The program looks absolutely incredible. Congrats to the organizers! Wish I could attend.

The Hollywood Conference is just over a week away and we have our full schedule up on our website. It's going to be so much fun (for an academic conference)! #HWC25 thehollywoodconference.com

I won’t be attending #LASA2025 but happy to see my book TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA SOLIDARITY at the @ucpress.bsky.social stand. Friends who’ll be there: check it out and take a photo for me!

I was there and it was incredible! Kudos to Beth Tsai who did the translation for all these events ❤️

Happy to have been awarded a small ACLS Project Development Grant! They're especially valuable for scholars working in teaching intensive universities. All the more grateful given the current dismantling of the federal agencies that fund research in the arts&humanities www.acls.org/news/acls-aw...

It's publication day! TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA SOLIDARITY is now officially out by @ucpress.bsky.social. Use code UCPSCMS at checkout and save 40% www.ucpress.edu/books/transn...

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

Earlier today, lively round table to talk about methods, digital labor, supply chains, projectionists, transnationalisms, inter-Asia exchanges, nighttime, and more. Kudos to chairs Kartik Nair, Chenshu Zhou + an all-star panel #scms25

First #scms25 panel this morning: solidarity filmmaking. David Fresko on the Newsreel films about the Black Panther Party.

If the rumored gutting of the NEH is indeed happening (and I wouldn’t be surprised- it felt inevitable in the last few weeks) it will mean that an already deeply inadequate funding situation for the humanities will become reduced to almost nothing

The Davis Faculty Association's letter today: "Compliance will not save our institutions. The UC system must continue to stand by its stated values and refuse to enable the targeting of students for imprisonment and deportation for their political views." ucdfa.org/2025/03/call...

The book exists and advance copies have arrived! You can pre-order TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA SOLIDARITY from @ucpress.bsky.social with discount code UCPSAVE30 shorturl.at/Z66TI. Official publication date is April 22!

Just announced: Block Cinema hosts an offsite screening of THE WAITING ROOM, Karen Sperling's dreamlike narrative feature shot inside a mental institution by a 53-woman crew in 1973 and never released. Filmmaker in attendance! Screening 4/3 at Abbott Hall in downtown Chicago. RSVP bit.ly/NUSperl

The screening of YOU BURN ME last week at @amcinematheque.bsky.social was truly unique. The film was mesmerizing & Piñeiro brought gadgets to talk about analog editing, Pavese, a literary text's resistance to adaptation, collaborative modes of film production & more.