The BAFTSS EC is delighted to announce the 2026 Outstanding Achievement Award recipient: the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive.
For more details please see the BAFTSS website:
www.baftss.org/outstanding2...
Hey, so I'm out of practice with 'announcements' but: I wrote a book and it's coming out in November. It's called The Sonic Surrogate and it's about sound reproduction, reproductive crisis and the proliferation of music technologies that promise to take care of us
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-so...
The closing date for our (fees-only) PhD studentship is fast approaching...
Deadline today!
We are pleased to announce that the conference website, including the schedule is now live: www.baftss.org/conference-2...
Places are limited - register early to avoid disappointment.
Deadline: 8th March 2026.
Queries can be directed to baftss2026@gmail.com
The 2026 @baftss.bsky.social Conference website is live. Read the full programme, register, find out about the publishers in attendance, the keynote, the conference dinner, the venue and the conference team. You can contact them via the form at the bottom of the page. www.baftss.org/conference-2...
Also, not all free labour is unethical or unethically sought. Depends on who's asking. A for-profit publisher? Piss off. An elite institution? Do one. Or a casualized researcher? A former PhD student? A friend in need? Should I say no in shit short fiction prose?
(I'm very angry.)
(I'm making the assumption that an assistant professor in the US is an adjunct teacher.)
Been a while but I'm still bewildered by that elaborate SF novella call out on the 'other' Jiscmail. Talk about punching down: long-embedded in academic structures, the reply aller attacks the ECR for a dysfunction of HE: its culture of service/free labour. Who made the bed? Who shat in it? The ECR?
BAFTSS is making available 7 Conference Bursaries of up to £200 each to support attendance at the Association's annual conference for those members who are postgraduate researchers (including MA and PhD students).
Complete the form: www.baftss.org/conference-b...
Deadline: 20th March 2026.
Finally worked out a way to get over from Ireland for AWP (thanks in no small part to good friends) so if any mags or presses are interested in me reading please hit me up. Here's a picture of me with my arms out (Plz RT???)
In a sector under attack - from govt refusal to fund HE; KPI- and cuts-obsessed VCs; plagiarism engines; culture warriors - mutual support, sharing of experience and collaboration are more important than ever. Please consider participating in this important @baftss.bsky.social scheme in either role.
BAFTSS continues to run its Early Career Mentoring Scheme, which has been invaluable to helping ECRs in this increasingly precarious sector. This is a call for new mentors and mentees to take part in the scheme!
For more info: www.baftss.org/early-career...
#baftss #earlycareermentoringscheme
I've been thinking about multilingual scholars' practice. I use English only, to inhabit an outside-in/inside-out perspective and to force me to consider word usage carefully. When someone translates their work/publishes bilingually, I wonder how attentive they are to consistency of terminology.
Watching Frankenstein and it's hilarious how Del Toro fetishizes traditional effects and genres and their stylistic markers and professes to hate AI, but the whole film looks like an AI cheese dream. (To be fair to him, perhaps all this tells us is that AI was trained primarily on Del Toro's films?)
The Lincoln uni ones have bird flu. So they may be nice, but not exactly harmless.
I think what QT's top 10 of 21st-century cinema shows is not how far he has fallen but how narrowminded, extractive and domineering his engagement with 'world cinema' always had been. Or that the list was written by AI.
Gearing up for my lecture on the noses of film villains. Funny to think that students used to bristle at the parallel I draw btw you know who and the Phantom of the Opera and the argument that the wizard school books/films reproduce racist eugenic discourses of blood, lineage, sex and race.
This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
any faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible
How does Hollywood separate the art from the “cancelled” artist after #MeToo and how does it use Eastern Europe for the operation? To find out, read our article co-authored with Anna Mártonfi, in Celebrity Studies. (Link gives free access to the first 50 viewers)
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JKJ8U...
And it’ll get 4* in the REF because it’s long, collaborative, coauthored, interdisciplinary, methodologically innovative and published in Nature. 😂
Nature is a journal 'publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions.' They haven't a scooby about media studies though.
This article in Nature is wild. It makes a claim to analysing bias in online representation objectively in a way that would be funny if it weren't symptomatic of where we stand with humanities research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you @havasjulia.bsky.social for collaboration and hosting, and thank you @school-of-act.bsky.social for the warm welcome.
It was a lovely trip to York. The audience made up for its size with intensity of engagement. We had good discussions about knowledge production in Anglophone academia about ideas of Eastern Europe in the imagined ideological - but also real? - spaces that are Eastern Europe and the West.
Looking forward to giving a research paper in York tomorrow with my long-time collaborator @havasjulia.bsky.social on East-West relations, popular media, the "Hungarian GoT" Hunyadi, nutty Cold War reprise The Gorge and think pieces which posit Orbán's Hungary as originator of Western illiberalism.
The BAFTSS PGR Poster Showcase is now open to applications for next year's annual conference in Bournemouth, 15-17 April 2026. You could win a prize of £150!
www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s...
#baftss #cfp #pgr #conference
The film will follow John Bishop over 24hrs on the Doctor Who set for his history-making turn as Dan Lewis, the Thirteenth Doctor's companion.
The river police's 'what the horse prick is this' is actually a very sensible question to a man in an expensive plastic bucket in the middle of one of the busiest waterways in Europe where collisions between pleasure boats and freighters have had tragic consequences.
hvg.hu/elet/2025100...