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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 9d

News from the Evil Empire of Academic Publishing: In June Taylor & Francis acquired the back catalogue of Amsterdam University Press' film and media series. As a consequence the majority of the series editors publicly resigned and decided to move their series to /

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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis - NECSUS

July 9, 2025

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · 10d

first copies delivered in NYC!!!
thanks to @mesonpress.bsky.social
book launch coming up soon, RSVP at: www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2025-ev...

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · 14d

feeling young at #cbgb

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 19d

In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · 20d

thanks for your warning, i just did the same, will miss the AI podcasts though (joke)

wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · 24d

New Yorkers, get your tickets for this FREE event celebrating my new book! October 9, at 7pm, at Lenfest Center for the Arts. Details of the screening will be announced soon.
www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2025-ev...

‘Children Reinventing Cinema’ — Lenfest Center for the Arts

Please join us for an evening with short films made by kids from the past and the present in celebration of Children Reinventing Cinema, new book by Adjunct Professor Wanda Strauven and Alexandra ...

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Sep 2

happy to be teaching new course on “what is an image?” at columbia

wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love the screen!

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Aug 29

wisdom along the hudson river

wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Aug 26

amor pedestre by marcel fabre

wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.rockawayfilmfestival.org

Home

Rockaway Film Festival presents cinema and other arts at the coastal edge of New York City, joining artists and audiences for unique collective experiences.

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Aug 21

wonderful opening night at rockaway 8 filmfest

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Aug 15

“her scent of mystery” at olfactory art keller, an amazing media archaeological multi-sensory exploration #smellovision

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 29

I want that t-shirt!

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 26

back to anthology for WANDA

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 22

color-coded royal family on belgian national day

wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 19

3D kodachromes on display at anthology film archives

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 15

this is really sad to hear but please keep on playing!

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 15

move to italy! they love children

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · Jul 11

Editors in control.

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Editors stage mass resignation after academic publisher sold

Amsterdam University Press series editors quit with open letter objecting to sale to for-profit publisher

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 9

now with updated list of 30 signatories

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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

“GR Stocks” auf unsplash 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 & Franc...

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 9

our statement is out!

www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

28 editors resign after takeover at publisher AUP

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jul 4

i was able to tune in from the train, wonderful talk indeed!

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wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social · Jun 21

our little book is officially launched, freely downloadable in glorious open access at meson press: meson.press/books/childr...

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jun 19

Out now in open access from @mesonpress.bsky.social in the Cofigurations of Film book series (@dfg.de GRK 2279 "Konfigurationen des Films" @goetheuni.bsky.social):

Alexandra Schneider, Wanda Strauven

Children Reinventing Cinema
Snapshots from the Early 21st Century

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Children Reinventing Cinema. Snapshots from the Early 21st Century › meson press

Expanding on a media-archaeological approach to film history, this book maps children’s playful and imaginative knowledge of contemporary media culture and explores their filmmaking practices that pus...

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