Nicholas Baer

yay, so excited to visit!!! 🤗

We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Nicholas Baer will give a talk at the University of Minnesota next Thurs (March 5th) at 5:30 PM in 216 Pillsbury Dr., Room 135. UMN folks, don't miss it!!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social

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Special Issue: PROVINCIALISING WEIMAR CULTURE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERWAR GERMANY A SPECIAL NUMBER: German Life and Letters: Vol 79, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

"Provincialising Weimar Culture" is out! @nwbaer.bsky.social, Britta Schilling and I edited a special issue for German Life and Letters on "local and global perspectives on interwar Germany": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483....

Deeply grateful for this generous, insightful, and eloquent review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Screen. Many thanks to Jane Gaines for reading my work so thoughtfully and for situating it within the broader history of the discipline.

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thanks, tanya - have a good holiday weekend!

Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed.

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Here's to ethical, sustainable modes of academic publishing in place of predatory extractivism.

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...

Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.

In my latest academic publication I propse to supplement the concept of dated film (Jamie Baron), which encompasses cultural and aesthetic datedness, by ideological datedness.

Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”.
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#academicbluesky

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congrats, can't wait to read!

Three people in person and one projected onto a large screen engage in discussion in a university seminar room

Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]

sold out both!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social but @columbiaup.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social have got all your fatal laughter AND historicist crisis needs covered!!!!

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Spotted at the #IlCinemaRitrovato FilmFair!!! 🎊🎞️📚 @nwbaer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Looking forward to the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference tomorrow!!!! If you're in Lisbon, come to our panel on Feminist Film Practices & Historical Recovery (in the C10 spot!). 🎞️❤️ necs.org/conference

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!

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tenured and promoted to associate professor! deeply grateful for the intellectual engagement and labor of so many colleagues at Berkeley and well beyond.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.

ah thanks, Slava! 🤗

Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!

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!

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Every year goes by too quickly! We're here for a few more hours at #SCMS25 so drop by for one last chance to view our latest books in cinema and media studies.

Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...

aw thanks for attending!! 🤗

#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics
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You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!

Standing room only at the Technics roundtable!! #SCMS25 @nwbaer.bsky.social

Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78 One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.

Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

thanks, Tyler!

thanks, Paul - looking forward to meeting in person!

definitely!

ah sorry to miss you, Shane! i'll be quoting from your great contribution to the volume!

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