📢CFP📢 « La nostalgie n’est plus ce qu’elle était » : Uses and constructions of nostalgia in film and television International conference – Université Bordeaux Montaigne 30th March-1st April 2026 Submission deadline: 19th December 2025

📢Forthcoming New Connections talk📢 Dr Yunzi Han, "What if we temporarily move beyond the patriarchal paradigm? A gendered reading of the gestational journey in Iranian film Heiran (dir. Shalizeh Arefpour, 2009)" 24/06/25, University of Sheffield www.baftss.org/new-connecti... @baftss.bsky.social

📢Forthcoming New Connections talks📢 - Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, "Watch and Learn: Film and British Education (c. 1900)" (30/04) - Dr David Melbye, "Evolution of Horror Jazz: African American Music in Postwar British Crime Cinema" (6/05) www.baftss.org/new-connecti... @baftss.bsky.social

I was thrilled to contribute to the Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical, edited by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh and Colleen Montgomery, now available online and soon in print. Looking forward to discovering the impressive and fascinating range of contributions! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The 2025 BAFTSS New Connections programme is starting next week with Dr Beth Pyner's talk, hosted by the Centre for Screen Cultures and the St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies. More info: www.baftss.org/new-connecti... Sponsored by @manchesterup.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social

Are you attending #BAFTSS2025 today and looking to make plans for dinner? There is information about on-campus and other nearby food and drink outlets here: sites.google.com/view/baftss-...

Next week at the @baftss.bsky.social conference (University of Warwick)! Hybrid roundtable open to all BAFTSS members on Wednesday 26th March, 10am. Theme: "Grant Applications & Post-doc Roles". To attend online, make sure to register. Further details: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

The 2025 @baftss.bsky.social New Connections Schedule is now available! Showcasing research undertaken by ECRs in Film, Media and Screen Studies, providing them with bursaries to present their work to new audiences. Thanks to our sponsor Manchester University Press www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

Are you a BAFTSS member attending next month's conference, but have limited/no access to funding? @baftss.bsky.social offers 5 bursaries of £200 to help with travel & other costs. More info: www.baftss.org/funding.html And don't forget the Quarterly Travel Fund to access support for other events!

@manchesterup.bsky.social has renewed its support for the BAFTSS New Connections Fund! Each ECR/academic on a fixed-term contract benefitting from the scheme in 2025 will receive a book voucher. To benefit from the Fund, there is still time to apply! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/01...

📢DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY📢 The BAFTSS New Connections Fund supports ECRs/academics on fixed-term contracts planning to present their work in a research seminar/workshop in 2025, providing £150 bursaries towards travel/research costs. Also, book vouchers offered by our sponsor @manchesterup.bsky.social📚

I was lucky enough to be chosen for the New Connections programme last year. It's a great way to share research and the help with travel/funding costs meant I could go to London to share my work.

Please think about putting in for this www.BAFTSS.org fund. The application window closes on 31 January. If you’d like to share your research with a new audience, this is a great scheme designed to enable the beginning of a beautiful academic friendship. (Sorry.)

[📢EXTENDED DEADLINE 31/01📢] BAFTSS New Connections Fund is aimed at ECR/academics on fixed-term contracts presenting their research in Film/Media/Screen Studies as part of seminar series/research talks, providing bursaries of £150 to help support travel/research costs www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

The website for the 2025 Society for Animation Studies Conference is now live! The conference will take place in London between 7-10 July 2025. Please be reminded that the deadline for paper/screening proposals is January 10, 2025! sas2025.cargo.site @anistudies.bsky.social #SAS #Animation

Part IX: book reviews! In the first, Laura O'Flanagan reviews Eve Benhamou's "Contemporary Disney Animation Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-contemp...) "an excellent book which should interest scholars of film and media history". intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

BAFTSS is now inviting proposals for next academic year’s ‘New Connections' Programme: a series of research talks at universities across the UK. Of interest for early career researchers and academics on fixed-term contracts: bursaries available. Further info: www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

I was delighted to see that my monograph "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (EUP, 2022) has been reviewed in the very 1st issue of The International Journal of Disney Studies by Laura O'Flanagan. intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...