<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Public Lecture - THURSDAY 24 AUGUST <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial">You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally renowned television scholar, Professor <span class="gmail-m_1472930047491493714gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_1472930047491493714gmail-il">Amanda Lotz, titled  &quot;<span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700">Evolution or Revolution?

Television in Transformation</span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>&quot;<span> <br></span></b></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span><br></span></b></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

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                                <div class="gmail-m_1472930047491493714gmail-column"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Abstract: </b>Is television in the midst of typical change</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">—</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">evolution</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">—

</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">or is something more profound occurring? This talk

explores the change and continuity characteristic of contemporary television based on the disruptions

introduced by digital distribution.<br></span></span></font>

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                                        <p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Amanda D. Lotz </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">is Professor at the University of

Michigan and Fellow at the Media Center at Peabody.

She is the author of five books including Portals: A

Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television and The

Television Will Be Revolutionized, and co-author of Understanding Media Industries and Television

Studies. Her new book, We Now Disrupt This Broadcast:

How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet

Revolutionized It All, will be released in March 2018</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span></span></font></p></div></div></div>

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Lecture to be chaired by Associate Professor Belinda Smaill from Monash University<br><br><span style="font-family:Arial"></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Date:</b><span> </span>Thursday, 24<sup>th</sup><span> </span>August 2017<span> </span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Time:<span> </span></b>5:45pm (for 6pm start)<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Place:</b><span> </span></span>Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza, 1 McArthur St, East Melbourne<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><span style="font-family:Arial">Sponsored

 by the Film and Screen Studies

 Program, the School of Media, Film and Journalism, and the Film, Media 

and Communications Graduate Research Program at Monash University<br><br></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">---<br></span><div style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dr Kirsten Stevens<br></span></b></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></span></font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></span></font><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Teaching Associate<br>Film and Screen Studies<br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Monash University<br></span></span></font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://monash.academia.edu/KirstenStevens" target="_blank">https://monash.academia.edu/KirstenStevens</a>   </span></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br></b></span></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>---New Publication</b>: Stevens, Kirsten. (2016) <i>Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place and Exhibition Culture. </i>Framing Film Festivals. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. </span></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><i><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137586377" target="_blank">http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137586377</a> </i></span><i> </i> <br></span></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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