Events
Research Seminar: The Trauma Machine: Reality Television, Bureaucracies of Care and the Regime of ‘Crisis Ordinariness’
This event forms part of the Research Seminar Series in the School of Media and Communication.
'Can We Have a Democratic National Conversation?' with Professor Stephen Coleman
The School's Media, Power and Publics Research Theme invites you to a book talk by Professor Stephen Coleman on his new publication, ‘Shaping Citizenship through Talk Radio’ (Intellect, 2026).
Science into Pop: Triangulating Legitimacy in Three Experimental Music Traditions
How can the case of Jamaican dub reggae broaden our understanding of music experimentation?
Research Seminar: Environmental Activism and Digital Communication: Scaling, Space, and the Limits of Transnational Solidarity
The talk explores how digital communication shapes environmental activism across local, national, and transnational levels, sometimes undermining rather than strengthening transnational solidarity
The Algorithm Will See You Now: Theratainment and the Digital Commodification of Mental Health
From Oprah to TherapyTok, this interactive talk explores how mental health becomes entertainment, why therapists turn to social media, and what happens when care depends on commercial visibility.
SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers
A history of how computers came to shape political imagination, from election forecasting to AI in the United States, and what that history tells us about democracy today.
Research Seminar: Authoritarian Dispositions and the Politics of AI
People with stronger authoritarian attitudes have more trust in AI and higher support for AI-enabled governance.
- One day event
- Reoccuring events