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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 3h

The river police's 'what the horse prick is this' is actually a very sensible question to a man in an expensive plastic bucket in the middle of one of the busiest waterways in Europe where collisions between pleasure boats and freighters have had tragic consequences.

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Magyar vízi rendőr a német kajakozónak a Dunán: This is… Mi a lófasz ez? – Videó

Felfújható minikajakkal hozta zavarba a magyar folyami rendőröket egy német világutazó.

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Tim Lindemann @timlinfilm.bsky.social · 7d

Finally ready to share this!

Symposium: Chloé Zhao’s Transnational Cinema: Nomads, Cowboys, Superheroines

Friday, November 7 2025, University of Portsmouth

Keynote: Dr Kiki Yu (QMUL)

Roundtable: Prof. Yannis Tzioumakis (Liverpool), Prof. Rob Stone (Birmingham)
Please share!
tinyurl.com/34j84yuj

Chloé Zhao’s Transnational Cinema: Nomads, Cowboys, Superheroines

A symposium held at the University of Portsmouth exploring transnational themes in the work of Chinese-American director Chloé Zhao.

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BAFTSS Adaptation SIG @adaptationsig.bsky.social · 10d

We'll shortly be putting a call out for the BAFTSS SIG Panel next April in Bournemouth - check your inboxes this afternoon. If you didn't get it, but would like to be on the panel, get in touch.

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martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 16d

JOB: lecturer/assistant professor in global film and media studies.

5yr contract, salary scale €64,753-€102,538, closes noon (Irish time) on October 20th.

pls share and lmk if you have any questions!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU194/l...

ad for job at ucd, crucial para reads:
We welcome applications for the post of Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media Studies. We are

interested in applications from candidates who can expand the geographical and historical range of our subjects, and

particularly from those with expertise in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and/or Latin America. Those with
expertise in indigenous media cultures from any region are also welcome. Film and Media Studies is a vibrant, always-
growing area of teaching and research in UCD, and we are seeking an excellent academic with a proven track record of teaching, research and publication to expand the range of our expertise. The post offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the design and development of our expanding undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and to collaborate with colleagues to build and promote the subject's reputation for excellence in research. Candidates will be asked to teach a first year module, Media and Globalization, as well as being able to offer ambitious and innovative ideas for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in aspects of their regional specialty, global cinemas and film histories, as well as research-focused modules for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate seminars.

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 16d

Thrilled to share the very open Call for Proposals for BAFTSS 2026 on 15-17 April in Bournemouth. Amid all the stress and uncertainty of HE, the annual conference is a great place to reconnect, reflect, think new thoughts and make new plans. Join us! @baftss.bsky.social

www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html

CFP 2026

The 14th annual BAFTSS Conference will take place 15-17 April at the Bournemouth Highcliff Mariott Hotel. Keynote speaker : Professor Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths) This year, BAFTSS embarks on...

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 19d

So tired of seeing this framing time and again (that US is adopting Orbán’s policies and strategies). Hungary did not originate what’s going on in the US today. Hungary is an importer, not an exporter of this type of politics. But I guess it’s easier to blame Eastern Europeans.

Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Jan 8

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).

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 21d

At an international conference. The photographer is creating a buzz. (And evidence of buzz.)

A photographer pointing a camera at me with mostly empty chairs all around.

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Sep 9

viewjournal.eu/articles/10....

Beasts from the East: Fantasies of Eastern Europeanness in Brexit-era BBC Drama | VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Sep 9

We’ve talked about Bogdan & the adaptation’s politics as part of this wider work.

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Sep 9

@havasjulia.bsky.social & I work on this sort of representation of Eastern Europeans/ness & have written about Dracula (the BBC series), Killing Eve & working on The Brutalist & have a special issue of TVNM with @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social in the works on US television imaginings of Europe.

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Sep 4

Interesting news of pause to REF prep. I wonder if motivated by concern that REF is drifting out of alignment with strategy or failing to shift into alignment with current strategy.

I wonder how bad it will be for academics when REF has been realigned (with what?).

2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Pause to REF 2029 criteria setting and publication of final guidance – REF 2029

2029.ref.ac.uk

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Jul 22

The last time someone not educated at Oxbridge according to their Wikipedia page became President of the British Academy was in 1985. 🙄 That was Randolph Quirk (Yale and UCL).

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · Jul 9

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.

mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

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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Ivan Kalmar @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

Farewell to the liberal consensus: the intellectualisation of political projects in Poland and Hungary - European Political Science

The article investigates the intellectual foundations of the political projects led by Jarosław Kaczyński and Viktor Orbán. We demonstrate that next to homegrown populist and traditionalist ideas, the...

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Tim Lindemann @timlinfilm.bsky.social · Jun 30

@germanatportsmouth.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social @devorashawa.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thank you Rick, Mary, Douglas, James and Pietari and the whole team. You have worked so very hard. BAFTSS is a special conference: it’s always uniquely BAFTSS, but it’s also unique to the host institution each time. Can’t wait to see what it’s like at Bournemouth. (But first some rest.)

BAFTSS Conference 2025 @baftss2025.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thanks so much to all our delegates at #BAFTSS2025! We're honoured to have been able to host so many fantastic papers, films and other events. We wish everybody who's travelling home today a safe journey.

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BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · Mar 28

Very well done to all our PGR poster competition entrants this year and congratulations to those shortlisted: @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social (Honourable Mention); Sarah Bell (Runner-Up) and Liaoliao Wu (Winner)! 👏

#BAFTSS2025

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · Mar 25

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.

#BAFTSS2025

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · Feb 24

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...

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

Co-editors: Gábor Gergely, Júlia Havas, Victoria K. Pistivsek What is “Europe”? The term is far from self-evident. The emerging canon of Eastern European decolonial sociological scholarship shows that...

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Feb 11

Reviewer 2 in the age of AI: competing titles listed in proposal review were misattributed and in one case entirely fictive, a made up title by a made-up author (not found in national reference library, nor on Google Books/Scholar by full title, author or subject keywords).

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Feb 10

If the pigeons fall from the sky, the core has stopped. So 🤞 the pigeons stay airborne.

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · Feb 5

And yet cuts planned across the sector aren’t seen in relation to the devastating negative impacts they’ll have on livelihoods, communities and all those who engage with, benefit from or participate in arts and humanities research and education. We know they aren’t, otherwise they wouldn’t cut!

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BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · Feb 5

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...

Letter to Education Secretary - 4 February 2025

Constitution | Inclusivity Statement | Contact Us | Join BAFTSS / Sign In © British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), 2021-4. Website maintained by Johnny Walker .

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Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social · Feb 3

Are you a BAFTSS member attending next month's conference, but have limited/no access to funding? @baftss.bsky.social offers 5 bursaries of £200 to help with travel & other costs. More info: www.baftss.org/funding.html And don't forget the Quarterly Travel Fund to access support for other events!

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 3

In other news, we had some exciting pieces up on our website over the past few weeks.

An extract from 'Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear' (@silver-press.bsky.social), @joyousnoises.bsky.social wrote about gender and technology.

Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-low-qu...

Essay | Low-quality Sonic Snapshots by Marie Thompson - The London Magazine

The following essay on gendered technology is an extract from Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear, edited by Irene Revell and Sarah Shin.

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