kevinsmets.bsky.social
Professor media & culture. Teaches film history @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Social and political aspects of film culture. ERC project www.reelborders.eu. Research group ECHO: Media, Culture & Politics
👤 Joined on 01 November 2023
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@kevinsmets.bsky.socialWe start this new academic year with a new publication 🤓 "An Interspecies Contact Zone" studies locust invasions in interwar Burundi as a point of friction and encounter between Burundian peasants and colonial administrators. Available now in Environment & History: tinyurl.com/46yk54h2
Show PostA new publication by SHOC members Lukas Van Oost and prof. Benoît Henriet explores this question through the archives of the first years of Belgian colonial rule.
Show PostWhat did Belgium’s takeover of the Congo Free State in 1908 mean for the widespread violence inflicted on rainforest communities in the pursuit of wild rubber?
Show PostAudio in Moving Images starts on August 18! A four-part webinar series that offers an introduction to the essential role of audio in moving image materials, with a focus on the formats, challenges, and practices involved in preserving and working with sound. https://loom.ly/egSesC0
Show PostMany of us have been saying… Refusing to write with/by AI is absolutely a necessary “act of resistance against an ever-dumber world” (not to mention against the tech companies and powers that want to make us pliable, unthinking slaves)
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