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Kevin Smets

@kevinsmets.bsky.social

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Professor media & culture at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Teaches film history. ERC project www.reelborders.eu. Film, migration, Turkey, borders, media. Research group ECHO: Media, Culture & Politics

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Feb 6

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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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Sep 3

New papers from the @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: on "Borderwork as artistic practice" in Geopolitics + on participatory filmmaking in Sensate.

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By stellar team Lennart Soberon @silviamaresia.bsky.social & Irene Gutiérrez-Torres

Title page of article in the journal Sensate: "Rethinking audiovisual methods. Using film as a tool to overcome borders." written by Irene Gutiérrez-Torres, Silvia Almenara-Niebla and Kevin Smets

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

Kinotopias: film, place and belonging in a bordered world (title of forthcoming book). Authors: Kevin Smets, Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutierrez Torres, Silvia Almenara Niebla

Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Jun 10

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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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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · Jun 3

(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.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · May 15

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-...

Academische vrijheid in Nederland onder druk - KNAW

Academische vrijheid in Nederland onder druk

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apache/ @apache.be · Mar 8

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

GEZOCHT:
€ 50.000 voor de training van jonge honden

De onafhankelijke onderzoeksjournalist is een met uitsterven bedreigde soort. Terwijl we hem harder nodig hebben dan ooit.

Daarom start Apache een journalistiek kweekprogramma: het Fellowship Georges Timmerman

Genoemd naar de gelauwerde onderzoeksjournalist en founding father van Apache.

Help jij ons aan de 50.000 euro die we nodig hebben om twee jonge journalistieke talenten op te leiden tot waakhonden van de democratie?

Doneer via apache.be/FGT

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Feb 27

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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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Feb 17

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...

Doctoraatsbursaal binnen het domein filmstudies | Universiteit Antwerpen

YUFE vacature

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Dec 10

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

Postdoctoral Researcher at SOAS

Apply now for Postdoctoral Researcher, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS

vacancies.soas.ac.uk

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Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social · Dec 3

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...

The title of the book (The Documentary Audit) appears in bold black text against a deep crimson background that fades to pink toward the bottom right. The book's subtitle (Listening and the Limits of Accountability) and the author's name (Pooja Rangan) appear in smaller pink letters.

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Nov 29

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

Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social · Nov 27

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

Hija/Daughter- Khadija

This is "Hija/Daughter- Khadija" by Irene Gutierrez on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Nov 28

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 🎬

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Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hija/Daughter- Khadija

This is "Hija/Daughter- Khadija" by Irene Gutierrez on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Nov 25

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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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Nov 19

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...

Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities – FORAGENCY

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Nov 13

Suggestion: the @foragency.bsky.social project

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Nov 12

Thank you Petra for this great list. I would love to be added as well if possible - thanks!

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Nov 12

Thank you to the Ibn Zohr University team and especially Mohammed Ouhemmou for the invitation. Very thoughtful questions from the participants too!

Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Nov 12

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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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com · Nov 11

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

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Nov 8

thank you so much for this list, looking forward to loads of inspiration and new encounters! i'd like to be added too if possible - thank you!

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Oct 21

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.
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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Oct 17

Studying migration? This new Handbook of Research Methods in Migration offers a range of hands-on approaches for the field. I contributed a chapter on visual methods. Find out more here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... (the chapter is #openaccess).

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Oct 9

Together with Lennart Soberon, I published a new paper on border films. We analyse 43 films connected to the Irish border and develop a typology of different border mobilities. Read the full paper, open access, in the Irish Studies Review, here: doi.org/10.1080/0967....

Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · Jun 20

Today I had the pleasure to present for the first time at the conference of the Radical Film Network. I presented work with Irene Gutiérrez on the use of archives in participatory filmmaking. Read more about the network here (radicalfilmnetwork.com). More info: reelborders.eu/RFN-2024-Con....

Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · May 22

The end of another semester of teaching #filmhistory. Thank you to Cinematek for hosting our classes & to a great, critical group of students.

Main lesson learned this year = bringing world politics into class is appreciated by students. See you next year for more film history! 🎬