Research events

A conversation with Professor Shoshana Zuboff

Master Elisabeth Brun at Department of Media and Communication will be defending the thesis: the ESSAY FILM as TOPOGRAPHY - explorations of place through moving image thinking for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor)

Final seminars at the IMK give our PhD candidates an opportunity to give a public presentation of the final draft of their PhD thesis before the submission, and get feedback from the opponent.

Hans Kristian Rustad presents work in progress.

Four Screen Cultures MA students will present materials from their ongoing Master's thesis projects. 

"Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics" (3)

Media Aesthetics invites Screen Cultures to a joint workshop focusing on Screen Cultures. 

On the program:

High Speed * Brainstorming * Screen Cultures 

Four Screen Cultures MA students will present materials from their ongoing Master’s thesis projects. What is interesting, striking, annoying, comical, tragic? Please join us. Materials will include Youtube videos of the Alt-Right, romantic scenes from Iranian movies, the #Munch hashtag on Instagram and ‘Covidiot’-shaming posts on Twitter.

Liv Hausken presents work in progress on “Conceptions of Deepfakes”.

Because of the coronavirus situation the workshop will be held via Zoom. The meeting ID will be distributed in advance via e-mail.

Eimantė Liubertaitė presents a draft of the introduction to her dissertation, titled Confessional Subjectivity and Ironic Distance in Metamodern Literary Memoirs.

Annie Fee presents work in progress titled "Interwar Cinephilia and the Question of Class."

Because of the coronavirus situation the workshop will be held via Zoom. The meeting ID will be distributed in advance via e-mail.

This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19 related travel restrictions.

Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof. Bruce Isaacs (University of Sydney) for the final installment of our public lecture series. The lecture will be held at Cinemateket, followed by a screening of Frenzy (Hitchcock, 1972).

This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19 related travel restrictions.

Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Prof. Lynn Spigel (Northwestern School of Communication) for the fourth installment of our public lectures series.

Gry Cecilie Rustad presents work in progress.

This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19 related restrictions.

Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Prof. Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick) for the third installment of our public lectures series.

"Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics" (2)

Media Aesthetics invites Screen Cultures to a joint workshop focusing on Screen Cultures. Today, Jon Inge Faldalen will present his book proposal, titled Filmmaking Style - Joachim Trier writing, directing and editing The Worst Person in the World.

Due to the Corona situation this workshop will be held via Zoom. More info soon!

This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19 related travel restrictions.

Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Prof. Shannon Mattern (The New School, New York) as our second guest speaker in a series of public lectures this spring.

Introduction seminar is one of the Department's obligatory seminars for all new PhD candidates.

Synne Tollerud Bull presents part of her ongoing post.doc project on interactive (cinematic) maps and remote sensing operations in artistic forms of proxistance.

Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Dr. Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam) as our first guest speaker in a series of public lectures this spring.

"Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics" (1)

Media Aesthetics invites Screen Cultures to a joint workshop focusing on Screen Cultures. More information about this collaboration is coming soon.

On the program:

Steffen Krüger will use the opportunity to dust off his pet project with the working title "Instagram, plasticity and mental health - the persistent question of narcissism in social media". 

Four open seminars discussing works-in-progress.

Timotheus Vermeulen will present his book proposal about acting and temporality with the working title “Acting time! Performance, history and temporality in film and television”.