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!

necs.org/conference

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!

voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/

Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25

Friends in Philly: I'll be sharing my work at Penn this Wednesday at noon. Would love to see you there!

cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

Linda Williams led a truly extraordinary life—a model of fearless inquiry, principled struggle, and joie de vivre. I'm grateful beyond measure for her pathbreaking scholarship and rigorous mentorship over the years. Her words continue to resonate.

Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024).

events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...

@bampfa.bsky.social welcomes filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa for a residency from January 30–February 8. Join us for a Mosse lecture and seven screenings. Loznitsa and I will discuss his harrowing documentary Babi Yar. Context (2021) this Friday, January 31, at 2:30 pm.

bampfa.org/program/serg...

it was super invigorating being in conversation with Donna Jones on Weimar cinema, crisis, and historical pessimism at Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. The recording is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeO-...

Mladen Dolar, Rumors (2025)