The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.

In my latest academic publication I propse to supplement the concept of dated film (Jamie Baron), which encompasses cultural and aesthetic datedness, by ideological datedness. Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”. 1/2 #academicbluesky culturecrossroads.lv/index.php/cc...

Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]

sold out both!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social but @columbiaup.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social have got all your fatal laughter AND historicist crisis needs covered!!!! cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b... www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

Spotted at the #IlCinemaRitrovato FilmFair!!! 🎊🎞️📚 @nwbaer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Looking forward to the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference tomorrow!!!! If you're in Lisbon, come to our panel on Feminist Film Practices & Historical Recovery (in the C10 spot!). 🎞️❤️ necs.org/conference

excited for the NECS conference in Lisbon! Join us tomorrow (Thursday, June 19) at 9:00 for a workshop on "Creative Reuse: Navigating the Archive" with Deniz Göktürk, Grazia Ingravalle, Alexandra Schneider, and Jaap Verheul as well as a video essay by Ritika Kaushik! necs.org/conference

tenured and promoted to associate professor! deeply grateful for the intellectual engagement and labor of so many colleagues at Berkeley and well beyond.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.

Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!

honored to keynote the 20th CMS grad student conference at UChicago next weekend on “Failing Media." Join us for two days of panels along with a faculty roundtable and performance by Gibson + Recoder. Many thanks to Hugo Ljungbäck and Nat Modlin for organizing! voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/

Every year goes by too quickly! We're here for a few more hours at #SCMS25 so drop by for one last chance to view our latest books in cinema and media studies. Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...

#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics www.aup.nl/en/book/9789.... You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!

Standing room only at the Technics roundtable!! #SCMS25 @nwbaer.bsky.social

Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.

From Carrie

Friends in Philly: I'll be sharing my work at Penn this Wednesday at noon. Would love to see you there! cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

Linda Williams led a truly extraordinary life—a model of fearless inquiry, principled struggle, and joie de vivre. I'm grateful beyond measure for her pathbreaking scholarship and rigorous mentorship over the years. Her words continue to resonate.

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

Definitely time for a new edition.

Today today today, Berkeley folx!

Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024). events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...

The great intellectual historian Anson Rabinbach, passed away a few days ago in Rome after a fall. The folks over at the George Mosse Program in Wisconsin have set up an online page to capture memories and reminiscences for friends and family. It is available here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@bampfa.bsky.social welcomes filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa for a residency from January 30–February 8. Join us for a Mosse lecture and seven screenings. Loznitsa and I will discuss his harrowing documentary Babi Yar. Context (2021) this Friday, January 31, at 2:30 pm. bampfa.org/program/serg...

it was super invigorating being in conversation with Donna Jones on Weimar cinema, crisis, and historical pessimism at Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. The recording is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeO-...

Pierre Sorlin, the trailblazing historian of cinema, has passed at 91. Minuscule of stature, he was an intellectual giant and incredibly generous colleague and mentor. Gifted with a photographic memory, he had a habit of reciting his written papers from memory rather than reading from a print-out.

Mladen Dolar, Rumors (2025)

“One of the worst things one can do with any body of theory is to hold it up to the problems of our present time and conclude that if the theory doesn’t furnish a wholly satisfactory response to all of them, it should be discarded as obsolete.” www.thenation.com/article/cult...