Really happy to see the @baftss.bsky.social conference call and that the off-campus model is set to continue at least for this next iteration. Booked the accommodation and am very much looking forward to attending.

I don't mean to snipe from the sidelines or to give impression I can't let go of the BAFTSS chair, but seeing posts from MeCCSA at Leicester, which obliterated an excellent film department, after BAFTSS went off campus in response to threats to staff in media at Bournemouth is upsetting.

Extra Sonic Practice is hosting: Listening as a Porous Practice Against Coloniality - Friday 17th July 2026 with sound artists Amy Sharrocks and Jamie Perera. Online and free to attend. See details below. www.outsavvy.com/event/37808/...

Shame on Scorsese. Never liked him or his films, but this underscores the narcissism that underpins his persona as the ne plus ultra of American film auteurs. AI is useful to him because it permits greater fidelity in realizing his vision, further reducing the agency of his collaborators. Piss off.

Extraordinary shamlessness from Szabó: the lesson of my films is to steer well clear of power, but also, I've never had to worry about where financing for my films comes from. The latter is true, because he never did as he preaches. hvg.hu/360/20260605...

Szabó István: Jó messzire kell kerülni a hatalomtól, erről szólnak a filmjeim

Szabó István ötmilliárd forintos magyar támogatásból, összesen tízmilliárd forintból rendez filmet Ralph Fiennesszal és Viggo Mortensennel a főszerepben, de állítja: ő azt sem tudja, mennyi volt a köl...

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Love it when someone who loves to make things mandatory for staff cancels a presentation they're due to give on the morning it is supposed to happen.

#RaisingFilms has teamed up with King’s College London to conduct an impact and evaluation study of our work over the past eleven years. If you’ve engaged with Raising Films over the last decade, we’d love to hear from you! Survey closes 12th June 2026 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/kings/rais...

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

Hilarious that the minister in charge of Reform voter-baiting (the Home Secretary), who has massive responsibility for haemorrhaging voters to the Greens, is joining calls for Starmer to quit for losing voters. Hard to think of a more cynical move.

We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

When you're mad at your father because he's emotionally distant and a lousy grandfather and you catch yourself with fat all over your face standing over the food waste bin snaffling as you scrape the last of the fat and gristle off a gnarly bone with your teeth and you realize you are him. Just me?

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 Sonic Surrogate by Marie Thompson - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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The closing date for our (fees-only) PhD studentship is fast approaching...

Open University Music Department@oumusic.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Closing date for the Music Department Fees-only Studentship at the Open University is 31 March 2026, 12:00. The studentship is available to students paying UK fees and intending to start their studies on 1 October 2026. See university.open.ac.uk/employment/p... FASS-Music-Enquiries@open.ac.uk

Deadline today!

BAFTSS Adaptation SIG@adaptationsig.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The other news is....we're running a symposium in June (supported by @baftss.bsky.social and B-Film). See below for the CFP.

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

BAFTSS Conference 2026

Welcome to the Homepage of the 2026 edition of the annual conference of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. This year's conference takes place at the Highcliff Marriott...

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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...

BAFTSS Conference 2026

Welcome to the Homepage of the 2026 edition of the annual conference of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. This year's conference takes place at the Highcliff Marriott...

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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.

Conference Bursary Fund (PGR)

Constitution | Code of Conduct | Contact Us  | Join BAFTSS / Sign In ©  British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) 2025. Website maintained by Christina Wilkins .

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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@baftss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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

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?)

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

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 10mo ago

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

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...

‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur-directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe

An important ramification of the #MeToo movement has been its (re-)invigoration of debates about the cultural positions of arthouse cinema’s ‘problematic’ directors. While a somewhat peripheralised...

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