Alice Lovejoy

@peggyflanagan.bsky.social at the SD66 convention “I am running to avenge Minnesota”

This Minnesota Winter Is the New Prague Spring I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary.

Film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on the parallels between the current ICE surge in Minneapolis, where she lives, and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Read through the end, deeply observed >>

Important historical analogue here

It’s also about the lesson that Czechoslovakia, 1968 has for us in 2026, whether or not we’re in Minnesota: stay out, stay in the streets.

Thank you to @apockros.bsky.social for editing so thoughtfully.

This Minnesota Winter Is the New Prague Spring I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary.

It was an honor to write for @thenation.com about Minnesota this winter and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

This is a piece about invasions and occupations: how we talk about them, what they look and sound like, the ways time feels within them.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War Book Talk & Discussion with author Alice Lovejoy, Dan Streible and Cristina Vatulescu

I'm looking forward to discussing Tales of Militant Chemistry on Monday at the NYU Center for the Humanities, with dream interlocutors @orphanfilm.bsky.social & Cristina Vatulescu. New York friends, please join us!

3/2, 12 pm, 20 Cooper Sq. Registration below:

www.eventbrite.com/e/tales-of-m...

E233 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy Podcast Episode · American Prestige · 20/01/2026 · 55m

By tracing Kodak's evolution from film pioneer to supplier of military materials, this conversation reveals how film production intersected with forced labor in Nazi Germany, nuclear fallout, and U.S. Cold War imperialism.

W/ @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on @amprestigepod.bsky.social

American Prestige “American Prestige” takes a comprehensive look at U.S. foreign policy and int'l affairs, providing listeners with everything they need to know about what's going on in the world.

Listen now: americanprestigepod.com/episodes/523...

Grateful for the chance to talk with @amprestigepod.bsky.social about Tales of Militant Chemistry!

It was such a pleasure to talk with @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social last fall!

Gastprofessur an der University of Alberta Zur Unterstützung der Forschungstätigkeit des Österreich-Zentrums in Alberta/Edmonton wird für hervorragende Postdocs einer österreichischen Universität eine Gastprofessur ausgeschrieben. Einreichfris...

Austrian professors in the Humanities + Social Sciences: Want to come to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social + @ualberta.bsky.social a as a Visiting Professor? Apply! Here's more information: oead.at/en/news/arti... Application materials here: grants.at/en/ Please share!

It’s an honor to be listed alongside these incredible titles; congratulations to @sho-walter.bsky.social, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @biologycarly.bsky.social, @judithweisenfeld.com, @adambecker.bsky.social, @dhbaron.bsky.social, and others.

These are Science News’ favorite books of 2025 Books about AI, Mars and infectious disease were among our top reads this year.

Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025!

@ucpress.bsky.social

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Thank you; this is very kind.

It was an absolute delight to be on the Cultures of Energy podcast. I’m grateful to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for reading the book so thoughtfully, and for talking silvichemicals, film flames and fumes, radiation lakes, transformation, and more…. @ucpress.bsky.social

In 1956 the US flew hundreds of spy balloons over the USSR. They carried specialized Kodak cameras and film to record everything they flew over. The USSR shot most of them down.

In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.

Hell, who wasn't.

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.

Did you know Kodak was a military contractor? grist.org/accountabili...

“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist

I’m thrilled to see Tales of Militant Chemistry discussed in @grist.org; thank you to @hurwitz.bsky.social for talking with me about Kodak-branded streetwear, the circular economy, and the chemical currents that make film’s military histories environmental histories. @ucpress.bsky.social

CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026.

amianet.org/resources/mo...

It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!

Impossible Creatures, Greenglass House

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!

This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:

www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

Thank you! That means a lot.

Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat

Gadget works / Red redemption David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road

“The Tennessee Eastman (as in: Kodak) Corp came to operate the Y-12 uranium separation plant, not because the company knew anything about separating uranium, but because it was very good at mass chemical production… It was uranium separated at Y-12 that was used in the bomb dropped in Hiroshima.”

Thank you, Shannon!

Gadget works / Red redemption David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road

TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...