A BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS CONFERENCE – TELEVISION AESTHETICS: NOW WHAT?
University of Kent | Thursday 7 – Friday 8 July 2022
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)
Iris Vidmar Jovanović (University of Rijeka)
This is an in-person conference, but we will be streaming the following papers online:
- Jason Mittell – Television Aesthetics, Videographic Criticism, and the Case of Breaking Bad (Thursday 7 July – 4pm BST).
- Iris Vidmar Jovanović – Attachment Trajectory of Viewers’ Long-term Engagement with TV Series (Friday 8 July – 10am BST).
- John Ellis – Visible Fictions 40 Years On (Friday 8 July – 2:30pm BST).
- Roundtable with Jason Mittell, Margrethe Bruun Vaage, John Ellis and Iris Vidmar Jovanović (Friday 8 July – 4:00pm BST).
About the conference
The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent is delighted to invite you to ‘Television Aesthetics: Now What?’ a two-day conference organised with generous funding from the British Society of Aesthetics.
The title of our conference – ‘Television Aesthetics: Now What?’ – is a provocative metacritical question about the state of the field. Our conference aims to bring together philosophical aesthetics with both television studies and television aesthetics. We wish to stimulate exchange across different disciplines and approaches, with contributions from television scholars, philosophers, and aestheticians. In bringing together these different perspectives, we hope to make some headway towards answering the question ‘Now what for television aesthetics?’
Registration for the conference is FREE.
Should you have any questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us at televisionaesthetics@kent.ac.uk.
Lead Organiser: Dr David Brown
Programme Committee: Prof Murray Smith, Dr Margrethe Bruun Vaage, Dr Dieter Declercq, Michael Clark