Chair: Iiris Ruoho (University of Tampere) and Viola Milton (University of South Africa)
- Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin) and Heloisa Pait (UNESP Marilia, Brazil): Balancing political economy and cultural studies: Creating the social - critical telenovela in Brazil
- viola C milton (University of South Africa) and Winston Mano (University of Westminster, UK): Afro-ish – Cultural trauma, man on ground and the political economy of globalization
- Ying Zhu (City University of New York, College of Staten Island, USA): China’s cultural war against the West
- · Iiris Ruoho (University of Tampere, Finland) and Jie Gao (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Anxiety and utopian sensibility: Media professionals in the Chinese TV drama Cell Phone
- · Beschara Karam (University of South Africa): The politics of identity, culture, and trauma in Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Chappie’ (2015)
- Liani Maasdorp (University of Cape Town) Character, memory & landscape in a selection of recent South African documentary films
