Our forthcoming book 'Kinotopias: Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World' now has a cover ⤵️. Coming out later this year: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kinotop.... Great collaboration with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez Torres and @silviamaresia.bsky.social.

⚡ New OA paper in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography with @silviamaresia.bsky.social, from our @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TJBKZ.... We develop the cineforum methodology as an approach for sensitive knowledge in ethnography.

From earlier this week: Irene Gutiérrez-Torres & I presenting a screening and talk about @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders, one of the final presentations of the project. Thank you NYU Steinhardt for hosting this session, which was introduced by Radha S. Hegde.

⚡ New paper in Third Text with Giacomo Toffano. In "Hybrid Aesthetics of Standby" we discuss 3 films (Flotel Europa/Havarie/Purple Sea) and how they disrupt the border spectacle through formal hybrid experimentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A very engaging student audience today at @cuny.edu during our lecture on Reel Borders with Irene Gutiérrez-Torres. Thank you @bilgeyesil.bsky.social for this opportunity!

⚡ Out now: Javnost-The Public special issue "The far-right and the politics of films, series and videogames", co-edited w @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, Omran Shroufi, Joke Bauwens & me. Full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/3...

De academie die brandhout maakte van de Vlaamse canon, de KVAB, krijgt nu de rekening gepresenteerd. Ze verliest al (!) haar subsidies in 2026. Minister-president noemt de academie (die nochtans de Vlaamse kandidaat Nobelprijswinnaars voordraagt) geen kerntaak meer. apache.be/2025/10/16/d...

New papers from the @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: on "Borderwork as artistic practice" in Geopolitics + on participatory filmmaking in Sensate. ▶️ doi.org/10.1080/1465... ▶️ sensatejournal.com/rethinking-a... By stellar team Lennart Soberon @silviamaresia.bsky.social & Irene Gutiérrez-Torres

Sending this manuscript off to @edinburghup.bsky.social today! In a few months we'll hopefully be able to share the whole thing. Great team work with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez-Torres and @silviamaresia.bsky.social #ReelBorders #kinotopias @erc.europa.eu

(1/1) New! Film Atlas (filmatlas.com) is an online encyclopedia of film as a physical medium, featuring essays + images contributed by 200+ authors from 25+ countries.

Academic freedom in the Netherlands under pressure. New report from Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences @knaw-nl.bsky.social What is needed: 🚩 stronger freedom of research 🚩 less substantive government influence 🚩 support against intimidation and attacks www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-...

De democratie wordt van alle kanten aangevallen en haar belangrijkste bewaker, de #onderzoeksjournalist, is een bedreigde soort. Daarom lanceert Apache het Fellowship Georges Timmerman. Help jij ons aan €50.000 om de opleiding van twee jonge waakhonden te financieren? Meer info op apache.be/FGT

A new article from the Reel Borders @erc.europa.eu team, published in @culturalstudies.bsky.social. Lennart Soberon reports on extensive ethnographic work and 50+ interviews, discussing post-conflict memory work in film and television. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Two vacancies in a new research project, "Home Frames", on migration history & amateur film in Belgium, funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. Come work with Gertjan Willems (UAntwerpen) and myself (VUBrussel) on this exciting topic: 🎞️ www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca... 🎞️ jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-R...

Following my research stay at the LSE, I wrote this blogpost for Media@LSE about the "afterlife" of participatory filmmaking. Thank you to @myriageorgiou.bsky.social for this opportunity & to @irenegutierrez.bsky.social for your amazing work on the films. Full text: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

Vacancy posted by great colleagues @soasuni.bsky.social. A part-time postdoc position in the project "Archives of solidarity", for visual anthropologists or media scholars: vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/643848

I wrote a book on how justice-driven documentaries teach us to listen—and how those listening habits can perpetuate injustice or bring about transformative change. Coming soon from Columbia UP, read more about it here: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-doc...

Thank you Hannah & @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the invitation & great discussion afterwards!

More than 10 years after my first @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, I'm so glad to be going to the next conference in Chicago. Looking forward to presenting Reel Borders research & reconnecting with the SCMS community 🎬

The first episode of our podcast is out! Tune in to listen to Diogo Cabral on MTH history, leafcutting ants in the Amazon, the activist nature of #envhist and on the edited volume MTH histories of Latin America and the Carribbean ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the first season of "Foraging. A podcast in Environmental Humanities" 🌱: 4 in-depth interviews with historians and anthropologists on their work, methods, inspirations ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

Oh yeah and our latest contribution is a starter pack of critical border studies related people. We haven't met too many people on here yet so the list is just a beginning. To be added contact @arijerrems.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN 7/6

As our community here slowly grows, here is a starting list of people working on critical border studies, #migration journalists, #refugee storytellers, and border abolitionists like @hebagowayed.bsky.social @vwlegal.bsky.social @vanessid.bsky.social @nsharma101.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social

Love it when film scholars are invited to contribute to social science conferences. I just had the pleasure to deliver a keynote address at the conference "Mediterranean Crossings: Rotating Politics of Migration in the Mediterranean Space" reelborders.eu/AgadirConfer...

In "Remixing Wong Kar-Wai," Giorgio Biancorosso analyzes filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s use of pre-existing music to create the soundtracks for his films. Read the introduction for free now. ow.ly/nw7e50TPNTu

And this one is for Film and Media Studies: go.bsky.app/4Ui4fk8

As promised, the Popular Culture and Media Studies starter pack! If you work in this realm and would like to be added, just let me know. :) I wanted us all to be able to find each other here. go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU

Studying migration? This new Handbook of Research Methods in Migration offers a range of hands-on approaches for the field. I contributed a chapter on visual methods. Find out more here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... (the chapter is #openaccess).

Together with Lennart Soberon, I published a new paper on border films. We analyse 43 films connected to the Irish border and develop a typology of different border mobilities. Read the full paper, open access, in the Irish Studies Review, here: doi.org/10.1080/0967....

Today I had the pleasure to present for the first time at the conference of the Radical Film Network. I presented work with Irene Gutiérrez on the use of archives in participatory filmmaking. Read more about the network here (radicalfilmnetwork.com). More info: reelborders.eu/RFN-2024-Con....

The end of another semester of teaching #filmhistory. Thank you to Cinematek for hosting our classes & to a great, critical group of students. Main lesson learned this year = bringing world politics into class is appreciated by students. See you next year for more film history! 🎬

On 24 June, the VUB will host an exceptional lecture by Prof. dr. Kwame Appiah. Join us if you happen to be in Brussels, attendance is free but registration is mandatory, more info here: clic.research.vub.be/speaking-of-...

A highlight of my film history course: visiting the Royal Film Archive of Belgium and its restoration lab with the students. Beautiful moment face to face with the original Chantal Akerman #JeanneDielman negatives #filmhistory

ABCeuta is online! This "alphabet of the border" of 26 short videos was made with 13 domestic workers who share their stories about lives affected by the border. On #WomensDay we share their stories & launch a petition. Find out more: abceuta.film. Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/por-favor-...

We are very grateful for the large turnout and thought-provoking questions we received during our inaugural event. 🙏 FORAGENCY will soon enter another stage, with new team members, research methods and questions. Stay tuned!

New publication in Emotion, Space & Society. With Silvia Almenara-Niebla, we report on ethnographic fieldwork conducted on the Irish border, and develop the cineforum method, a participatory visual elicitation method using film. Summary and link: reelborders.eu/EmotionSpace...

If you are in Brussels, you can explore the unexpected and rich histories of Belgian cinema, through 11 lectures and screenings. From February to May at Cinema RITCS. All information www.cinemaritcs.be/the-power-of.... I'll present animation film + "Taxandria" by Raoul Servais 🎦

Refugee Hybrid Fiction. New #OpenAccess paper published with Giacomo Toffano in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture. Based a mapping of 98 cases, we argue for a politics of hybridity in media and migration that challenges conventional regimes of representation. Access: doi.org/10.1386/cjmc...

We are hiring !! 🔔 FORAGENCY is looking for a postdoc in Anthropology on past and present curative uses of the environment in Central Africa euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/172734 2 years, renewable for 2 further years, flex start date 1/04-1/10, do not hesitate to spread the word!

How do films reflect physical and symbolic borders between communities? We explore this with students in Adana in our participatory filmmaking workshop on the Turkish-Syrian border. So exciting to see them in action and see stories emerge. More information on www.reelborders.eu

job alert 🚨 I am hiring a post-doc working me on the securitization of irregular migration across the Mediterranean: pica.cineca.it/unime/adr-23...

Awesome: our Reel Borders shorts from the Irish border are now available on Northern Ireland Screen's digital archive: digitalfilmarchive.net/collection/r... Social sciences + creativity + impact = ⚡⚡

Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

As part of Reel Borders, we organise #cineforums to discuss border stories and memories. Here are some impressions of yesterday in Samandağ (Hatay), with the solidarity initiative started after the earthquake. Film, talking and LOTS of çay. More info on www.reelborders.eu

Hello & happy to introduce myself. I'm a media and cultural studies scholar working on migration, borders, conflict. I've worked a lot on Turkey and diasporic communities. Current project www.reelborders.eu deals with film & border relations. Passions include 🎬🪴🌈🚲 + why is there no 'equality' emoji?