Dr Ami Nisa

PARC Critical Autism Studies Online Conference 3rd March 9.45am-2pm (UTC). Events Join us for the return of the Participatory Autism Research Collective Critical Autism Studies Conference. This will be held online on 3rd March from 9.45am-2pm (UTC). 9.45 – 10.00    …

You can see the lineup and get your free tickets to the online event here participatoryautismresearch.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/p...

I’ll be presenting at the PARC Critical Autism Studies Online Conference tomorrow with @draimeegrant.bsky.social!

Our paper is titled:
“Authentic inclusion. Actual reasonable adjustments. A culture of acceptance”: Creating accessibility for community involvement in Autism research

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026 This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...

for those committed theory heads, spend yr Saturday reading my first ever journal article. Its open access over at Progress in Human Geography:

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge

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In doing so, I argue, we can being to re-center the possibility of radical, oppositional, and transformative politics as a central stake of posthuman theory and knowledge production.

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Taking work from my thesis, which I completed at @ncl-geography.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social, I put forward Rancière’s political theory and his critical reading practice, a ‘poetics of knowledge’ as a way of critiquing these debates.

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In it, I try to articulate a response to debates over the politics of posthuman theory, which centre on affirmations and negative approaches. I found these alternatives politically unsatisfying in relation to the scale of the ecological crises we face.

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I recently published my first article: The Poetics of Knowledge in the Anthropocene: The Politics of Posthuman Knowledge.

If you are interested in posthumanism, environmental crisis, radical politics or post-foundational theory, this might be of interest!

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Does your favorite filmmaker know about the 2026 Access:Horror film festival yet? Submissions are open for this year’s event, and we want to bring the best of the best to our audience later this year.

Send this to someone who needs to apply!

Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire - University of Tampa Press Studies in the Fantastic, in partnership with the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University, is proud to present the second in a series of blog posts highlighting new and exciting resear...

Check out this article by @ami-n.bsky.social - based on a paper presented at Horror Studies Now 2024, for which Dr Nisa received an Honorable Mention for the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies #horrorNU

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Publication day! Looking forward to the new I Know What You Did Last Summer or Scream VII?

Then check out my new book The Postmodern Slasher Film (or order it for your library)

30% off with the code NEW30 at @edinburghup.bsky.social

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CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture

Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26

I’m so glad you made it out to Tynemouth 💕 see you next year!!!! ☺️☺️☺️

28 Days Later started a zombie debate that's still raging today 28 Years Later will bring fast zombies back to cinemas, but some horror fans still think the undead should move at a snail's pace. What do the experts think?

Our own @drstevejones.bsky.social was interviewed for this article about zombies by @tomjbeasley.bsky.social

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@jplaczkiewicz.bsky.social was lovely meeting you at the conference! Hope your journey back home wasn’t too nightmarish!

Hahaha maybe we’ll meet again (properly) at the next one!

The line-up for Horror Studies Now @horrorstudies.bsky.social is looking really great! research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie...

I’ll be presenting a paper on the Thursday ~ “Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire” 🧛🏾‍♀️

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

Registration is now open for Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne)

For information on how to register and to see the line-up, visit: research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie...

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I haven’t seen the latest episode but I don’t think I’ve hated a character in a tv show as much as I hate Shauna!!! She’s the worst

It looks like a really special pog slammer

Love this!!!!

A new award graduate students who are working with video essays organised by the SCMS Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism special interest group (SIG). Please share this info with students you know and submit if you qualify (deadline this year will be June 1st).

2 - 12th June - online @autismtheology.bsky.social - forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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I have 2 webinars coming up where I'll be sharing my doctoral research and autoethnographic work I carried out alongside!

#AutRes #ReligiousStudies #DisabilityStudies #Inclusion

1 - 8th May - online @craeioe.bsky.social - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-imposs...

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Boosting this as I am employable again as a graphic designer/illustrator over the next few months. Got a project of some kind that I can make look sharp? Message me here or email benpbowsher@gmail.com

My MSc student Jess is looking for autistic and non-autistic people to take part in her study. If you have 20 mins spare and fancy taking part it would be hugely appreciated!

Still time to book! Please share widely, and any issues please direct to SocrelResponseDay2025@gmail.com

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She was iconic in that role!!!

I’ve just ordered a copy & I’m so excited to read it! (Serial Mom is one of my all time favourite films)

Book Review: Cecilia Sayad, The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) Cecilia Sayad The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the HorrorGenre (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). pp. 168, ISBN: 9780190065775(pb), £20.99; ISBN: 9780190065768 (hb), £81;...

I have a book review published in the latest Open Screens Journal www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/1...