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Webinar, 1 December@6.30pm (CET): "Researching South American cinemas: national contexts and global connections", with Maria Paz Peirano and Alejandro Kelly. Discussant Paolo Noto. Organised by AIRSC (Italian Association for Research on Film History). Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/8694741655...

Call for Papers
HoMER 2026: Cinema Communities and Community Cinemas
University of Exeter, UK | 8–10 July 2026
Pre-conference: 7 July 2026
Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline: 19 January 2026.
Further information:
Dr Matthew Rule-Jones — m.w.jones@exeter.ac.uk

IAMHIST has released the CFP for its 2026 Master Class:
iamhist.net/iamhist-mast...

Dear HoMERites,
The dates of the 2026 HoMER conference at the University of Exeter, UK. We will have a pre-conference day on 7th July, with the main conference commencing on 8th and ending on 10th July. CFP to follow.
Best wishes,
Matthew Rule-Jones and Talitha Ferraz (HoMER coordinators).

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Dear Homerites, Please join us for a webinar from TAP (The Audience Project research group, Oxford Brookes University) on
Fri. 12 Sept. 2025 at 12-1pm: "The Enchanting Kinora: Researching Edwardian Audiences," by
Prof. Elizabeth Evans, University of Nottingham. Abstract & link in comments.

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Call for participation in HoMER Working Groups As defined at the last AGM, held in Istanbul on 11 July 2025, over the coming 12 months (until the next edition of the HoMER Conference in 2026), we will have three working groups collaborating with t...

HoMER's recent AGM set up three working groups on:
1) A new hosting platform for the HoMER website;
2) A mapping project;
3) New administrative models for the HoMER Network.
Interested in one or more? Fill out this form by 4 August 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

After a wonderfully hospitable, engaged and thought-provoking conference in İstanbul, we look forward to continuing our conversations in Exeter next year!

Miradas a los públicos de cine en Latinoamérica

Reposting:
See the light of our dossier of the Rebeca Magazine "Looking at the cinema audiences in Latin America", co-edited by @arosasmantecon, Bianca Pires and who speaks to them.
Articles in Spanish & Portuguese. rebeca.socine.org.br/1/article/vi...
Thanks to all who worked to get this out!

#HoMERIstanbul2025 roundtable on Cinema and Palestine, with contributions from Ifdal Elsaket, Philippe Meers, Tamara Maatouk, Jeremy Randall, Claire Begbie and Ílke Şanlıer.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 Morgan Corriou, Caroline Damiens, Mélisande Leventopoulos and Judith Thissen discuss Alternative Tracks in Distribution and Exhibition.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 AydınÇam, Çiğdem Aksu Çam, Aynühayat Uybadın, Josh Carney and Sonay Ban discuss Power Struggles in Cinema, especially in relation to censorship.

Always a conference highlight: @homer-network.bsky.social's annual conference, this year in Istanbul, Turkey. I'm very happy to be here.

Here's more from our panel yesterday at #HoMERIstanbul2025! Thank you also to our panel chair, the fantastic Ana Rosas Mantecón, a long-term friend and associated member of the "Hollywood Memories" project!
@kathleenloock.bsky.social
@homer-network.bsky.social

#HoMERIstanbul2025 Senem Duruel Erkılıç, Karen Smith, Ariana Vietina and Berceste Gülçın Özdemir discuss Cinema Spaces and Urban Transformation.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 : Mélisande Leventopoulos, Özge Özyılmaz, Barçın Boğaç, Shakila Zamboulingame and Enes Akdağ discuss Cinema, Identity and Borders.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 is officially launched by Talitha Ferraz, Matthew Rule-Jones and Ayşe Tor Par.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 is underway with preconference workshops on the HoMER Vocabulary, mapping and postgraduate presentations.

Homerites interested in hosting the 2026 HoMER Conference: submit proposals to HoMER Network coordinators Matthew Jones (m.w.jones@exeter.ac.uk) & Talitha Ferraz (talitha.ferraz@gmail.com) by 9 July (Istanbul time zone, GMT+3).
AGM delegates will make the decision on 11 July.

Election for HoMER Network Coordinators 2026-2028 Please fill out the following form with the information of the board of candidates for the coordination of the HoMER Network 2026-2028. According to the HoMER Network Constitution, the coordination o...

At the HoMER Istanbul Conference, we will elect coordinators for the 2026-2028 period. Interested members should fill out the following form by 1pm on 11 July (Istanbul time, GMT+3): forms.gle/nfvJsP23qgWQ.... Check your email for further information.
See also: homernetwork.org/about/

CFP: Cinema Audiences in Latin America and the Caribbean (in Portuguese and Spanish) Públicos de Cine en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (Portugués y Español).
Rebeca (Brazilian Journal of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies). Deadline extended to 04/03/2025.
rebeca.socine.org.br/1/announceme...

Which fields do you want to include in the search?

SAVE THE DATE: HoMER data sprint on 22 January 2025 at 15:00-17:00 UTC+1 (Amsterdam time), to fill in missing definitions and translations in the HoMER vocabulary on venues. See the current state of the vocabulary here:
homernetwork.github.io/vocabulary/v...
And SAVE THE DATE: 22 January 2025.

Screen Studies Conference 2025 27 June - 29 June 2025, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland

Screen RE-turns: Screen Studies Conference 2025: We are delighted to announce our two keynote speakers (who themselves return to Screen): Professor Annette Kuhn, Professor Helen Wheatley tinyurl.com/5wcwx732

Deadline approaching (2 Dec) for the 2025 Women and Film History International conference's “Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema.” The conference will take place in Brussels from June 11-14, 2025 More details here: www.wfhi.org/2025-brussel....

Just published: Michael Aronson's book on regional independent film exhibition in the American Pacific Northwest during the silent and early sound periods focuses on independent entrepreneur, John Hamrick.
📷 Learn more and order your copy 📷 www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/joh...

Absolutely!

Done! Thanks, Martin!

The HoMER Network is on Bluesky and ready to connect with anybody interested in cinema history!
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Annual Conference 2024 HoMER 2025 Conference: Cinema and ConflictDates: 8-11 July 2025Location: Galatasaray University, Istanbul, TurkeyDeadline for proposals: 19 January 2025Letters of acceptance/rejection: 17 February …

HoMER 2025 Conference: Cinema and Conflict.
Dates: 8-11 July 2025.
Location: Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Proposals deadline: 19 January 2025. Letters of acceptance/rejection: 17 February 2025.
More details: homernetwork.org/annual-confe...
Submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/199RW_