Most people seem to think that "teaching" is the getting up in front of the class and talking part (or maybe any 1-on-1 assistance). Everything else is dismissed as busywork.

But in my 20ish years experience, the stuff highlighted below that you're encouraged to automate is TEACHING.

Great article by @zsolt.bsky.social and B. Stanley. As I've been trying to say also, illiberalism in "Eastern Europe" has never been unrelated to "the West" or "anti-Western." Also because, as Z and S show, the West isn't what it used to be.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Really looking forward to delivering this paper on a fascinating film that sunk without a trace with the brilliant @havasjulia.bsky.social as part of Friday's Genre Hybridity panel @baftss2025.bsky.social

How can a little-known French Hitchcock pastiche help us rethink the ideology of the Holocaust drama? Come to our @baftss2025.bsky.social paper, presented with @ggergely.bsky.social on the "Genre Hybridity" panel on Friday, to find out.

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In the hope this helps you get out of bed: I set your Mabel Normand chapter as essential reading on my undergrad “Feminism on the Screen” module at the Uni of York. Students love your argument about the Chaplin anecdote & how it points to film authorship as a set of gendered/patriarchal practices.

Call for papers: Television and New Media Special Issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV” 

https://cstonline.net/call-for-papers-television-and-new-media-special-issue-imagining-us-in-europe-europeanness-in-contemporary-american-prestige-tv/

Our #CFP for the TV & New Media special issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV”, co-edited with @ggergely.bsky.social and @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, is out.

Abstracts due 25 April, further details here: cstonline.net/call-for-pap...

We have written to the Secretary of State for Education to call on the Government to take urgent action to prevent mass layoffs and resolve the funding crisis in the sector.

Our letter in full: www.baftss.org/education-se...

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To quote from Kimmy Schmidt: I understood all those words separately.

Right. And this fixing by the AI is reproduced in the way American gatekeepers adjudicate the authenticity and ethics of the mechanically produced sonic foreignness. So in a sense, the from-here critics and the AI perform similar acts of control over the foreign voice.

Disappointing to see Owen Jones invoking spectre of Hungary as what awaits the US. Lazy & entirely false. Orbán isn't the OG, Hungary isn't patient zero. Orbán & his illiberalism were produced in decades-long interactions with, inside, outside & on margins of 'the West' (& the USSR/Russia et al).