Our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia – British Latinx Writing & Art, is available to preorder now!
Guest edited by Leo Boix & Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American & Latinx communities.
What an amazing way to mark nine years of the Colombian peace process: fascinating conversation with @andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social on his new memoir and a wonderful performance from Magda Angelica, followed by discussion with an engaged and diverse audience. Thanks to all involved!
Thanks to all the authors, the peer reviewers, and our amazing editor-in-chief, Laura Rascaroli (@alphavillej.bsky.social).
It has been a treasured project for both of us, and we hope you accept the invitation to “come” to Latin America with us.
www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue2930.html
These are the 11 articles included in the special issue: a wide range of topics from sexuality and indigenous cinema to
The issue also includes this article about Apichatpong's Memoria.
www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue2930/HT...
If you're interested, you can also listen to the Alphaville podcast episode in which we talk about the origin of this project, the questions we wanted to explore, and the research themes we hope to continue working on.
www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue2930.html
I am elated to finally share this special issue that @lawrencealexander.bsky.social and I have prepared!
We wrote an editorial discussing some of the main themes and introducing the fantastic contributions by 13 authors.
www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue2930.html
@alphavillej.bsky.social
If you're interested, you can also listen to the Alphaville podcast episode in which we talk about the origin of this project, the questions we wanted to explore, and the research themes we hope to continue working on.
www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue2930.html
DEADLINE APPROACHING
A few more days to send your submissions for this year's Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!
📎 REMINDER about SLAS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES📎
SLAS has increased the budgets and remits for its funding schemes to offer better support to its members.
The following SLAS Grants have deadlines in October:
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The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!
Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication
MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...
Join us @clascam.bsky.social for a one-day symposium on Visual Activisms in the Southern Cone. With talks from Nayla Vacarezza, Erika Teichert, Anna Corrigan; and a film screening of Piotr Cieplak’s (Dis)Appear.
1pm-7pm, Friday 21 November @cam.ac.uk.
Register below! 📸 🎥
Great opportunity for Graduate Students working on queer and trans screen media.
More information about our annual @scmsqtc.bsky.social Chris Holmlund Prize is below.
I wrote a text about Arturo Ripstein’s groundbreaking El lugar sin límites (1978) for Muestra Arder, a series of screenings of Latin American cuir films in Brazil.
You can read my text and the other amazing contributions here: drive.google.com/file/d/1SfHH...
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Call for Papers: Rethinking Weimar Cinema (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026) Keynote Speakers: Dr Paul Dobryden (University of Virginia) Dr Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois Chicago) Dr Qinna Shen (Bryn Mawr College) Film Screenings: TBC, in collaboration with the Ultimate Picture Palace and Weimar 100 Organizers: Dr Lawrence Alexander (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) and Dr Molly Harrabin (University of St. Andrews/University of Warwick). Deadline for submitting proposals: 31 October 2025
The centennial years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) have seen a rise in academic engagement with and public interest in this period of German film history. As one of the most dynamic and experimental periods in global cinema, Weimar film has long been recognized for its aesthetic innovations, sociopolitical commentary, and influence on subsequent film movements. Yet these anniversary commemorations have not only reaffirmed the significance of this era, they have also opened the door for new questions, perspectives, and critical paradigms. This conference seeks to build on this momentum by revisiting Weimar cinema through fresh critical lenses and innovative methodologies, inviting participants to reconsider its cultural, political, and aesthetic significance in light of new archival discoveries, theoretical frameworks, and interdisciplinary approaches. The conference will take stock of our current understanding of Weimar film to map where this field may be heading as well as offering new genealogies of those images, figures, and texts that have defined it thus far.
In addition to traditional conference papers, we welcome contributions from archivists, practice-based researchers, and works of videographic criticism. Please submit proposals of up to 300 words to lawrence.alexander@rsa.ox.ac.uk and mlh21@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31st October 2025. Notices of acceptance will be sent out in December. A limited number of bursaries are available to contribute to travel and accommodation costs for postgraduate and early-career speakers. This event is hosted by the Weimar Film Network and funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) as part of a three-year Promoting German Studies networking grant awarded to the German Screen Studies Network, co-directed by Dr Paul Flaig and Dr Dora Osborne.
📢📢📢 Upcoming Conference: 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026)
Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI...
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!
❗Deadline extended to August 10❗
If you’d like to connect with fellow caucus members working on related topics, please sign up for the #QTCConnectProgram by emailing scmsqueer@gmail.com with “QTC Connect” as the subject line @javiperezosorio.bsky.social @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social
Thanks for the enthusiasm for the Alex Doty Mentorship Program, especially with the quick deadline! We have decided to extend the deadline to July 6 to welcome more signups. We especially encourage more mentors to join us. Mid-career folks can be both a mentor and mentee! Check SCMS email for info.
We’re excited to share a few important leadership updates for the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus! @scmstudies.bsky.social
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Queer and trans film and media scholars, SCMS QTC members, please help me retire as the senior co-chair of @scmsqtc.bsky.social!
I am old & tired.
We’re looking for secretary nominees until the 25th to hold elections. It’s a 3 year term: secretary ➡️ junior co-chair ➡️ senior co-chair ➡️ retirement.
Dear QTC members,
We are looking for a new caucus Secretary!
If you are interested in nominating yourself for this position, please email a bio of 100-200 words and a platform of 200-300 words to scmsqueer@gmail.com by the end of the day on Friday, May 16th.
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PANEL: Mapping Latinx Studies: Arts, Literature and Culture in the US and the UK.
Clara Garavelli (U of Leicester), Cherilyn Elston (U of Reading), @javiperezosorio.bsky.social (U of Stirling), Emma Staniland (U of Leicester), and Verónica Posada Álvarez (U of Derby).
#SLAS2025
Happy to have presented at @scmstudies.bsky.social this year with a panel I co-organised with @lawrencealexander.bsky.social.
It’s a sneak peek of the upcoming special issue we’re preparing for @alphavillej.bsky.social.
We're very excited to see many of you at this year's conference in Chicago #SCMS2025.
We've prepared the following zine with information about all the panels with queer and trans themes. (Sorry if we missed anything; the program is long!)
Download the QueerZine here:
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Text reads: “QueerZine the very best in queer and trans scholarship at SCMS 2025 from the Queer & Trans Caucus” in white letters over a pink and purple cover with film images above and below the text.
BREAKING: @scmsqtc.bsky.social zine just dropped!!!
Check out the latest & hottest in queer & trans cinema & media scholarship; #SCMS2025 panels & the annual QTC🍹
Check your 📧 for the full zine, made by our talented grad re Eduardo Pelligra!
IMPORTANT UPDATE for QTC members participating in this year's conference.
#SCMS2025
This is the Queer and Trans SCMS Caucus starter pack to stay in touch!
Please join our community.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Hello everyone!
We are excited to have this new platform to stay in touch.
Please watch this account to learn more about caucus activities and our plans for #SCMS2025 in Chicago.
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I did!
That's Almodóvar's wording... It's the same in Spanish, and one of the things I enjoyed the most in his films. His characters never speak 'naturally'. It is a sort of poetic recitation, always melodramatically charged. I think Tilda Swinton called that something like 'Almodovaria'.
Excited about this panel Lawrence and I convened.
#SCMS2025
An image of a laptop with the SCMS Virtual Symposium, the Queer and Trans Caucus meeting time “TODAY 4:00 - 05:00 PM” with the board member speakers names: Slava Greenberg, Eduardo Pelligra, Javier Perez Osorio, and Joshua Bastian Cole.
Getting ready to connect with my people!
@javiperezosorio.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS25