Call for Papers HoMER 2026: Cinema Communities and Community Cinemas University of Exeter, UK | 8–10 July 2026 Pre-conference: 7 July 2026 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: 19 January 2026. Further information: Dr Matthew Rule-Jones — [email protected]

IAMHIST has released the CFP for its 2026 Master Class: iamhist.net/iamhist-mast...

Dear HoMERites, The dates of the 2026 HoMER conference at the University of Exeter, UK. We will have a pre-conference day on 7th July, with the main conference commencing on 8th and ending on 10th July. CFP to follow. Best wishes, Matthew Rule-Jones and Talitha Ferraz (HoMER coordinators).

Dear Homerites, Please join us for a webinar from TAP (The Audience Project research group, Oxford Brookes University) on Fri. 12 Sept. 2025 at 12-1pm: "The Enchanting Kinora: Researching Edwardian Audiences," by Prof. Elizabeth Evans, University of Nottingham. Abstract & link in comments.

Go to drive.google.com/drive/folder... and share your pictures! 📸🎞📽🎬

HoMER's recent AGM set up three working groups on: 1) A new hosting platform for the HoMER website; 2) A mapping project; 3) New administrative models for the HoMER Network. Interested in one or more? Fill out this form by 4 August 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

After a wonderfully hospitable, engaged and thought-provoking conference in İstanbul, we look forward to continuing our conversations in Exeter next year!

Reposting: See the light of our dossier of the Rebeca Magazine "Looking at the cinema audiences in Latin America", co-edited by @arosasmantecon, Bianca Pires and who speaks to them. Articles in Spanish & Portuguese. rebeca.socine.org.br/1/article/vi... Thanks to all who worked to get this out!

#HoMERIstanbul2025 roundtable on Cinema and Palestine, with contributions from Ifdal Elsaket, Philippe Meers, Tamara Maatouk, Jeremy Randall, Claire Begbie and Ílke Şanlıer.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 Morgan Corriou, Caroline Damiens, Mélisande Leventopoulos and Judith Thissen discuss Alternative Tracks in Distribution and Exhibition.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 AydınÇam, Çiğdem Aksu Çam, Aynühayat Uybadın, Josh Carney and Sonay Ban discuss Power Struggles in Cinema, especially in relation to censorship.

Always a conference highlight: @homer-network.bsky.social's annual conference, this year in Istanbul, Turkey. I'm very happy to be here.

Here's more from our panel yesterday at #HoMERIstanbul2025! Thank you also to our panel chair, the fantastic Ana Rosas Mantecón, a long-term friend and associated member of the "Hollywood Memories" project! @kathleenloock.bsky.social @homer-network.bsky.social

#HoMERIstanbul2025 Senem Duruel Erkılıç, Karen Smith, Ariana Vietina and Berceste Gülçın Özdemir discuss Cinema Spaces and Urban Transformation.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 : Mélisande Leventopoulos, Özge Özyılmaz, Barçın Boğaç, Shakila Zamboulingame and Enes Akdağ discuss Cinema, Identity and Borders.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 is officially launched by Talitha Ferraz, Matthew Rule-Jones and Ayşe Tor Par.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 is underway with preconference workshops on the HoMER Vocabulary, mapping and postgraduate presentations.

Homerites interested in hosting the 2026 HoMER Conference: submit proposals to HoMER Network coordinators Matthew Jones ([email protected]) & Talitha Ferraz ([email protected]) by 9 July (Istanbul time zone, GMT+3). AGM delegates will make the decision on 11 July.

At the HoMER Istanbul Conference, we will elect coordinators for the 2026-2028 period. Interested members should fill out the following form by 1pm on 11 July (Istanbul time, GMT+3): forms.gle/nfvJsP23qgWQ.... Check your email for further information. See also: homernetwork.org/about/

CFP: Cinema Audiences in Latin America and the Caribbean (in Portuguese and Spanish) Públicos de Cine en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (Portugués y Español). Rebeca (Brazilian Journal of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies). Deadline extended to 04/03/2025. rebeca.socine.org.br/1/announceme...

SAVE THE DATE: HoMER data sprint on 22 January 2025 at 15:00-17:00 UTC+1 (Amsterdam time), to fill in missing definitions and translations in the HoMER vocabulary on venues. See the current state of the vocabulary here: homernetwork.github.io/vocabulary/v... And SAVE THE DATE: 22 January 2025.

Screen RE-turns: Screen Studies Conference 2025: We are delighted to announce our two keynote speakers (who themselves return to Screen): Professor Annette Kuhn, Professor Helen Wheatley tinyurl.com/5wcwx732

Deadline approaching (2 Dec) for the 2025 Women and Film History International conference's “Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema.” The conference will take place in Brussels from June 11-14, 2025 More details here: www.wfhi.org/2025-brussel....

Just published: Michael Aronson's book on regional independent film exhibition in the American Pacific Northwest during the silent and early sound periods focuses on independent entrepreneur, John Hamrick. 📷 Learn more and order your copy 📷 www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/joh...

The HoMER Network is on Bluesky and ready to connect with anybody interested in cinema history! go.bsky.app/57JuzaS

HoMER 2025 Conference: Cinema and Conflict. Dates: 8-11 July 2025. Location: Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey. Proposals deadline: 19 January 2025. Letters of acceptance/rejection: 17 February 2025. More details: homernetwork.org/annual-confe... Submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/199RW_