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KEYNOTES

Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)

Iris Vidmar Jovanović (University of Rijeka)

DAY 1 – Thursday 7 July

09:30-09:50 Coffee/Registration (Aphra Foyer)

09:50-10:00 Conference Welcome with Dr David Brown (Aphra)

Parallel Session 1 (10:00-11:00)

Session 1a (Aphra)

10:00-10:30

Caitlin Shaw, University of Bristol
‘History lives in us, whether we learn it or not’: Eclectic aesthetic pastness in Severance

10:30-11:00

Alex Clayton, University of Bristol
Serial Performance and the Severed Self

Session 1b (Lumley)

10:00-10:30

Afroditi Nikolaidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nostalgia Aesthetics and contemporary Greek TV fiction

10:30-11:00

Deniz Özalpman, University of Vienna
A Focus on the Aesthetic Qualities of Turkish TV drama series: Identity-Related TV Drama Series Consumption

11:00-11:15 BREAK

Parallel Session 2 (11:15-12:15)

Session 2a (Aphra)

11:15-11:45

Michael Clark, University of Kent
Alternative Television?

11:45-12:15

Colette Olive, King’s College London
Illumination and the Small Screen: Ways of Understanding in Television

Session 2b (Lumley)

11:15-11:45

Daniel Brookes, University of Bristol and University of Worcester
Crimes we can aspire to: an aesthetic of neoliberal hybridity in contemporary longform true crime streaming documentaries

11:45-12:15

Ruth Adams, King’s College London
Abigail’s Party – Class, consumption, and critiques of mass culture

12:15-13:30 LUNCH in The Gulbenkian

Parallel Session 3 (13:30-14:30)

Session 3a (Aphra)

13:30-14:00

Enrico Terrone and Luca Bandirali, Università di Genova and University of Salento
The Conceptual Approach to Television Series

14:00-14:30

Sven Grampp, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
~~Watching television with Nelson Goodman~~

Session 3b (Lumley)

13:30-14:00

Klára Feikusová, Palacký University
The Negotiation of Film and Television Style in Cinematic TV Shows with the Case Study of The Crown

14:00-14:30

Josie Torres Barth, North Carolina State University
Towards a Historical Poetics of Television

14:30-14:45 BREAK

Parallel Session 4 (14:45-15:45)

Session 4a (Aphra)

14:45-15:15

Kristyn Gorton and Sarah Lahm, University of Leeds
Aesthetics, form and complexity in the contemporary half-hour drama

15:15-15:45

Theresa Trimmel, University of Bristol
Redefining the Traditional American Family Sitcom: The Intersections between Television Aesthetics and Gender Politics in AMC’s Kevin Can F**k Himself

Session 4b (Lumley)

14:45-15:15

Ben Tyrer, Middlesex University
The Shudder of the Image: Televisual Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Hannibal

15:15-15:45

Caroline Eastwood, University of Kent
Listen to the Sounds: Sound and the multisensory in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return

15:45-16:00 BREAK

Keynote 1 (16:00-17:30) – Aphra

Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
Television Aesthetics, Videographic Criticism, and the Case of Breaking Bad

18:30 CONFERENCE DINNER at The Gulbenkian

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DAY 2 – Friday 8 July

09:30-10:00 Coffee/Registration (Aphra Foyer)

Keynote 2 (10:00-11:30) – Aphra

Iris Vidmar Jovanović, University of Rijeka
Attachment Trajectory of Viewer’s Long-term Engagement with TV Series

11:30-12:00 BREAK

Parallel Session 5 (12:00-13:00)

Session 5a (Aphra)

12:00-12:30

Mike Clarke, University of Kent
“I feel like my life is just a series of unrelated wacky adventures”: BoJack Horseman and the Aesthetics of Streamed Animation

12:30-13:00

Orcun Can, Coventry University
Towards a Narrative Theory of Internet TV: A Formal Analysis Model to Identify Narrative Tropes in Netflix Originals

Session 5b (Lumley)