SCMS 2025 program—observations, highlights, and trends…

Speculative Methodologies and Archival Afterlives – roundtable featuring Allyson Nadia Fields, editor of two special issues of Feminist Media Histories on “Speculative Approaches to Media Histories” (Vol 8.2 and Vol 8.3, Summer 2022)

Award for best Edited Collection to Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (ed. by Alix Beeston and Stephen Solomon)

Multiple panels on women’s authorship/feminist approaches to authorship

Industrial Studies approaches/methods remains strong (dominant?)

“Escapism and Episodism: The Restorative Pleasures of Sitcom Temporality” – paper by Caitlin Benson Allott (see below!)

And on the subject of Jameson, New Historicism vs Historicizing, and the obsolescence of the Method Wars—Week 10: American Vandal, “Always Historicize?” – with Anna Kornbluh (and also a short tribute to Jameson)