Nicholas Baer
Associate Professor of German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
- Deeply grateful for this generous, insightful, and eloquent review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Screen. Many thanks to Jane Gaines for reading my work so thoughtfully and for situating it within the broader history of the discipline. academic.oup.com/screen/artic...
- Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed. necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...
- Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.
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- excited for the NECS conference in Lisbon! Join us tomorrow (Thursday, June 19) at 9:00 for a workshop on "Creative Reuse: Navigating the Archive" with Deniz Göktürk, Grazia Ingravalle, Alexandra Schneider, and Jaap Verheul as well as a video essay by Ritika Kaushik! necs.org/conference
- tenured and promoted to associate professor! deeply grateful for the intellectual engagement and labor of so many colleagues at Berkeley and well beyond.
- Reposted by Nicholas BaerIMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.
- Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!
- honored to keynote the 20th CMS grad student conference at UChicago next weekend on “Failing Media." Join us for two days of panels along with a faculty roundtable and performance by Gibson + Recoder. Many thanks to Hugo Ljungbäck and Nat Modlin for organizing! voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/
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- Reposted by Nicholas Baer#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics www.aup.nl/en/book/9789.... You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!
- Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25
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- Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25
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- Friends in Philly: I'll be sharing my work at Penn this Wednesday at noon. Would love to see you there! cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
- Linda Williams led a truly extraordinary life—a model of fearless inquiry, principled struggle, and joie de vivre. I'm grateful beyond measure for her pathbreaking scholarship and rigorous mentorship over the years. Her words continue to resonate.
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- Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024). events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
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- @bampfa.bsky.social welcomes filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa for a residency from January 30–February 8. Join us for a Mosse lecture and seven screenings. Loznitsa and I will discuss his harrowing documentary Babi Yar. Context (2021) this Friday, January 31, at 2:30 pm. bampfa.org/program/serg...
- it was super invigorating being in conversation with Donna Jones on Weimar cinema, crisis, and historical pessimism at Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. The recording is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeO-...
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- Mladen Dolar, Rumors (2025)
