The annual NYU Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference organized by our first-year PhDs is calling for papers and projects for the 2024 conference titled "holding the gaze". ☺️ Please find the CFP below and the deadline to submit is December 8th. 🥰

USC administration has until November 28th to come to the table with fair offers and stop committing unfair labor practices. If they fail to do so, GSWs will strike starting Tues. 11/28. Up until then, admin has the power to agree to a fair contract and keep USC running.⌛️

Happening this weekend and free to the public! Come watch some amazing films with us at Tisch. RSVP is in the QR code. 🥰🥰

Cui Zi’en—China’s most famous & controversial queer filmmaker & activist—presents ten queer coming-of-age stories in “Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet. “ Read the intro for free & pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon CYBER23! #LGBTQStudies ow.ly/5qFO50Qe8Eu

Bliss Cua Lim’s “The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema” analyzes the Philippine film archiving's crisis-ridden history of Philippine film. Read the free intro & pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon CYBER23! #AnthroTwitter ow.ly/A2Zt50Qe8S6

The new NECSUS issue is out. I have a piece on the Asian Film Festival Berlin and its roots in feminist migrant labor organizing, highlighting the ways that minoritized communities challenge their absencing from history, cultural legacy, and differential access to longevity.

Materialized. I’m full of gratitude to friends, teachers, colleagues and students for sustaining me, to my editor Philip Leventhal for patient shepherding, and to my intellectual homes EALAC , WEAI and Center for Comparative Media for support and community.

February 23-24: holding the gaze Student Conference RSVP here: tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies… (4/4)

Join author Feng-Mei Heberer at the Darren Star Theater on Feb 14th for a book talk on "Undoing Documentation as Racialized State Surveillance." Co-sponsored by CSW|Streisand Center and UCLA TFT. Explore visual documentation's impact on border control. csw.ucla.edu/event/book-tal…

Getting excited for SCMS in Boston, and for this triple book celebration with Maggie Hennefeld @magshenny, Grazia Ingravalle, Rob King, and Charlie Keil! #scms

Our presentation is on Thursday at 2:15pm 🥰 Come watch some wonderfully weird analog film format (8.75mm) with us! Thank you Dan and everyone for putting the program together it looks absolutely amazing!

This Friday: Queering State Power in Asian Diasporic World-Making will explore different artistic responses to statelessness: tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies….

So hey I'm going to SCMS 2024 and here's our panel. I never really know how to do academia Twitter 😂 But check us out if you are interested! #scms2024

In this article, I ask what would it mean to understand the logics of digital platforms to be not merely exceptional but built on ongoing gendered, racial, and geopolitical economies of service work? journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

My first journal article "Shudders in the Neoliberal Machine" just came out on Media Fields Journal!! Free, open-access on: mediafieldsjournal.org along with other amazing articles in the issue!

Friends are welcome to this online book talk on April 2, 4pm (Hong Kong time). Many thanks to Prof Kenny Ng for the kind invitation! Hong Kong Baptist University WEAI Columbia University Press EALAC

Just made a BlueSky account! ☺️Trying to switch over, please follow meee: bsky.app/profile/lvweny…

Hi friends! I am organizing a 2026 Graduate Student conference at NYU titled “Sprockets/Selvage/Shores”. We are looking for traditional papers as well as projects/workshops. The deadline is December 5th 2025, and all the details can be found on this page: tisch.nyu.edu/research-study…