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! 🇫🇷

📢 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

📣 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

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

📣 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

📢 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

📢 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

📘 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

🎬 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”

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

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)“

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...