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InterACT @interactcofund.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚀 InterACT Call 1 is open! 7 international postdoctoral fellowships at Vrije Universiteit Brussel ✅ All disciplines welcome ✅ Science-policy impact ✅ Interdisciplinary & intersectoral collaboration Apply 👉interact-programme.be/apply #InterACT #Postdoc #MSCA #HorizonEurope

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New paper in @ijcs-journal.bsky.social: I discuss film culture in #Rojava (NE Syria) to critically reflect on the relations between autonomy, film, and revolution. Access here doi.org/10.1177/1367... (or contact me if you don't have access). @erc.europa.eu

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The new book is out! "Kinotopias" was written together with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez-Torres & @silviamaresia.bsky.social as part of the @erc.europa.eu project "Reel Borders". Get your copy here (hardcover + open access e-book): edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kinotop...

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Our forthcoming book 'Kinotopias: Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World' now has a cover ⤵️. Coming out later this year: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kinotop.... Great collaboration with Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutiérrez Torres and @silviamaresia.bsky.social.

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

⚡ 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.

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

From earlier this week: Irene Gutiérrez-Torres & I presenting a screening and talk about @erc.europa.eu Reel Borders, one of the final presentations of the project. Thank you NYU Steinhardt for hosting this session, which was introduced by Radha S. Hegde.

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

⚡ New paper in Third Text with Giacomo Toffano. In "Hybrid Aesthetics of Standby" we discuss 3 films (Flotel Europa/Havarie/Purple Sea) and how they disrupt the border spectacle through formal hybrid experimentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A very engaging student audience today at @cuny.edu during our lecture on Reel Borders with Irene Gutiérrez-Torres. Thank you @bilgeyesil.bsky.social for this opportunity!

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

⚡ Out now: Javnost-The Public special issue "The far-right and the politics of films, series and videogames", co-edited w @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, Omran Shroufi, Joke Bauwens & me. Full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/3...

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Karl van den Broeck @kvdb.apache.be · 16/10/2025

De academie die brandhout maakte van de Vlaamse canon, de KVAB, krijgt nu de rekening gepresenteerd. Ze verliest al (!) haar subsidies in 2026. Minister-president noemt de academie (die nochtans de Vlaamse kandidaat Nobelprijswinnaars voordraagt) geen kerntaak meer. apache.be/2025/10/16/d...

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Diependaele keldert Vlaamse academie die brandhout maakte van Vlaamse canon

De Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten verliest in 2026 al haar subsidies.

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

Title page of article in the journal Sensate: "Rethinking audiovisual methods. Using film as a tool to overcome borders." written by Irene Gutiérrez-Torres, Silvia Almenara-Niebla and Kevin Smets

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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

Kinotopias: film, place and belonging in a bordered world (title of forthcoming book). Authors: Kevin Smets, Lennart Soberon, Irene Gutierrez Torres, Silvia Almenara Niebla

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

(1/1) New! Film Atlas (filmatlas.com) is an online encyclopedia of film as a physical medium, featuring essays + images contributed by 200+ authors from 25+ countries.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Academic freedom in the Netherlands under pressure. New report from Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences @knaw-nl.bsky.social What is needed: 🚩 stronger freedom of research 🚩 less substantive government influence 🚩 support against intimidation and attacks www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-...

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Academische vrijheid in Nederland onder druk - KNAW

Academische vrijheid in Nederland onder druk

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apache/ @apache.be · 08/03/2025

De democratie wordt van alle kanten aangevallen en haar belangrijkste bewaker, de #onderzoeksjournalist, is een bedreigde soort. Daarom lanceert Apache het Fellowship Georges Timmerman. Help jij ons aan €50.000 om de opleiding van twee jonge waakhonden te financieren? Meer info op apache.be/FGT

GEZOCHT:
€ 50.000 voor de training van jonge honden

De onafhankelijke onderzoeksjournalist is een met uitsterven bedreigde soort. Terwijl we hem harder nodig hebben dan ooit.

Daarom start Apache een journalistiek kweekprogramma: het Fellowship Georges Timmerman

Genoemd naar de gelauwerde onderzoeksjournalist en founding father van Apache.

Help jij ons aan de 50.000 euro die we nodig hebben om twee jonge journalistieke talenten op te leiden tot waakhonden van de democratie?

Doneer via apache.be/FGT

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Two vacancies in a new research project, "Home Frames", on migration history & amateur film in Belgium, funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. Come work with Gertjan Willems (UAntwerpen) and myself (VUBrussel) on this exciting topic: 🎞️ www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca... 🎞️ jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-R...

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Doctoraatsbursaal binnen het domein filmstudies | Universiteit Antwerpen

YUFE vacature

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Vacancy posted by great colleagues @soasuni.bsky.social. A part-time postdoc position in the project "Archives of solidarity", for visual anthropologists or media scholars: vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/643848

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Postdoctoral Researcher at SOAS

Apply now for Postdoctoral Researcher, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS

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Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I wrote a book on how justice-driven documentaries teach us to listen—and how those listening habits can perpetuate injustice or bring about transformative change. Coming soon from Columbia UP, read more about it here: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-doc...

The title of the book (The Documentary Audit) appears in bold black text against a deep crimson background that fades to pink toward the bottom right. The book's subtitle (Listening and the Limits of Accountability) and the author's name (Pooja Rangan) appear in smaller pink letters.

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thank you Hannah & @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the invitation & great discussion afterwards!

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

More than 10 years after my first @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Boston, I'm so glad to be going to the next conference in Chicago. Looking forward to presenting Reel Borders research & reconnecting with the SCMS community 🎬

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The first episode of our podcast is out! Tune in to listen to Diogo Cabral on MTH history, leafcutting ants in the Amazon, the activist nature of #envhist and on the edited volume MTH histories of Latin America and the Carribbean ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

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Episode 1.01. Diogo De Carvhalo Cabral on history beyond the human

For the first episode of Foraging, we hosted Prof. Diogo de Carvhalo Cabral, of Trinity College Dublin. Diogo is a fascinating voice in more-than-human history. His groundbreaking research on the...

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the first season of "Foraging. A podcast in Environmental Humanities" 🌱: 4 in-depth interviews with historians and anthropologists on their work, methods, inspirations ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

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Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities – FORAGENCY

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Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Oh yeah and our latest contribution is a starter pack of critical border studies related people. We haven't met too many people on here yet so the list is just a beginning. To be added contact @arijerrems.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN 7/6

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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 11/11/2024

As our community here slowly grows, here is a starting list of people working on critical border studies, #migration journalists, #refugee storytellers, and border abolitionists like @hebagowayed.bsky.social @vwlegal.bsky.social @vanessid.bsky.social @nsharma101.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Love it when film scholars are invited to contribute to social science conferences. I just had the pleasure to deliver a keynote address at the conference "Mediterranean Crossings: Rotating Politics of Migration in the Mediterranean Space" reelborders.eu/AgadirConfer...

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AgadirConference — Reel_Borders

Keynote presentation On 9 November, Kevin Smets gave a keynote lecture on the Reel Borders project at the international conference “Mediterranean Crossings:...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

In "Remixing Wong Kar-Wai," Giorgio Biancorosso analyzes filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s use of pre-existing music to create the soundtracks for his films. Read the introduction for free now. ow.ly/nw7e50TPNTu

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

And this one is for Film and Media Studies: go.bsky.app/4Ui4fk8

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

As promised, the Popular Culture and Media Studies starter pack! If you work in this realm and would like to be added, just let me know. :) I wanted us all to be able to find each other here. go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Studying migration? This new Handbook of Research Methods in Migration offers a range of hands-on approaches for the field. I contributed a chapter on visual methods. Find out more here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... (the chapter is #openaccess).

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Together with Lennart Soberon, I published a new paper on border films. We analyse 43 films connected to the Irish border and develop a typology of different border mobilities. Read the full paper, open access, in the Irish Studies Review, here: doi.org/10.1080/0967....

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Today I had the pleasure to present for the first time at the conference of the Radical Film Network. I presented work with Irene Gutiérrez on the use of archives in participatory filmmaking. Read more about the network here (radicalfilmnetwork.com). More info: reelborders.eu/RFN-2024-Con....

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

The end of another semester of teaching #filmhistory. Thank you to Cinematek for hosting our classes & to a great, critical group of students. Main lesson learned this year = bringing world politics into class is appreciated by students. See you next year for more film history! 🎬

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

On 24 June, the VUB will host an exceptional lecture by Prof. dr. Kwame Appiah. Join us if you happen to be in Brussels, attendance is free but registration is mandatory, more info here: clic.research.vub.be/speaking-of-...

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"Speaking of Identity" - Guest Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU)

24 June 2024, 4 p.m., VUB Building I, Room I.0.01 A lecture in the series “Ties that Bind Us: Transcultural Perspectives on Social Forms”

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

A highlight of my film history course: visiting the Royal Film Archive of Belgium and its restoration lab with the students. Beautiful moment face to face with the original Chantal Akerman #JeanneDielman negatives #filmhistory

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

ABCeuta is online! This "alphabet of the border" of 26 short videos was made with 13 domestic workers who share their stories about lives affected by the border. On #WomensDay we share their stories & launch a petition. Find out more: abceuta.film. Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/por-favor-...

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

We are very grateful for the large turnout and thought-provoking questions we received during our inaugural event. 🙏 FORAGENCY will soon enter another stage, with new team members, research methods and questions. Stay tuned!

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

New publication in Emotion, Space & Society. With Silvia Almenara-Niebla, we report on ethnographic fieldwork conducted on the Irish border, and develop the cineforum method, a participatory visual elicitation method using film. Summary and link: reelborders.eu/EmotionSpace...

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

If you are in Brussels, you can explore the unexpected and rich histories of Belgian cinema, through 11 lectures and screenings. From February to May at Cinema RITCS. All information www.cinemaritcs.be/the-power-of.... I'll present animation film + "Taxandria" by Raoul Servais 🎦

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Refugee Hybrid Fiction. New #OpenAccess paper published with Giacomo Toffano in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture. Based a mapping of 98 cases, we argue for a politics of hybridity in media and migration that challenges conventional regimes of representation. Access: doi.org/10.1386/cjmc...

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

We are hiring !! 🔔 FORAGENCY is looking for a postdoc in Anthropology on past and present curative uses of the environment in Central Africa euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/172734 2 years, renewable for 2 further years, flex start date 1/04-1/10, do not hesitate to spread the word!

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

How do films reflect physical and symbolic borders between communities? We explore this with students in Adana in our participatory filmmaking workshop on the Turkish-Syrian border. So exciting to see them in action and see stories emerge. More information on www.reelborders.eu

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Eugenio Cusumano @eugenioc.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

job alert 🚨 I am hiring a post-doc working me on the securitization of irregular migration across the Mediterranean: pica.cineca.it/unime/adr-23...

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Awesome: our Reel Borders shorts from the Irish border are now available on Northern Ireland Screen's digital archive: digitalfilmarchive.net/collection/r... Social sciences + creativity + impact = ⚡⚡

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Reel Borders - Collections

Over 126 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2023, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

As part of Reel Borders, we organise #cineforums to discuss border stories and memories. Here are some impressions of yesterday in Samandağ (Hatay), with the solidarity initiative started after the earthquake. Film, talking and LOTS of çay. More info on www.reelborders.eu

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Hello & happy to introduce myself. I'm a media and cultural studies scholar working on migration, borders, conflict. I've worked a lot on Turkey and diasporic communities. Current project www.reelborders.eu deals with film & border relations. Passions include 🎬🪴🌈🚲 + why is there no 'equality' emoji?

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