Gábor Gergely
@ggergely.bsky.social
[gɑːbɔːr gɛrgɛj] Associate Professor of Film | Chair of BAFTSS www.baftss.org | Photo of Simplon Cinema courtesy of Fortepan/Preisich Family
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Gábor Gergely
@ggergely.bsky.social
· Sep 23
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...
www.baftss.org
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
www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html
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any faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible
a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
any faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible
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How does Hollywood separate the art from the “cancelled” artist after #MeToo and how does it use Eastern Europe for the operation? To find out, read our article co-authored with Anna Mártonfi, in Celebrity Studies. (Link gives free access to the first 50 viewers)
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JKJ8U...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JKJ8U...
‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur-directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe
An important ramification of the #MeToo movement has been its (re-)invigoration of debates about the cultural positions of arthouse cinema’s ‘problematic’ directors. While a somewhat peripheralised...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
How does Hollywood separate the art from the “cancelled” artist after #MeToo and how does it use Eastern Europe for the operation? To find out, read our article co-authored with Anna Mártonfi, in Celebrity Studies. (Link gives free access to the first 50 viewers)
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JKJ8U...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JKJ8U...
This article in Nature is wild. It makes a claim to analysing bias in online representation objectively in a way that would be funny if it weren't symptomatic of where we stand with humanities research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This article in Nature is wild. It makes a claim to analysing bias in online representation objectively in a way that would be funny if it weren't symptomatic of where we stand with humanities research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking forward to giving a research paper in York tomorrow with my long-time collaborator @havasjulia.bsky.social on East-West relations, popular media, the "Hungarian GoT" Hunyadi, nutty Cold War reprise The Gorge and think pieces which posit Orbán's Hungary as originator of Western illiberalism.
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Looking forward to giving a research paper in York tomorrow with my long-time collaborator @havasjulia.bsky.social on East-West relations, popular media, the "Hungarian GoT" Hunyadi, nutty Cold War reprise The Gorge and think pieces which posit Orbán's Hungary as originator of Western illiberalism.
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The BAFTSS PGR Poster Showcase is now open to applications for next year's annual conference in Bournemouth, 15-17 April 2026. You could win a prize of £150!
www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s...
#baftss #cfp #pgr #conference
www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s...
#baftss #cfp #pgr #conference
CALL: 2026 PGR Poster Showcase
The BAFTSS Executive Committee invites postgraduate members to showcase their doctoral research during the BAFTSS annual conference in Bournemouth, 15-17 April 2026. The PGR Research Poster...
www.baftss.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The BAFTSS PGR Poster Showcase is now open to applications for next year's annual conference in Bournemouth, 15-17 April 2026. You could win a prize of £150!
www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s...
#baftss #cfp #pgr #conference
www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s...
#baftss #cfp #pgr #conference
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.
hvg.hu/elet/2025100...
hvg.hu/elet/2025100...
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.
hvg.hu
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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.
hvg.hu/elet/2025100...
hvg.hu/elet/2025100...
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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
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.
tinyurl.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
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
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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.
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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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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...
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...
September 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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...
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...
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
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...
www.baftss.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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
www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html
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.
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).
September 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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.
At an international conference. The photographer is creating a buzz. (And evidence of buzz.)
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
At an international conference. The photographer is creating a buzz. (And evidence of buzz.)
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...
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
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
I wonder how bad it will be for academics when REF has been realigned (with what?).
2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...
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).
July 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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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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
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...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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
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
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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...
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...
link.springer.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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.)
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.
March 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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.)
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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
@baftss2025.bsky.social
#BAFTSS2025
@baftss2025.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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
@baftss2025.bsky.social
#BAFTSS2025
@baftss2025.bsky.social
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
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
#BAFTSS2025
March 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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
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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...
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...
cstonline.net
February 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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...
Abstracts due 25 April, further details here: cstonline.net/call-for-pap...
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).
February 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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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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...
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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February 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
Our letter in full: www.baftss.org/education-se...
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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!
February 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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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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...
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.
thelondonmagazine.org
February 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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...
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...