Reel Borders studies how borders are imagined
through film
ICA 2022: Presentation and Top Paper finalist
On 30 May Lennart Soberon and Kevin Smets participated in the hybrid annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). The presentation was titled “Beating the border: playing with migrant experiences and borderveillant spectatorship in Channel 4’s Smuggled (2019) and was part of the panel Media, Politics and the Right to Expression. The paper was also one of the four finalists (postdoc and faculty category) for the Top Paper Award. The study will be published as part of a forthcoming book edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipl and Sandra Ponzanesi, so stay tuned for more news!