The Film Studies Department at King’s College London is a leading centre for research on all aspects of cinema, from its earliest days to the present, and branching into related screen-based technologies, including television, online media, and artists’ film and video. 

Join us at one of our research seminars presented by speakers who specialise in film. 

Upcoming Seminars list 24/25:

SEMESTER 1

16 October 2024
Victoria Pistivsek (King’s College London): “Politics, Power, and Piss: Abject Masculinityin Succession” Chair: Jeff Scheible

23 October
Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield): “Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno- history” Chair: Jinhee Choi

6 November
David Wood (UCL/National Autonomous University of Mexico): “For a free-flowing documentary: UNESCO, internationalist montage and the Third-World episode film in the 1950s-60s”
Chair: Mark Betz

20 November
Catherine Grant (Independent Scholar): “Finding Pictures for Found Voices? Videographic Criticism and its Intersections with Film Studies Oral History Research”
Chair: Tom Brown

4 December
Kathleen Loock (Leibniz University Hannover): “Remaking the Past: Hollywood, Memory, and Movie Generations” 
Chair: Iain Smith

5 December
BFI Key Scholars in Film Studies, BFI Southbank (time TBC)
Steve Choe (San Francisco State University): “Laugh Together, Weep Alone: Korean Cinema’s Ethical Ambiguities” 

SEMESTER 2

22 January 2025
James Cahill (University of Toronto): “Neither Dog nor Master”
Chair: Sarah Cooper

5 February
Susana Viegas (University of Lisbon): Title TBC
Professor,DChair: Catherine Wheatley

12 February
Roy Grundmann (Boston University): “Floating Signifiers: Ocean Liners as Filmic Objects” 
Chair: Rosalind Galt 

26 February
Grazia Ingravalle (Queen Mary University of London): Title TBC
Chair: Erica Carter

19 March
Book event (King’s College London) Participants and titles TBC