DWFTH Conferences

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Our inaugural conference, DWFT, took place at the University of Sunderland in 2011.

The second conference, DWFTH II, included television and was held at University of East Anglia in 2014.

The third conference, DWFTH III, subtitled Structures of Feeling, took place at Leicester’s Phoenix Cinema in 2016.

The fourth conference, subtitled “Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next”, was held at the University of Southampton in 2018.

The fifth conference, subtitled Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now, was hosted online by Maynooth University, Ireland, in 2021.

The sixth conference, subtitled Changing Streams and Channels, was held by the University of Sussex in 2023.

The seventh conference, ‘Entangled Media: Past and Present’, took place at the University of Lincoln in 2025.