Silvia Almenara Niebla
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Silvia Almenara Niebla
@silviamaresia.bsky.social
Feminist 🇮🇨 | Postdoc at ERC ReelBorders & Guest Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel| Vice-chair at ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media| Researching #Media, #Migration, #Borders and #Emotions
Working on borders means engaging with fragile and sometimes painful emotions. Our new open-access article with @kevinsmets.bsky.social introduces the cineforum, a method from @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders to engage with sensitive knowledge ethically and with care
⚡ New OA paper in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography with @silviamaresia.bsky.social, from our @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TJBKZ.... We develop the cineforum methodology as an approach for sensitive knowledge in ethnography.
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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El escritor nigeriano Wole Soyinka, Nobel de Literatura, denuncia que Estados Unidos ha revocado su visado
El escritor nigeriano Wole Soyinka, Nobel de Literatura, denuncia que Estados Unidos ha revocado su visado
El autor de 'Los intérpretes' ha convocado una rueda de prensa para anunciar que tiene "prohibido entrar en EEUU": "¿He infringido alguna ley en algún lugar?"
www.eldiario.es
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere Jane Goodall, experta mundial en chimpancés e icono de la ecología del siglo XX www.eldiario.es/sociedad/mue...
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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New papers from the @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders project: on "Borderwork as artistic practice" in Geopolitics + on participatory filmmaking in Sensate.

▶️ doi.org/10.1080/1465...
▶️ sensatejournal.com/rethinking-a...

By stellar team Lennart Soberon @silviamaresia.bsky.social & Irene Gutiérrez-Torres
September 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
So proud of this team and work!
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
July 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We will have the privilege to listening Mirca Madianou as a key speaker in our conference @madianou.bsky.social
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social will deliver a keynote titled: "Resisting Technocolonialism: Reimagining ‘Technologies for Social Justice’ through Participatory Action Research." for the DMM + ICC ECREA Conference in Tallinn.

Submit your proposal at:
www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/dmmiic
DMMIIC
ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference. We are delighted to announce that the conference 'Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Refl...
www.tlu.ee
January 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You still have time to submit your abstract! 🎉
Great news about the upcoming DMM & ICC ECREA Conference! 🎉
We have extended the submission deadline to February 14th.
Submit your abstract and/or workshop/panel proposal via the following link:
💡 CALL FOR PAPERS 💡 We’re excited to announce the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference, Tallinn University in Estonia, from September 16 to 18, 2025.
See further details via the link below:
www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/dmmiic
January 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Hey colleagues!
The deadline to submit your abstract, panel and workshop proposal is approaching.
Join us in Tallinn for the ECREA - Diaspora, Migration and the Media section biannual conference 🎉
💡 CALL FOR PAPERS 💡 We’re excited to announce the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference, Tallinn University in Estonia, from September 16 to 18, 2025.
See further details via the link below:
www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/dmmiic
DMMIIC
ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference. We are delighted to announce that the conference 'Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Refl...
www.tlu.ee
January 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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⏳Still only one week to submit your abstract, panel or workshop for the #ECREA DMM-IIC conference 'Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue' in Tallinn, Estonia, from 16-18 September 2025!
👉All info here: www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/dmmiic
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media.tenor.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
We need time to think and we need to reclaim it in order to produce quality research
“A study has shown that science is becoming less disruptive, even though there are now more papers being published and grants awarded than ever before…

[R]esearchers and other knowledge workers need to slow down and spend more time thinking, to focus on maintaining and improving quality…”
December 23, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Submit your abstract and join us in Tallinn! 😊
💡 CALL FOR PAPERS 💡 We’re excited to announce the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference, Tallinn University in Estonia, from September 16 to 18, 2025.
See further details via the link below:
www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/dmmiic
DMMIIC
ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference. We are delighted to announce that the conference 'Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Refl...
www.tlu.ee
December 4, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Viva Zapata - Viva Abdel Kader Al Husseini (obra de Burhan Karkutli 1984)
November 20, 2024 at 8:04 PM
My last article on emotional geographies at the border of Ceuta and Melilla. I explore how film-viewing can reveal intimate experiences and civic emotions of activists in the context of pro-migrant mobilization
#Borders #Emotions #Ceuta #Melilla
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Revealing activist experiences through film-viewing: emotional geographies at the border of Ceuta and Melilla
Ceuta and Melilla are considered exemplary models of the border spectacle. The fences of these cities typify the notion of ‘Fortress Europe’ and impel the emotional engagement of the inhabitants wi...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:04 AM