We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers for the HoMER 2025 conference:
Nezih Erdoğan teaches Film Theory, Film History and Storytelling at Istinye University, Istanbul. He has published articles and book chapters on colonial discourse, national identity, and sound and body in Turkish popular cinema, the reception of Hollywood in Turkey, censorship and the distribution-exhibition of American films in Turkey. His chapter “Violent images: hybridity and excess in The Man who Saved the World” appeared in Mapping the Margins: Identity, Politics and the Media (2002). He co-edited Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context (with Miyase Christensen, 2008). His book, Sinemanın İstanbul’da İlk Yılları: Modernlik ve Seyir Maceraları/Early Years of Cinema in Istanbul: Adventures in Modernity and Spectatorship, was published in 2017. He co-edited with Ebru Kayaalp Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive, which came out from Amsterdam University Press (2023).
Nolwenn Mingant is a US History and Cinema professor at the University of Angers, France. Nolwenn Mingant’s area of expertise is the international distribution of Hollywood films, and she is the author of . She is a co-founding member of the research group CinEcoSA and co-organiser of the research seminar MENA Cinema. She has also led extensive research on film marketing, film policies around the world, as well as film industries in North Africa and the Middle East, and Transcultural Production Studies. Her current research project is an exploration of the link between cinema, spectators and the performance of gendered identities.
