COSME PGR Conference 2024: Screen Convergences: Pasts, Presents and Futures
On the 1st May 2024, the Centre for Converged Screen Media & Entertainment (COSME) held its first Annual COSME PGR Conference. We welcomed postgraduate researchers to the School of the Arts to present their research on the theme of “Screen Convergences: Pasts, Presents, and Futures”.
In addition to PGRs from the School of the Arts, attendees came from across the UK including St Andrews, King’s College London and Birmingham City University; and internationally including Jadavpur University, India and XJTLU, China.
Keynote speaker Dr Becky Bartlett (University of Edinburgh) held two workshops that enabled attendees to explore and position their research, and reflect on their wider pedagogical practice.
Research papers were wide-ranging, taking innovative approaches to converged screen media. They ranged from curating practices in video art festivals in Indonesia, music in franchise media promotional trailers, TikTok memes and first-person perspective to film adaptations of West Side Story, live video game concerts, forgotten HBO sleeper hits of the 1980s, American-Asian 1960s star Nancy Kwan, and more.
We’re also delighted to announce that COSME awarded its inaugural £50 prize for ‘Best Paper by a PGR Student’ to MRes student Rachel Clemett (Department of Music, University of Liverpool) for her paper ‘Beyond the Jump Scare: Disability, Analog Horror, and the Sonic Shadows of the Uncanny Valley’.