Happy to see my article published in AA, "Displaced Impacts: Visibility, Care, and Humanitarian Filmmaking in Iran."
Meanwhile geopolitics are messy & losing the plot. Missing simpler times in anti-war organizing.
Norouz pirouz 🌿
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Postdoc opportunity for scholar-practitioners in Global Majority diasporic art and thought. Interests: installation + socially engaged art, video/sound, curation, experimental practices, and fields like sound studies, Asian American, Black, and Latinx studies
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Thrilled that my project "academic freedom," will screen in Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, New Orleans. Sad I won't be at the American Anthropological Association conference in person, but huge thanks to SVAFMF team! <3 svafilmandmediafestival.org/academic-fre...
Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives. During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge. "The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
So… is someone going to start up an alternative peace prize, to give Bisan the award?
This is also showing how google is becoming a less effective search engine (so that we have to do multiple searches, see more advertisements, generate more revenue for shareholders...)
#Employment The Department of History at Colby College invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East/Islamic history beginning July 1, 2026.
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Students across Europe will stop classes if the flotilla is intercepted by Israel After the call from Italian, Spanish and French students earlierthis September, more student collectives are joining the call: to action, in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. We are telling our governments: If you stop the flottilla, we'll stop classes. We are calling to massify the movement, more student collectives around the world are welcomed to join. @ae_reims, union.etudiante et..
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Funded PhD opportunities in Poli Sci at ULaval, focus on impact of China's Science Silk Road program, and supervisors are particularly interested in canadidates with experience / networks / linguistic knowledge in Africa or Latin America. www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
thanks is to these directors!! <3
Happening now in the world of film and politics:
Yesterday 50 Israeli doc filmmakers publish open letter expressing “profound shame,” “helplessness,” over genocide in Gaza & solidarity with global boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
So, agents wear masks in public for “fear” of being doxxed when it is part of their job to be accountable for their actions, but members of the public with Constitutional rights have their liberties stripped by the government that uses a third party organization that…(checks notes)…doxxes?
Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
Rümeysa released and planning to purse her case in federal court.
Another blow to the Trump administration.
‘We have no more food to prepare,’ warns World Central Kitchen as it halts food aid operations amid Israeli blockade.
The UN is investigating the involvement of entities incl. pension funds+universities "in the commission of international crimes connected to 🇮🇱's unlawful occupation, racial segregation & apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territory"
How's your uni faring?
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On this note: universities were literally creating policies last November *before the election* to comply with new CHIPS language restricting scientific collaboration with people from certain countries, including China
Feels like this is echoing the turn towards big funding for social impact films in Hollywood some years ago, but then actually that leading to apolitical films without social justice outcomes.
Convincing people to wait on the hoped-for benevolence of rich people rather than taxing the shit out of them and having fully funded social welfare programs is the greatest trick that Regan ever pulled.
Y'all.
Just hit 1,000 signups. In less than 24 hours.
I'm in shock. And in awe.
Postdoc opportunity in interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. Taft Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences. jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
with aid not getting in and with ongoing bombardment again, eSims continue to be a crucial lifeline.
if you are like me and can’t go to in-person things too often, please consider supporting our work directly:
#ConnectingGaza
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Small children killed by Trump and Musk
IOF storm Al-Quds University, east of occupied Jerusalem, ahead of planned student rally in solidarity with Gaza.
U.S. campuses saw cops with rubber bullets. Palestinian campuses see assault rifles.
This is what academic freedom looks like in 2025.
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