Ian Conrich

Ian Conrich, PhD, FRSA, FRAI, FRAS, FRHistS is an Associate Professor of Film at Stockholm University and an Honorary Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Vienna. He is a theorist and historian with work in film, media and popular culture. The author or editor of eighteen books he has also curated film festivals, cultural programmes, museum exhibitions, and international conferences. In 2008 he was named Air New Zealand New Zealander of the Year in the UK for education leadership, whilst the Times Higher Education has described him as "the driving force behind New Zealand Studies in the UK". Ian has been a guest speaker at Harvard University, University of California Berkley, and the Universities of Auckland and Hawai'i. He was the 2005 MacGeorge Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne, 2005-6 was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 2001 a Visiting Scholar at the University of Waikato. Most recently, in 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar at University of Ss Cyril and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia.