This Friday! Register now for link.

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On my way to AMIA! Excited to hear about all the amazing work archivists are doing in the field.

Friends! This week, Rowan's Gender Affirming Wardrobe project is running a fundraising campaign at giving.rowan.edu/project/48526. If you can, maybe toss in a couple bucks to help this project organize donations and buy things that don't/shouldn't get donated (like binders and makeup).

This promises to be an interesting discussion. Please join us!

This promises to be an interesting discussion. Please join us!

This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social

Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

Had the pleasure of chatting with my friend Anita Afonu before seeing "The Eyes of Ghana" at Doc NYC yesterday. Not only does she appear in the film championing Ghanaian film preservation, she worked as a producer on the film. You can watch "Eyes of Ghana" online until Nov. 30 here: lnkd.in/egCNfxxP

New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100

Now available online! A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide! Available in print in early 2026. academic.oup.com/book/61621

The Gilded Age is an absolutely ridiculous show…and I’ve watched every minute of it. By far, its most trenchant social analysis is the scene where Ms Thing goes to Brooklyn to perform her little conspicuous condescending charity. I think of those shoes all the time.

If you are in San Francisco this weekend, please go see "The Eyes of Ghana" on Saturday, Nov. 8 @ 11am at the Vogue Theater! Tickets and more information here: sffilm.org/event/the-ey...

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

With a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas guest edited by @jennblaylock.bsky.social, Anita Afonu and Dan Hodgkinson, the lastest edition of Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies, is now out! journals.openedition.org/sources/?lan...

Check out the new issue of Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies co-edited by Anita Afonu, Dan Hodgkinson, and I. Excited to see these essays and their accompanying sources finally make it out into the world. @kinolaus.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/sources/3100

💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

⭐️Poetics and Politics returns to UC Santa Cruz! Organized by my wonderful colleagues. CFP below. Join us in the redwoods!⭐️ poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu

Thank you so much to @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social for hosting this virtual book launch!

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Committee for the First Amendment in 1947 looking good

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website! Join us in New Orleans this February! blackmedia.tulane.edu

"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Thrilled the documentary 'The Eyes of Ghana' opened the Toronto Film Festival last week. It features the work of Chris Hesse and Anita Afonu to preserve Ghana's film heritage. After collaborating with them for years, I'm excited to see them celebrated on the big screen. deadline.com/video/the-ey...

I agree. Great doc.

Has someone made a short, approachable video about the ills of AI? There's lots of great written resources I could assign students, but I think showing them something in class might be more effective.

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

A few more hours to apply for membership fee waiver! @scmstudies.bsky.social

I worked on a digitisation project around a decade ago. Earlier this year, I found that host organisation subsequently lost the digital files, but the physical archive (which was also restored in the project) is still there.

I will never forget watching Bushman (1971) this evening in Lagos. Watching a film about a Nigerian living in 1968 San Francisco, with images of the Bay that brought me back to a region that will forever be my home, I felt like I was crisscrossing through time and space with the film’s circulations.

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I was so honored to be part of this group researching in the Sembène and Vieyra archives this summer. Olivier Barlet's insightful recount of the workshop is captured here: africultures.com/a-la-decouve...

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

@annarosestamm.bsky.social so great to see you talk about your research on local television women’s shows!

On my way to @cp25atlanta.bsky.social. This is my first time attending and I’m super excited!

What are the African values and ethical theories that can inform responsible data science practices in Africa?...We conduct a thematic analysis [and]...derived an ethical framework consisting of six major principles rooted in the realities of data science work in Africa arxiv.org/html/2502.16...

Just deleted Instagram. Feeling good!

Are you a media studies graduate student invested in pedagogy? Do you want to get more involved in @scmstudies.bsky.social? If so, consider nominating yourself to serve as our next grad rep! I'm a former chair and currently on the broader SIG steering committee and happy to answer any Qs.

On my way to @icahdq.bsky.social for the first time ever.

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

Being involved with @scmspedagogy.bsky.social over the past several years and now working as co-chair with the amazing @stephbrown.bsky.social has been a professional highlight for me. Please consider joining us, as grad student rep, in advocating for transformative pedagogy in our field.

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.

Film at Indiana University’s Auxiliary Library Facilities (ALF).

This was so fun to write! Using Du Bois and reconstruction to talk about how media could help us survive authoritarianism.

Ousmane Sembène’s pipe collection @ the Lilly Library.

Today’s research vibes at the Black Film Center/Archives.