes Library at 43 Gordon Square, starting at 6pm , and followed by a drinks reception. The event is free but … Continue Reading
New website for Richard Evans
Richard Evans, a PhD research who I co-supervise with Michael Temple, has launched a great new website. Richard is a film and media researcher whose work joins philosophy, recent cultural geography and film theory in order to explore the materiality of landscape, and especially its connections with national identity. More information is available on the … Continue Reading
New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces: Call for Papers for GeoMedia 2015
Helen Morgan Parmett and I have recently advertised a Call for Papers, for a theme panel that we are proposing for the forthcoming conference GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. We’re keen to get a good range of submissions which think about and study media ‘production’ spaces through new perspectives, particularly those informed … Continue Reading
Where is urban politics? Symposium published online
I’ve noticed in reading a blog post by Clive Barnett that the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research has published an Early View version of a special symposium issue titled ‘Where is urban politics’ (subscription required), edited by Clive, Allan Cochrane and myself. This is a symposium that’s been long in the making, traceable … Continue Reading
GeoMedia 2015: formalizing ‘communication geography’?
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
‘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