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SERCIA is a European academic society that promotes the study and teaching of cinema and television produced in English-speaking countries, and English-language films and series produced worldwide.
The 2026 SERCIA Conference is officially over! 🎬✨

A huge thank you to the organizing committee, @univpaulvalery.bsky.social, and everyone who participated for making this such an exciting and inspiring conference!

Special thanks to Kenneth Longden for the pictures! 📸

See you next year in Lille! 🇫🇷
September 7, 2026 at 7:59 AM
📢 The 26th SERCIA Conference website is now up!

"The Environment in English-Language Cinema and Series"

📍 Montpellier · 📅 2–4 September 2026

Registrations open 🔗 sercia-2026-mtp.sciencesconf.org

#FilmStudies #Ecocriticism #CinemaStudies
June 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
📣 Final CICLAHO session of the year!
Sat, June 6, 2026, 9:30 AM, Amphi W (Max Weber building), Université Paris Nanterre.
🎙️ True crime as a popular serial genre (Delanoë-Brun & Toulza)
🎙️ CinemaScope & the western crime film, 1954–59 (Gosselin)
#TrueCrime #FilmStudies #Western
May 27, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Final session of “The US Working Class On and Off Screen” today (May 18, 4–5:30 PM, Paris time)! dereknystrom.bsky.social (McGill) discusses Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men with respondent Marine Soubeille (@upcite.bsky.social ). In person + online:
univ-artois-fr.zoom.us/j/99922417127
May 18, 2026 at 7:06 AM
New release! 📘 Les super-héros dans le cinéma hollywoodien contemporain : innovations esthétiques et transmédialités 🎬🦸‍♂️
@editionspur.bsky.social
pur-editions.fr/product/1050...
#FilmStudies #CinemaStudies #Superheroes
Presses universitaires de Rennes
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May 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
📣 Reminder: proposals for “Another Texas” due May 15, 2026.

Symposium on representations of Texas and its diversity in cultural productions.
📍 Université Paris Cité, Nov. 6, 2026
📍 Albi, 2027

📄 300–400 word abstract + short bio
🔗 CFP: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/manifestatio...

#CFP #AmericanStudies
Journée d’étude “Another Texas? Exploring the Rich Diversity of the Lone Star State (1970s-2020s)” Nov 6, 2026 | Echelles
echelles.u-pariscite.fr
April 28, 2026 at 11:13 AM
📣 Seminar this week!

@aimloiselle.bsky.social on Norma Rae (1979) & the invisibilization of Puerto Rican women workers

📅 April 16 (4–5:30 PM, Paris)
📍 Paris Cité / online

🔗 echelles.u-pariscite.fr/echelles/res...

#FilmStudies #GenderStudies #PuertoRicanStudies #LaborHistory #Intersectionality
April 14, 2026 at 10:47 AM
⏳ 2 weeks left to submit!

📢 CFP: Queering Kubrick
🔗 www.gendercampus.ch/fr/actuel/ap...

#CFP #FilmStudies #QueerCinema
Queering Kubrick — Gendercampus
www.gendercampus.ch
April 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
📢 CICLAHO Seminar – Paris Nanterre

📅 March 14, 9:30am
🎤 Valentine Franc — contemporary revisions of the Hollywood woman’s film
🎤 Joanne Vrignaud — Taylor Sheridan’s neo-western

📍 Amphitheatre Max Weber (Building W)

#FilmStudies #CICLAHO

#FilmStudies #CICLAHO #CinemaStudies #Hollywood
March 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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⭐️ 29e Festival Ecrans britanniques & irlandais
➡️ cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/agen...
🗓️ du 13 au 22 mars
📍 Nîmes
L'invité d'honneur de la 19ème édition du festival est le réalisateur irlandais Jim Sheridan.
#EnglishTeachers #cinema @saesfrance.org @sercia.bsky.social
March 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
📢 New publication!

Film Journal Issue 12 (2025): “Minority Voices and Languages in English-Speaking Cinema and Television”, edited by Mikaël Toulza.

Read it on OpenEdition:
journals.openedition.org/filmj/2112

#FilmStudies #MediaStudies #CinemaStudies #TelevisionStudies
March 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
📘 New Agrégation prep guide out!
Covering Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) and Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson).
Congrats to Delphine Louis-Dimitrov & Vincent Jaunas!
#Agrégation #EnglishStudies #Literature #FilmStudies
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🎬 New CICLAHO session!
📅 Sat Jan 31, 9:30 | 📍 Univ. Paris Nanterre
🎤 Francesco Schiariti (FR): “Girls Next Door and Tragic Heroines: The Paradox of Postwar Hollywood Actresses”
🌍 Ling Zhang (EN): “Transnational Feminist Mediation: The Other Half of the Sky (1975) and American Women’s Documentary”
January 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
The CfP "Another Texas? Exploring the Rich Diversity of the Lone Star State" is out NOW!
This 2-day symposium will take place in Paris Cité in November 2026 and in Albi in fall 2027. Feel free to read and share.
#CFP #FilmStudies #AmericanStudies #CulturalStudies #Conference
January 23, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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New publication in Ekphrasis, available in OA: "The Messiah of Youth: Ageism, Power, and Space in Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024)"
ekphrasisjournal.ro/index.php?p=...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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📢 Deadline Extended!

‼️ CFP for the 6th Seminar in English Studies (SEING VI) is still open, and you now have more time to submit your abstracts!

⏰ NEW DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 2ND ⏰

🗓️ May 8th, 2026
📍 Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Don’t miss the chance to participate!
More details ⬇️
January 16, 2026 at 9:08 AM
📢 New issue of Film Journal out now!
Issue 11 — The Politics of Silence and Noise in U.S. Film and Television (2025), edited by Claire Dutriaux & Marianne Kac-Vergne.

📖 Free access on OpenEdition: journals.openedition.org/filmj/1835

#FilmStudies #MediaStudies #USFilm #TelevisionStudies #OpenAccess
11 | 2025 The Politics of Silence and Noise in U.S. Film and Telev...
Film journal explore de nouvelles perspectives en histoire, théorie, narration et esthétique du cinéma anglophone - Film journal explores new perspectives on anglophone film history, theory, narrat...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Best wishes for 2026 from the SERCIA Executive Board!
📣 CFP — The Environment in English-language Cinema and Series
26th SERCIA Conference | Sept 2–4, 2026
Univ. Paul-Valéry Montpellier (France)
⏰ Deadline: April 15, 2026
🔗 www.sercia.net/news/confere...
See you in Montpellier!
2026 SERCIA Conference - The Environment in English-language Cinema and Series - SERCIA - Société pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche du CInéma Anglophone
CfP The Environment in English-language Cinema and Series 26th SERCIA Conference 2-4 September 2026 University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France Keynote lecturers: Emmanuelle André (Université Paris-...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Don't miss the first CICLAHO session of the year!

📅 Saturday, 29 November – 9:30 AM
📍 Université Paris Nanterre

Two talks on Hollywood and history:

🎬 Emma Lathuillière - “Hollywood’s antiquity films and hegemonic masculinity“.

🎖️ Frédéric Cavé – “World War II veterans in Hollywood (1944–51)“
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Don’t miss the upcoming conference British Noir: Literature, Film, TV Series, held in Paris and Nanterre from November 6 to 8!
Full program and details: crea.parisnanterre.fr/colloques-et...
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I'm thrilled to announce that Dec 9 I’ll deliver an online lecture at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on epidemic cinema. Don't miss it! 👉 miskatonicinstitute.com/events/do-no...
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Do Not Touch! The Rise of the Epidemic Cinema Genre (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
From zombie apocalypses to deadly contagions, the early twenty-first century saw an unprecedented proliferation of fictional narratives centered on highly transmissible pathogens, building on past epi...
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September 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Today I will be presenting a paper on Villeneuve's Dune adaptations at the SERCIA conference in Cluj-Napoca (panel B2) @sercia.bsky.social @spacescinema.bsky.social @iedis.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM