Webinar, 1 December@6.30pm (CET): "Researching South American cinemas: national contexts and global connections", with Maria Paz Peirano and Alejandro Kelly. Discussant Paolo Noto. Organised by AIRSC (Italian Association for Research on Film History). Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/8694741655...
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 — m.w.jones@exeter.ac.uk
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).
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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 (m.w.jones@exeter.ac.uk) & Talitha Ferraz (talitha.ferraz@gmail.com) 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...
Absolutely!
Done! Thanks, Martin!
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_