For anyone in the Bay Area, @hannesbajohr.de and @antoniosomaini.bsky.social have organized an exciting 3-day workshop on AI and culture this week. I'll be speaking on a Thursday panel with @nwbaer.bsky.social and @shanedenson.bsky.social! german.berkeley.edu/latent-space...

An episode which I guarantee will yield equal amounts of “YAAAAAAAAS” & “what the hell are we doing here, guys.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

One of the theses of Vandal Live has been that putting scholars in a room together to squabble about a well-conceived esoteric topic is knowledge production. Yael Segalovitz & David Marno maybe understood this assignment even better than I did.

Reading, Sleep, Attention, Grief (Vandal Live @ UC-Berkeley)

with Yael Segalovitz, David Marno, and many more

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We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Nicholas Baer will give a talk at the University of Minnesota next Thurs (March 5th) at 5:30 PM in 216 Pillsbury Dr., Room 135. UMN folks, don't miss it!!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social cla.umn.edu/gnsd/news-ev...

"Provincialising Weimar Culture" is out! @nwbaer.bsky.social, Britta Schilling and I edited a special issue for German Life and Letters on "local and global perspectives on interwar Germany": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483....

Special Issue: PROVINCIALISING WEIMAR CULTURE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERWAR GERMANY A SPECIAL NUMBER: German Life and Letters: Vol 79, No 1

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Deeply grateful for this generous, insightful, and eloquent review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Screen. Many thanks to Jane Gaines for reading my work so thoughtfully and for situating it within the broader history of the discipline. academic.oup.com/screen/artic...

Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed. necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...

Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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In my latest academic publication I propse to supplement the concept of dated film (Jamie Baron), which encompasses cultural and aesthetic datedness, by ideological datedness. Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”. 1/2 #academicbluesky culturecrossroads.lv/index.php/cc...

Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]

sold out both!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social but @columbiaup.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social have got all your fatal laughter AND historicist crisis needs covered!!!! cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b... www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

Maggie Hennefeld@hennefem.bsky.social · last yr.

Spotted at the #IlCinemaRitrovato FilmFair!!! 🎊🎞️📚 @nwbaer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Spotted at the #IlCinemaRitrovato FilmFair!!! 🎊🎞️📚 @nwbaer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Looking forward to the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference tomorrow!!!! If you're in Lisbon, come to our panel on Feminist Film Practices & Historical Recovery (in the C10 spot!). 🎞️❤️ necs.org/conference

excited for the NECS conference in Lisbon! Join us tomorrow (Thursday, June 19) at 9:00 for a workshop on "Creative Reuse: Navigating the Archive" with Deniz Göktürk, Grazia Ingravalle, Alexandra Schneider, and Jaap Verheul as well as a video essay by Ritika Kaushik! necs.org/conference

tenured and promoted to associate professor! deeply grateful for the intellectual engagement and labor of so many colleagues at Berkeley and well beyond.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.

Vinzenz Hediger@vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · last yr.

Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.

Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!

Dr. Molly Harrabin@mharrabin.bsky.social · last yr.

Pleased to see my review of @nwbaer.bsky.social's latest book Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism' out in Oxford German Studies today - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

honored to keynote the 20th CMS grad student conference at UChicago next weekend on “Failing Media." Join us for two days of panels along with a faculty roundtable and performance by Gibson + Recoder. Many thanks to Hugo Ljungbäck and Nat Modlin for organizing! voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/

Every year goes by too quickly! We're here for a few more hours at #SCMS25 so drop by for one last chance to view our latest books in cinema and media studies. Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...

#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics www.aup.nl/en/book/9789.... You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!

Nicholas Baer@nwbaer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25

Standing room only at the Technics roundtable!! #SCMS25 @nwbaer.bsky.social

Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78

One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.

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Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.

From Carrie

Friends in Philly: I'll be sharing my work at Penn this Wednesday at noon. Would love to see you there! cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

Linda Williams led a truly extraordinary life—a model of fearless inquiry, principled struggle, and joie de vivre. I'm grateful beyond measure for her pathbreaking scholarship and rigorous mentorship over the years. Her words continue to resonate.

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello

So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

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Definitely time for a new edition.

Today today today, Berkeley folx!

Nicholas Baer@nwbaer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024). events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...