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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-right:-.25pt;text-align:center;
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on Television and the National<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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2008)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;font-weight:bold'>Convened by La <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Trobe</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and the Project for Australian Television History (PATH), an Initiative of the
Cultural Research Network. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;font-weight:bold'>For information about registration:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/cinema/conf_tv-national/index.html<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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none'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>This conference builds on the Television Studies
conference (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Queensland</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, Brisbane
2000) and the Television History Conference (Powerhouse, Sydney 2005). It aims
to bring researchers together to discuss a broad range of topics in the
following strands:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>· </span></font><font
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>television
history and historiography<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>· </span></font><font
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>television
and the national<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>· </span></font><font
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>television
and the transnational<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>· </span></font><font
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>television
and genre<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>· </span></font><font
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>television
comedy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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none'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Issues to be addressed include but are not
limited to: new approaches to television historiography; the extent to which
television history is bound up with the national (in terms of audiences,
ratings, formats, critical reception, popular memory, policy, regulation); the
proposition that some television genres, such as comedy, variety, sport and
current affairs, are less likely to join the global flow of television than
others; the extent to which international trade in television formats is
underpinned by ideas of the trans/national. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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