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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 9

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
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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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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Jul 9

Here's to ethical, sustainable modes of academic publishing in place of predatory extractivism.

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Dr. Elīna Reitere @elinareitere.bsky.social · Jul 1

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”.
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#academicbluesky

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View of TAVA LAIME / YOUR HAPPINESS BY ADA NERETNIECE: IDEOLOGICALLY DATED FILMS AND EPISTEMIC IMPERIALISM OF DISCURSIVE FIELDS

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Jul 1

congrats, can't wait to read!

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · Jun 27

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]

Three people in person and one projected onto a large screen engage in discussion in a university seminar room

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 23

sold out both!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social but @columbiaup.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social have got all your fatal laughter AND historicist crisis needs covered!!!!

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 21

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

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 21

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

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Jun 18

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!

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jun 6

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 · Jun 6

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.

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Jun 5

ah thanks, Slava! 🤗

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 · Jun 4

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....

Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2025)

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Apr 19

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!

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · Apr 6

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...

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · Apr 3

aw thanks for attending!! 🤗

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Maryse Elliott @maryzen.bsky.social · Apr 3

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