New paper in @ijcs-journal.bsky.social: I discuss film culture in #Rojava (NE Syria) to critically reflect on the relations between autonomy, film, and revolution. Access here doi.org/10.1177/1367... (or contact me if you don't have access). @erc.europa.eu

The new book is out! "Kinotopias" was written together with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez-Torres & @silviamaresia.bsky.social as part of the @erc.europa.eu project "Reel Borders". Get your copy here (hardcover + open access e-book): edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kinotop...

Our forthcoming book 'Kinotopias: Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World' now has a cover ⤵️. Coming out later this year: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kinotop.... Great collaboration with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez Torres and @silviamaresia.bsky.social.

⚡ New OA paper in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography with @silviamaresia.bsky.social, from our @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TJBKZ.... We develop the cineforum methodology as an approach for sensitive knowledge in ethnography.

From earlier this week: Irene Gutiérrez-Torres & I presenting a screening and talk about @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders, one of the final presentations of the project. Thank you NYU Steinhardt for hosting this session, which was introduced by Radha S. Hegde.

⚡ New paper in Third Text with Giacomo Toffano. In "Hybrid Aesthetics of Standby" we discuss 3 films (Flotel Europa/Havarie/Purple Sea) and how they disrupt the border spectacle through formal hybrid experimentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A very engaging student audience today at @cuny.edu during our lecture on Reel Borders with Irene Gutiérrez-Torres. Thank you @bilgeyesil.bsky.social for this opportunity!

Bilge Yesil@bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I had the pleasure of hosting @kevinsmets.bsky.social and Irene Gutierrez-Torres today at CSI CUNY. Check out their amazing project reelborders.eu

⚡ Out now: Javnost-The Public special issue "The far-right and the politics of films, series and videogames", co-edited w @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, Omran Shroufi, Joke Bauwens & me. Full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/3...

De academie die brandhout maakte van de Vlaamse canon, de KVAB, krijgt nu de rekening gepresenteerd. Ze verliest al (!) haar subsidies in 2026. Minister-president noemt de academie (die nochtans de Vlaamse kandidaat Nobelprijswinnaars voordraagt) geen kerntaak meer. apache.be/2025/10/16/d...

Diependaele keldert Vlaamse academie die brandhout maakte van Vlaamse canon

De Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten verliest in 2026 al haar subsidies.

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New papers from the @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: on "Borderwork as artistic practice" in Geopolitics + on participatory filmmaking in Sensate. ▶️ doi.org/10.1080/1465... ▶️ sensatejournal.com/rethinking-a... By stellar team Lennart Soberon @silviamaresia.bsky.social & Irene Gutiérrez-Torres

Sending this manuscript off to @edinburghup.bsky.social today! In a few months we'll hopefully be able to share the whole thing. Great team work with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez-Torres and @silviamaresia.bsky.social #ReelBorders #kinotopias @erc.europa.eu

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Wat u doet in het volwassenenonderwijs, Zuhal Demir, getuigt van diepe minachting

Twee leraars in het volwassenenonderwijs vragen de minister van Onderwijs om de besparingen terug te draaien.

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(1/1) New! Film Atlas (filmatlas.com) is an online encyclopedia of film as a physical medium, featuring essays + images contributed by 200+ authors from 25+ countries.

Academic freedom in the Netherlands under pressure. New report from Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences @knaw-nl.bsky.social What is needed: 🚩 stronger freedom of research 🚩 less substantive government influence 🚩 support against intimidation and attacks www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-...

De democratie wordt van alle kanten aangevallen en haar belangrijkste bewaker, de #onderzoeksjournalist, is een bedreigde soort. Daarom lanceert Apache het Fellowship Georges Timmerman. Help jij ons aan €50.000 om de opleiding van twee jonge waakhonden te financieren? Meer info op apache.be/FGT

A new article from the Reel Borders @erc.europa.eu team, published in @culturalstudies.bsky.social. Lennart Soberon reports on extensive ethnographic work and 50+ interviews, discussing post-conflict memory work in film and television. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Navigating the troubles’ tidelands: the push and pull of memory in post-conflict northern Ireland’s film & television industry

The screen representation of Northern Ireland has since long been a hotbed for issues of remembering and reimagining. Loaded with symbolic questions on authorship and authenticity, the treatment of...

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Two vacancies in a new research project, "Home Frames", on migration history & amateur film in Belgium, funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. Come work with Gertjan Willems (UAntwerpen) and myself (VUBrussel) on this exciting topic: 🎞️ www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca... 🎞️ jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-R...

Following my research stay at the LSE, I wrote this blogpost for Media@LSE about the "afterlife" of participatory filmmaking. Thank you to @myriageorgiou.bsky.social for this opportunity & to @irenegutierrez.bsky.social for your amazing work on the films. Full text: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

How participatory filmmaking can deepen our understanding of life on the border

As part of the ERC-funded project Reel Borders, researchers and participants joined forces to create a series of films addressing questions of border experiences, citizenship and belonging, trauma,…

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Vacancy posted by great colleagues @soasuni.bsky.social. A part-time postdoc position in the project "Archives of solidarity", for visual anthropologists or media scholars: vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/643848

I wrote a book on how justice-driven documentaries teach us to listen—and how those listening habits can perpetuate injustice or bring about transformative change. Coming soon from Columbia UP, read more about it here: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-doc...

Thank you Hannah & @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the invitation & great discussion afterwards!

Hannah Jones@uncomfiest.bsky.social · 2y ago

Enjoyed finally meeting @kevinsmets.bsky.social in person and hearing his @sociowarwick.bsky.social Research Seminar paper today, including getting to see one of the many brilliant short films about borders to come out of his ERC Reel Borders project: vimeo.com/783186118

More than 10 years after my first @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, I'm so glad to be going to the next conference in Chicago. Looking forward to presenting Reel Borders research & reconnecting with the SCMS community 🎬

The first episode of our podcast is out! Tune in to listen to Diogo Cabral on MTH history, leafcutting ants in the Amazon, the activist nature of #envhist and on the edited volume MTH histories of Latin America and the Carribbean ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

Episode 1.01. Diogo De Carvhalo Cabral on history beyond the human

For the first episode of Foraging, we hosted Prof. Diogo de Carvhalo Cabral, of Trinity College Dublin. Diogo is a fascinating voice in more-than-human history. His groundbreaking research on the...

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We are thrilled to announce the publication of the first season of "Foraging. A podcast in Environmental Humanities" 🌱: 4 in-depth interviews with historians and anthropologists on their work, methods, inspirations ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

Oh yeah and our latest contribution is a starter pack of critical border studies related people. We haven't met too many people on here yet so the list is just a beginning. To be added contact @arijerrems.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN 7/6

As our community here slowly grows, here is a starting list of people working on critical border studies, #migration journalists, #refugee storytellers, and border abolitionists like @hebagowayed.bsky.social @vwlegal.bsky.social @vanessid.bsky.social @nsharma101.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social

Love it when film scholars are invited to contribute to social science conferences. I just had the pleasure to deliver a keynote address at the conference "Mediterranean Crossings: Rotating Politics of Migration in the Mediterranean Space" reelborders.eu/AgadirConfer...

AgadirConference — Reel_Borders

Keynote presentation On 9 November, Kevin Smets gave a keynote lecture on the Reel Borders project at the international conference “Mediterranean Crossings:...

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In "Remixing Wong Kar-Wai," Giorgio Biancorosso analyzes filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s use of pre-existing music to create the soundtracks for his films. Read the introduction for free now. ow.ly/nw7e50TPNTu

And this one is for Film and Media Studies: go.bsky.app/4Ui4fk8