BAFTSS Conference 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. 

The call for papers is now closed. A programme for the conference is available here. If you have any questions please send them to Baftssconference2025@warwick.ac.uk .

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. Reasonably priced accommodation is available on the University campus for conference delegates. There are also accommodation options in Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth.