Dear HoMERites, HoMER 2027 will be meeting in Utrecht! A huge thank you to Clara Pafort-Overduin and her colleagues at Utrecht University for stepping forward to host us. The dates for your diaries: main conference 7–9 July 2027; pre-conference 6 July. The call for papers will follow shortly.

And that’s a wrap on cinema summer camp with @homer-network.bsky.social at #HoMER2026!

PT Klein@ptklein.com · 3mo ago

Kind of unbelievable that I’ve been able to spend the last few days in deep conversation with a global group of historians and other scholars about cinemas and filmgoing. I am having the time of my life!

The second half of day 2 at #HoMER2026 included a panel on "Cinemas in neighbourhoods, small towns and rural areas" and a keynote address from Cinema for All CEO Jaq Chell.

Day 2 of #HoMER2026 uncluded panels on "Imagined futures and innovative directions" and "Methodologies, mapping and databases."

Some images from the second half of day 1 of #HoMER2026: the panel Spheres of Distinction, Identity and Belonging, awaiting the bus to the Barn Cinema and Matthew Rule-Jones announcing the launch of the HoMER book series.

Day 1 of HoMER 2026 at the University of Exeter began with tours of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum before our morning panels, including Art House Cinemas, Cult Film Events and their Audiences. #HoMER2026

Dear HoMERITES, The Final Schedule for our HoMER 2026 Conference is now available on our website! homernetwork.org/final-schedu... Please check the schedule as some sessions have had to be adjusted. Urgent queries to talitha.ferraz@gmail.com More information next week on the HoMER Network website.

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...

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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

IAMHIST has released the CFP for its 2026 Master Class: iamhist.net/iamhist-mast...

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).

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.

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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...

Call for participation in HoMER Working Groups

As defined at the last AGM, held in Istanbul on 11 July 2025, over the coming 12 months (until the next edition of the HoMER Conference in 2026), we will have three working groups collaborating with t...

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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!

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#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.

Hollywood Memories@hollywoodmemories.bsky.social · last yr.

We're at #HoMERIstanbul2025! Our panel was today and we're looking forward to the rest of the conference. It's so great to be back with the HoMER crowd and present the progress of our project. A big thanks to the organizers for having us!

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/

Election for HoMER Network Coordinators 2026-2028

Please fill out the following form with the information of the board of candidates for the coordination of the HoMER Network 2026-2028. According to the HoMER Network Constitution, the coordination o...

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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.

Which fields do you want to include in the search?

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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

Screen Studies Conference 2025

27 June - 29 June 2025, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland

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