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- Dr. Les Roberts has a new chapter, “Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation,” in the recent edited collection Geography’s Media Turn! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- Y3 students, please complete the National Student Survey! www.thestudentsurvey.com?fbclid=PAZnR...
- Dr. Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova just published a co-authored article with Dr. Dariya Orlova entitled “Between Precarity and the War: Journalists’ Safety in Ukraine” in the Ukrainian Analytical Digest css.ethz.ch/content/dam/...
- Franziska Mertl, a recent Bachelor’s graduate in Communications and Busness studies, is profiled in the newest issue of PSA News!
- Great to see it out. I'm very happy to have two chapters in this collection, one an interview and the other co-authored with Tommaso Milani
- 📢 OUT NOW: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026) www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
- The “Online Early” version of Jamie Jelinski’s article “Face the Fax: Bureaucracy and the Unrealized Potential of Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police” has just been published by Grey Room. It will be included in the journal’s Spring 2026 issue (no. 103)! direct.mit.edu/grey/article...
- @nessjay.bsky.social has a chapter, “Roger Corman in Ireland: The Cult Auteur, the Celtic Tiger, and the Nascent Irish Cult Cinema Canon,” in the new edited collection Global Cult Cinemas: Decolonizing Cult Film Studies www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-cu...
- @michellehenning.bsky.social was just interviewed by the New Books Network about her new book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, Empire newbooksnetwork.com/a-dirty-hist...
- @craighaslop.bsky.social was on BBC Merseyside last week discussing the proposed social media ban for under 16s! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ptl2
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- Dr. Jordana Blejmar is giving a virtual talk entitled “Cold War Toys in South America” for the Royal Anthropological Institute on February 10. Registration via the link below! therai.org.uk/events/anthr...
- New book, Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective, co-authored by the department’s Dr. Suzanne McClure and published by Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- The submission deadline for the @cceluliverpool.bsky.social’s conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!
- A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
- PhD student Emily Horn’s first article, “A Hard Distinction: Applying the Science of Sex to Art History’s Pornography Problem,” was just published in in Debates in Aesthetics. debatesinaesthetics.org/debates-in-a...
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- Jamie Jelinski is giving an online talk on February 5 via the Photography Network entitled “Not So Fast Fax: Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Join the Photography Network and register to attend at the link below. www.photographynetwork.net/news/not-so-...
- Prof. Michelle Henning’s book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire, is now out! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- New chapter co-authored by Dr. Elena Musi! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
- New paper in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations co-authored by @katiabalabanova.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Brand new issue of Journal of Anthropological Films co-edited by Dr. Alyssa Grossman! boap.uib.no/index.php/ja...
- Professor Yannis Tzioumakis was on television again to speak about Netflix’s takeover of Warner Brothers, this time on ABC News Australia!
- Two new publications from Dr. Lyndon Way! One in the Journal of Language & Politics and another in the Encyclopedia of Political Communication www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
- Great conference coming up in June from our friends at @cceluliverpool.bsky.social
- A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
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- The department’s Dr. Richard Stupart presented at a symposium today at the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania!
- The first panel on witnessing is happening now 🚨! This morning's panelists include J. Siguru Wahutu, Richard Stupart, and Sandra Ristovska. #BeyondEndurance. @asc.upenn.edu
- Our department’s Professor Yannis Tzioumakis discussed Netflix’s $72B takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO on BBC News today! www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio...
- Ash Booth, Sustainability Manager for Picture Zero presenting about Sustainability in the Film and TV Industry for the biannual COSME Industry Seminar. Did you know that the most unsustainable area of the film and TV industry is transportation?
- The department’s Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova has been appointed as a new Non-Executive Director at the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC)! news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/12/04/c...
- New publication in Social Media + Society co-authored by Aliaksandr Herasimenka journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- The Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) is delighted to invite you to our latest Industry Seminar on Sustainability in the Film and TV Industry happen on Thursday, the 4th of December, 11:00-12:30 in the SOTA Library, 19 Abercromby Square. Register at Ticketsource link.
- Brand new publication from Dr. Lyndon way in Lingue e Linguaaggi! siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/li...
- New publication in The Geographical Journal co-authored by @antalwozniak.bsky.social!! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Dr. Antje Glück, together with Dan Jackson and An Nguyen, won the Meccsa 2025 Best Journal article of the year award. It was awarded at Meccsa conference.
- Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...
- New publication co-authored by department member Dr. Hannah Little in Public Understands of Science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- New publication in Political Communication by department members Dr. Emily Harmer and Dr. Rosalynd Southern! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- bsky.app/profile/ccel... The Centre for Culture & Everyday Life, which counts several of our faculty as members, is now on Bluesky!
- New publication in Learning, Media, and Technology from Dr. Simeon Yates, Dr. Jeanette D’Arcy, and Rebecca Harris of the department’s Digital Media and Society Institute! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Thinking of your next career move? Join our Postgraduate Online Open Week 17-21 November! 📚 Attend live sessions and get your questions answered from the comfort of your own home. Register here 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate... @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
- New publication in Gender and Education co-authored by the department’s Dr. Craig Haslop alongside Dr. Jessica Ringrose of University College London. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Dr. Alex Hardy featured in this piece about digital IDs metro.co.uk/2025/10/24/s...
- New book chapter by Dr. Richard Stupart in Navigating Trauma in African Journalism, Volume 1 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- New publication from faculty members Dr. Rudi Palmieri and Dr. Ekaterina Balabanova! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- New piece in @theconversation.com by Alex Hardy theconversation.com/as-the-uk-pl...
- Dr. Alyssa Grossman has an installation, 52 Stones: Redescriptions of a Colonial Archive, in the Out of Focus exhibition at Cologne’s Rautenstrauch-Joest Musem. The work consists of pigment prints and audio recordings in collaboration with Selena Mimball as part of the General Assn. collective.
- Our new Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Ricardo Ferreira Ribeiro is featured in the most recent Leverhulme Trust newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
- New publication from our Head of Department, Dr. Kay O’Halloran www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Congratulations to Dr Antje Glück and her co-authors for winning Journal Article of the Year at MeCCSA 2025 for their Journalism Studies article 'Fighting Against the Machine: Inside a Solutions Journalism Campaign in UK Local Newsrooms'. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ant...
