This week in the @iamhist.bsky.social Blog, we have two pieces reporting on the 2025 IAMHIST Conference! 1) is authored by Cecilia Avorkliyah: iamhist.net/iamhist-conf... & 2) is co-written by Storm Sadovsky and Leah Dennis: iamhist.net/iamhist-conf... We hope to see you at future events! ❤️

Open call for thematic issues of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: For further details and how to apply, please visit 👉 iamhist.net/call-for-pro... ✍️

Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television - Updated list of books for review, Winter 2025/26: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please get in touch with Dr Veronica Johnson, Book Reviews Editor, ([email protected]) if you would like to review any of the listed titles 🌟

@iamhist.bsky.social Symposium 2026 = AI and the Creative Media: Heritage, Production, Distribution and Reception, hosted by @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu on 6 February. Details and programme 👉 iamhist.net/iamhist-symp... 😍

For the latest @iamhist.bsky.social Blog, Mark Williams (Dartmouth College) writes an overview of the Media Ecology Project, promoting the study of archival and historical moving image collections: iamhist.net/media-ecolog...

Winter list of books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television published today: iamhist.net/journal/#boo...

***Call for Papers*** IAMHIST Master Class 2026: iamhist.net/iamhist-mast... The Master Class will be hosted in Luxembourg on Thursday 5 February, followed by a one-day symposium on 'AI and the Creative Media: Heritage, Production, Distribution and Reception' on Friday 6 February. Deadline: 15/12/25

Did some writing. My latest article, ‘“The Delight of Real Boys”: Male Role Models in the Silent-Era “Boys’ Cinema Weekly” Fan Paper’, is out now in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @iamhist.bsky.social

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New books for review (Autumn 2025) in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please contact our book reviews editor, Veronica Johnson, of books you are interested in reviewing ❤

This week in the IAMHIST Blog, Andrew Shail and Marie-Claire Rackham-Mann delve into the concept of falsehood as presented live on national UK television, with a focus on the case study of 'Alice Hyde: The First "Miss World"': iamhist.net/alice-hyde-t...

My review of Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas has been published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television. It is a terrific book, and you can read my review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @tandfonline.bsky.social @iamhist.bsky.social

IAMHIST is pleased to announce that Dan Chyutin and Yael Mazor have co-edited a special issue on 'Israeli Film Culture Through its Paratexts', in the Journal of Jewish Identities, developed via the @iamhist Challenge: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/issue/... Congratulations! 🥳

Are you an emerging filmmaker/creative who loves archive film? The Reuters Screenocean Make Film History Challenge gives access to over 1 million archive clips for creative reuse in a new short film that could screen at next year’s festival in 2026. Details: www.sheffdocfest.com/reuters-scre...

Final panel of #IAMHIST2025 for Day 2,'Colonial Reels & the PanAfrican Cinema Archive: Critical Disruptions of Archives of Empire' with Imruh Bakari, Emma Sandon, Jihan El-Tahri, June Givanni, Samantha Iwowo and Jacqueline Maingard

Two fantastic papers on African horror cinema and celebrity, media platforms and depression in the global South. - given by Gabi Zietsman and Viraj Suprasad. @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025

@iamhist.bsky.social @llewellachapman.bsky.social gives a fascinating paper on the gendered game design of #LaraCroft #TombRaider #iamhist2025

For the panel, 'Colonialism & Popular Onscreen Narratives', we have Gabi Zietsman writing on 'Africa Will Eat You Alive': Cultural Iconographies in African Horror Films'

Beginning Day 2 at the #IAMHIST2025 conference, Ciara, Chambers discusses 'De-partitioning Ireland: How Archival Appropriation is Challenging the Irish Question'

Great panel on British television and British television archives covering Early channel 4 short films, the Michael Palin Archive and Grandma television @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025

To finish the first day, a screening of Nariman Massoumi's Pouring Water on Troubled Water ❤️ #IAMHIST2025

Now for the panel 'Once Upon A Time in Television: UK TV History', beginning with an extended talk by a Rod Stoneman on Early Channel 4

A really fascinating Approaches to Archives panel @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025 with papers on A.I and decolonising the Archive, the work of Student interns at the #UCT archives, AIDS research at UCT archives and wildlife docs, wedish, restoration death cleaning and the archive

Fascinating to paper from Julie Raviri on conflicting cultural and personal memories and perceptions of Cape Town's District 6. Good to have a couple of excellent conference book recommendations too #iamhist25 #iamhist2025 #capetown @iamhist.bsky.social

Parallel panel sessions begin for #IAMHIST2025 ❤️ Panel 'Navigating Historical Spaces' begins with Julie Raviri discussing 'The History of District Six Told by its Former Inhabitants'

Day 1 of the 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices' @iamhist.bsky.social Conference at the University of Cape Town 📻🎙️📺 Such a pleasure to be in South Africa for our biannual event! Looking forward to a packed programme. Thanks to @marthaevans.bsky.social for organising it!

#iamhist25 @iamhist.bsky.social First keynote by Sekibakiba Lekgoathi on the role of radio in the liberation of Apartheid South Africa

Welcome to our opening keynote speaker, Sekibakiba Lekgoathi, speaking on 'Radio Freedom, Sonic Archives, African Solidarity & the Liberation Struggle in South Africa'! #IAMHIST2025

@iamhist.bsky.social 2025 in #CapeTown begins. #iamhist2025

Huge thank you to @marthaevans.bsky.social and our colleagues at UCT / Centre for Film & Media Studies for organising #IAMHIST2025!

Start of #IAMHIST2025 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices'! Hello to all our of delegates @ University of Cape Town @ Centre for Film & Media Studies

Congrats to Ross Melnick, whose book, HOLLYWOOD'S EMBASSIES: HOW MOVIE THEATERS PROJECTED AMERICAN POWER AROUND THE WORLD is the winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize for 2024 from the International Association for Media and History. bit.ly/4mYHC9F @iamhist.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

*IAMHIST News*: Ross Melnick is the winner of the Culbert Family Memorial Book Prize 2024 for his publication Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)! Huge congratulations Ross 🥳 iamhist.net/winner-culbe...

*IAMHIST News* Updated Summer 2025 books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please contact Veronica Johnson should you be interested in reviewing a particular title ([email protected])

Call for Candidates - IAMHIST Council Election 2025: For further details, please visit iamhist.net/call-for-can... Deadline for expressions of interest to the Election Committee is 10 April 2025.

Registration now open for the IAMHIST Conference, 'Decentering Media Histories and Practices', 30 June - 2 April 2025 hosted by the University of Cape Town ❤ Looking forward to seeing those who can make it there: iamhist.net/registration...

Huge congratulations to Nora Patterson for being awarded the @iamhist.bsky.social-Michael Nelson Book Prize in 2025, for Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution (Illinois University Press, 2024)! ❤️ iamhist.net/iamhist-mich...

The International Association for Media and History (@IAMHIST.bsky.social) just joined Bluesky! Highly recommend anyone interested in #media #history and #archives to follow them!

For the first piece published in the @iamhist.bsky.social Blog this year, Enes Akdağ (Üsküdar University, Turkey), writes on on the innovative cinema manager, Leon Sirochkin, who historically managed cinema halls in Istanbul/Kadıköy: iamhist.net/sirochkin-of...