BAFTSS Conference 2025
University of Warwick
26-28 March 2025
Global Aesthetics
Confirmed keynote speaker: Lúcia Nagib
This conference focuses on the dynamic and evolving interrelations between audio-visual media’s aesthetic forms and global cultures, taking in the multifarious ways that these terms can be understood both on and off screen. While cinema has been an international medium since its inception, since the 1990s film and screen studies more generally have seen renewed interest in transnational and, increasingly, postnational approaches, as well as a desire to widen and decolonise canons and geo-cultural fields of study. The advent of a new era of distribution and exhibition, in which the majority of viewers consume content through websites and streaming platforms, has encouraged and accelerated this globalization of production and consumption. Such changes invite on-going and evolving critical engagement with the ever-expanding repertoire of global aesthetics available to practitioners and users of audio-visual media and scholars of the production process, economics, work cultures, policy frameworks, artefacts and discourses that arise from them.
Please submit your proposals to Baftssconference2025@warwick.ac.uk . If you have previously written to a different address, we would be grateful if you could re-send your message to this one.
Location:
The University of Warwick is a short bus journey from Coventry and Leamington Spa. Coventry is a one hour train journey from London and 20/30 minutes from Birmingham. There will be reasonably priced accommodation available on the University campus for conference delegates. There are also accommodation options in Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth.