ALT Sarina Weigman and Leah Williamson celebrate together

ALT Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our second roundtable of the day is on "Perspectives within "New" and "Emerging" Media" and will feature Prof John Wills (University of Kent), Dr Stephen Morgan (KCL), and Dr Sara Polak (Leiden University). 📍Online 🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 14:15-15:30 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨ i with sign "American Indian Movement" on the grounds of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., during the "Longest walk" by Warren Leffler “Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing left, speaking at microphones, during anti-war demonstration, New York City” by Don Rice “AIDS quilt on display in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol in the background” by Carol Highsmith “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emmanuel Leutze

ALT John Wills is a Professor in Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK and a co-editor of the European Journal of American Culture (Intellect). His research interests include atomic film and culture, environmental protest and environmental disaster, and US game studies. John is the author of seven books, including, most recently, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) and with Esther Wright, Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth and Violence in the Video Game West (Oklahoma UP, 2023). He is currently completing a new book, on Doom Town and atomic culture, with the University Press of Kansas Social Media: @drjonw (X); @drjohnwills.bsky.social (BlueSky) John is pictured wearing glasses.

ALT Dr. Stephen Morgan (he/him) is Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. His research focuses on the cinemas of settler nations, as well as the Indigenous cinemas of Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa / New Zealand. Broader efforts to reconceptualise settler national cinema in these spaces includes his upcoming monograph, Ealing Abroad: Post-War British Cinema, Settler Colonialism and Ealing Studios in Australia, which will be published by BFI/Bloomsbury in 2026. Bluesky: @drsmorgan.com Stephen is pictured in black and white smiling

ALT Sara Polak (she/her) is university lecturer in American Studies at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, research fellow on the NWO project Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds, and PI of the ERC project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028. She has published a monograph FDR in American Memory (John Hopkins UP, 2021) and is working on a book about How Trump Plays. @sarapolak.bsky.social Sara is pictured smiling.