There’s just one more day to submit your abstracts for #SAS37, taking place June 15-18 in Pittsburgh! Send us your takes on how animation can help us process extreme experiences, affect, and trauma.

Recently too often I have seen academia just giving in to students using AI for their assignments. And yet, this piece is proof that if you devote time to reason it in class and to come up with AI proof assignments, students can even be thankful for an AI ban: ukrant.nl/sprinkling-a...

The Research Colloquium in Film and Audiovisual Media is back! Check out the schedule for the upcoming semester. We have an exciting lineup of international speakers who will be sharing their latest research. @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

We can't believe it's been a week since the end of #SAS36! It was such a great event. We also can't stop thinking about the animation @joanna-quinn.bsky.social made during her keynote. Here is a version she created just for us! Thanks, Joanna!

Extremely informative panel on environmental sustainability in animation at #SAS36! @drcriformenti.bsky.social

David Sproxton, co-founder of Aardman, closes #SAS36 with his keynote talking about his career.

Joanna Quinn talking about analog vs. drawn approaches during her keynote at #SAS36.

Cristina Formenti and Misha Mihailova, co-presidents of SAS, kick off the annual general meeting! #SAS36

SAS’ Co-President Cristina Formenti takes the stage to discuss the environmental footprint of digital animation #SAS36

Our film students (@unigroningen.bsky.social / @facultyofartsug.bsky.social) run 2 film clubs, outdoing themselves in their competition. After conducting exclusive interviews w/ Peter Greenaway, Julie Delpy & Thomas Vinterberg, the other guys came up with this: www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac... Goed bezig!

Honored to have my essay “The environmental footprint of animated realism: An ecomaterialist exploration of contemporary digital animated documentaries” (@necsusjournal.bsky.social 13:1, 2024) awarded as runner-up by @baftss.bsky.social in the Best journal article/chapter category.

🎉 Congrats to prof dr Annie van den Oever and dr Cristina Formenti for winning the runner-up place for best edited volume and best article (respectively) at this year's British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies Conference! 👇 @unigroningen.bsky.social www.baftss.org/winners-pub-...

Come to Groningen to learn about THE POLITICS OF FILM in our film and contemporary audiovisual media one-year MA track!

Come to Groningen to learn about SCREEN ACTING in our film and contemporary audiovisual media one-year MA track!

End of a loong week!

Come to Groningen to learn about CONTEMPORARY COMPLEX CINEMA in our film and contemporary audiovisual media one-year MA track!

Come to Groningen to learn about CONTEMPORARY FILM AESTHETICS in our film and contemporary audiovisual media one-year MA track!

Come to Groningen to learn about ANIMATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE in our film and contemporary audiovisual media one-year MA track!

Come to Groningen to study film and contemporary audiovisual media in our one-year MA track! www.rug.nl/masters/film...

A reminder that the deadline for submitting paper/screening proposals for the 36th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference is 11:59pm GMT on Friday, January 10. CFP information here: sas2025.cargo.site/call-for-pap...

Out now… and in open access! It can be read and download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Being the international keynote speaker at a conference taking place in your own country? Done!

Happening next week!