Call for proposals: New Connections 2022

We are now inviting proposals for this academic year’s ‘New Connections Programme’, a series of research talks at universities across the UK. This year, BAFTSS will provide five bursaries of £100 to enable academics who are either non-affiliated or on fixed-term contracts to present their research to a new audience. The bursary can be used to cover travel costs and/or academic book purchases.

​Download the call for proposals here.

New Connections 2021

Information about research talks in 2021 is given below. We would like to thank our ECR members for applying to take part, colleagues at the various host universities for being so welcoming, and our sponsor Edinburgh University Press.

Wednesday 17th February 2021, 1pm-2.30pm (online)

• Dr Craig Ian Mann – ‘Take Me to Your Leader: Alien Invasion Films in the Reagan Era’ 
• Dr Mann’s online talk was hosted by the University of Hertfordshire’s Media Research Group (School of Creative Arts).
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/groups-and-units/media-research-group/research-talks-video-resources

Friday 23rd April 2021, 2pm (online)

• Dr Hanja Dämon – ‘A Failed Film Project in Austria: Interwar Star Franziska Gaal’s Unmade Post-War Comeback’
• Dr Dämon’s talk was hosted by the Culture, Media, and Society Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/552804954/85eac8723f

Wednesday 5th May 2021, 1pm-2.30pm (online)

• Dr Kieran Foster – ‘Shadow Cinema: Unmade Films and the Archive’
• Dr Foster’s talk was hosted by the University of Hertfordshire’s Media Research Group (School of Creative Arts).
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/groups-and-units/media-research-group/media-research-group-videos/media-research-group-seminar-videos

Wednesday 11th May 2021, 4pm (online)

• Dr Ozge Ozduzen – ‘Online Radical Right Activity in Turkey and Britain’
• Dr Ozduzen’s talk was part of the Visiting Speaker Seminars hosted by the Centre for International Film Research at the University of Southampton.
• Access the talk here.

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Wednesday 16th June 2021, 4.30-6pm (online)

• Dr Laurence Kent and Liam Rogers – Posthumanism(s) Roundtable: ‘Cinematic Sapience and the Rethinking of Rationality in Contemporary Science Fiction’
• This roundtable, chaired by Professor Catherine Constable, was part of the Film and Television Research Seminar Series, hosted by the University of Warwick.
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/564211674

Thursday 28 October 2021, 4-6pm (online)

• Dr Llewella Chapman – ‘Bond Undressed: Researching Costume in the James Bond Films Through Archives’
• Dr Chapman’s talk was hosted by the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. The talk was not recorded.

New Connections 2019/20

Wednesday October 30th 2019, 2 – 5pm

• Dr Matthew Robinson: ‘An “Emotional Moment”: The Execution of Ruth Ellis in Pierrepoint (2005)
• Dr. Robinson’s talk is hosted by the Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of Wolverhampton (Location: Room  MC226, Millennium City Building, City Campus). For further details please contact Dr Benjamin Halligan (B.Halligan@wlv.ac.uk) Director of the Doctoral College, or Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly, (f.e.pheasant-kelly@wlv.ac.uk), Director Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture.

Wednesday 13th November 2019, 6 – 7pm

• Dr Eve Benhamou: “An Expanding Cinematic Universe: Contemporary Disney Animation and Genre in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)"
• ​Dr Benhamou’s talk is part of the ‘Film, Media and Global Culture Seminar Series’ at the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII), University College London (Location: Room 111, Foster Court, Malet Place). For further details please contact Dr Keith B. Wagner (k.wagner@ucl.ac.uk) or Dr Benhamou (e.m.a.benhamou@swansea.ac.uk). 

Monday 17th February 2020, 5pm

• Dr Oliver Kenny: ‘Brits can't do erotica: the impact of nationality on British attitudes towards sexual imagery.’
• Dr Kenny’s talk is hosted by the History Research Group,  Bournemouth University (Location: Room W240, Weymouth House). (For further details please contact Dr Austin Fisher afisher@bournemouth.ac.uk), or Dr Oliver Kenny (oliver.kenny@univ-lille.fr) 

April 2020 (date to be confirmed)

• Dr Stella Gaynor: 'Horror According to Netflix: A carefully curated exploration of genre.'
• Dr Gaynor’s talk is hosted by the Department of Media, Journalism and Film, The University of Huddersfield. Her paper will explore a selection of horror original series on Netflix, and unlock through industrial analysis the methods, models, and strategies used by Netflix to make and promote a horror series. Using textual analysis of Hemlock Grove, Haunting of Hill House, Black Summer, Kingdom and Chambers, this paper will ask what the model of Netflix means for the development of serialized horror.
• For more information, please contact Professor Catherine Johnson (C.Johnson2@hud.ac.uk) at the University of Huddersfield.