Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
@cbkenkar.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
CFP is up for AAS 2026 let's goooooo ✍️
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We're proud to share our co-host Wickham Flannagan's latest video essay, as published in 16:9 Film Journal! vimeo.com/1140094821
The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: “Parasite and the Ones Below…”
This is "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: “Parasite and the Ones Below…”" by 16:9 Film Journal on Vimeo, the home for high quality…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We're proud to share our co-host Wickham Flannagan's latest video essay, as published in 16:9 Film Journal! vimeo.com/1140094821
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I have a desperate ask for anyone with access to the University of Minnesota Library!
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I have a desperate ask for anyone with access to the University of Minnesota Library!
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LLM-generated slop gets through undetected & seems viable because a considerable amount of contemporary mainstream writing (literary & other genres) reads like it was algorithmically-pumped anyway. People writing to imitate a marketing machine is the saddest thing.
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
LLM-generated slop gets through undetected & seems viable because a considerable amount of contemporary mainstream writing (literary & other genres) reads like it was algorithmically-pumped anyway. People writing to imitate a marketing machine is the saddest thing.
legit question here! but imho, speaking as a scholar outside both fields, I suspect that fan studies would have a more cogent take on Whatever That Was than anything coming from political science
Like what are we supposed to take away from Mamdani‘s meeting with Trump like is it Donald‘s kink to be called a fascist by handsome men?
I am legitimately asking as a confused queer person
I am legitimately asking as a confused queer person
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
legit question here! but imho, speaking as a scholar outside both fields, I suspect that fan studies would have a more cogent take on Whatever That Was than anything coming from political science
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The news cycle is nuts.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The news cycle is nuts.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
If you know scholars from/studying the MENA region who might benefit from a writing solidarity group, please send them my way. All levels are welcome - grad students, full professors, anyone.
We just finished Week 136 and we had first-timers this week.
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🌻🌻🌻 VARDA MENTIONED 🌻🌻🌻
Agnès Varda is a marvelous movie technician who knows how to compose shots, how to structure sequences, how to make a movie move. (1969)
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🌻🌻🌻 VARDA MENTIONED 🌻🌻🌻
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We're here to help! Find us wherever you get podcasts 🎧 😁
Below are a few of our favorite recommendations "from the archives..."
Below are a few of our favorite recommendations "from the archives..."
People who post "they don't make good movies anymore" or "movies are better than they have ever been" definitely need to watch more movies. Watch old movies. Watch movies with subtitles. Watch different genres. Otherwise you're missing out. #filmsky
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We're here to help! Find us wherever you get podcasts 🎧 😁
Below are a few of our favorite recommendations "from the archives..."
Below are a few of our favorite recommendations "from the archives..."
Loudly echoing this complaint, and adding to the frustration is the (usually tacit) expectation that parents are supposed to infiltrate these systems themselves in order to have half a clue what is going on in the curriculum. Weekly emails from grade 3; crickets from grade 7.
Can I just complain about the fact that 12 year olds are now expected to be able to navigate half-broken, enshittified digital platforms just to do school? On a daily basis they are required to use a mishmash of absolute garbage software that would make *me* rage quit. This is now the norm?
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Loudly echoing this complaint, and adding to the frustration is the (usually tacit) expectation that parents are supposed to infiltrate these systems themselves in order to have half a clue what is going on in the curriculum. Weekly emails from grade 3; crickets from grade 7.
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Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.
What to do w/r/t the influential work of creeps? Important question. In cinema: happy to see a notice this summer in the Musée Carnavalet's exhibition of Agnès Varda's photographs, acknowledging both her early collaborations with Gérard Depardieu & his very recent conviction for sexual assault.
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What to do w/r/t the influential work of creeps? Important question. In cinema: happy to see a notice this summer in the Musée Carnavalet's exhibition of Agnès Varda's photographs, acknowledging both her early collaborations with Gérard Depardieu & his very recent conviction for sexual assault.
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Biggest congratulations to @bilgeyesil.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!
Congratulations to @bilgeyesil.bsky.social's TALKING BACK TO THE WEST on winning the National Communication Association’s International and Intercultural Communication Division Distinguished Scholarship Award for Best Book (single or co-authored) for 2025!
www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Biggest congratulations to @bilgeyesil.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
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tfw your podcast is not nominated for a Golden Globe
November 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
tfw your podcast is not nominated for a Golden Globe
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
It's here, and it's a wild one! Listen here or wherever you get podcasts 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It's here, and it's a wild one! Listen here or wherever you get podcasts 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
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Come for the Creature, stay for a chaotic digression into Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from the sexy sexy 90s.
Listen to YMMWT's take on FRANKENSTEIN (2025) here OR wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341
Listen to YMMWT's take on FRANKENSTEIN (2025) here OR wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Come for the Creature, stay for a chaotic digression into Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from the sexy sexy 90s.
Listen to YMMWT's take on FRANKENSTEIN (2025) here OR wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341
Listen to YMMWT's take on FRANKENSTEIN (2025) here OR wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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YMMWT: rejecting gender trends since 2022
New research from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shows that both podcast hosts and their guests skew very heavily male — and white.
Bros really are dominating podcasting
New research from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shows that both podcast hosts and their guests skew very heavily male — and white.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
YMMWT: rejecting gender trends since 2022
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Citing the terrific graphic novel DESTROYER by @victorlavalle.bsky.social at our Frankenstein recording session (facial expression not reflective of feelings about the book)
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Citing the terrific graphic novel DESTROYER by @victorlavalle.bsky.social at our Frankenstein recording session (facial expression not reflective of feelings about the book)
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This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
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Adaptation Today's next mentoring workshop is one month away!! Join us to hear about adaptation in practice from composers, performers, and directors - we're going to talk music, theatre, silent film, and puppets!!
You can register on Adaptation Today's website: adaptationtoday.com/professional...
You can register on Adaptation Today's website: adaptationtoday.com/professional...
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Adaptation Today's next mentoring workshop is one month away!! Join us to hear about adaptation in practice from composers, performers, and directors - we're going to talk music, theatre, silent film, and puppets!!
You can register on Adaptation Today's website: adaptationtoday.com/professional...
You can register on Adaptation Today's website: adaptationtoday.com/professional...
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Well, wilt thou? Huh? Are you game?
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well, wilt thou? Huh? Are you game?
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
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Where can you listen to a bunch of nerds talking about PTA's latest Pynchon adaptation? Ep. 93, starring Pynchon scholar Eric Sandberg!
Available here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
Available here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Where can you listen to a bunch of nerds talking about PTA's latest Pynchon adaptation? Ep. 93, starring Pynchon scholar Eric Sandberg!
Available here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
Available here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
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If “affiliated with” means “citizen of,” then effectively every single American health scientist, including the vast majority of current graduate students, would no longer be able to conduct public research.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If “affiliated with” means “citizen of,” then effectively every single American health scientist, including the vast majority of current graduate students, would no longer be able to conduct public research.