Research

Publications, conferences, research projects, editorial roles, and professional activity.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published or in press.

MonographForthcoming

Ceddo Film and Video Collective

Piqueras-Pérez, María. London: Palgrave.

ArticleIn Press

"Creating Black British Counter-Memories through Archival Intervention and Audio-Visual Remediation. The Passion of Remembrance's Montage as a Case Study"

Atlantis 49, no. 1

Book ChapterIn Press

"The 1980s Film and Video Workshops Ceddo, Black Audio Film Collective and Sankofa highlighting the Importance of Television"

In TV and Sustainability, edited by Elke Wasserman and David Palantinus. London: Peter-Lang

Article2026

"Negotiating Identity in Sankofa's In-Between: The Opacity of Postcolonial Subjectivity"

Open Cultural Studies 10 (1): 1–13 (2026)

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Review2023

"Slow Emergency Siren Ongoing: Accessing Handsworth Songs"

MIRAJ: The Moving Image Review & Art Journal 12 (December 2023): 290–296

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Article2022

"Excavating Ceddo Film and Video Workshop: Navigating Censorship through The People's Account (1986) and Reading Meaningful Silences with Culture for Freedom (1990)"

ESSE Messenger 31, no. 2 (Winter 2022): 33–46

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Article2021

"Counterhegemonic Representations against Police Brutality and Media Indoctrination: 'The People's Account' (1986) and 'Racism: a Response' (1990) by Ceddo Film and Video Collective"

Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 63 (November 2021)

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Book ChapterIn Press

"Brushing History 'against the Grain': the Hidden Visual (Hi)stories of Black Britain through Silences and Absences. The case of Ceddo, The Black Audio Film Collective and Sankofa"

In Disrupting Dominance in the Archive, edited by James Frenwick. London: Bloomsbury

Book Chapter2025

"'We Have Our Own Black Heroes': British Black Power and the Figure of Michael X as Represented in Who Needs a Heart? (1991) by Black Audio Film Collective"

In Fragments of Meaning. Seville: University Pablo de Olavide, 2025

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Book Chapter2021

"Mixed-identity in the Liverpudlian Black Community as Represented in John Akomfrah's Documentary A Touch of the Tar Brush: a New English Identity"

In Narratives of Displacement, edited by Miriam Sette. Milano: Biblion Edizioni, 2021. pp. 25–50

Blog2024

"The Radical Legacies of the Black British Workshops"

Cinema and Social Justice Project (October 2024)

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Blog2020

"The Power of Social Protests: Black Lives Matter and the Washington R*dskins Football Team"

PopMeC Research Blog (December 2020)

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Conferences & Symposia

Papers and presentations delivered at national and international academic conferences.

Showing 23 of 23 presentations.

2025

4

"Black Skin, White Mask: Britishtalgia, Errantry and the Articulation of Subjectivity in Sankofa's In-Between (1992)"

48th AEDEAN Conference, University of the Basque Country

"The Re-turn of Ghana's Forgotten Socialist Past in Testament by Black Audio Film Collective"

9th Memory Studies Association Conference, Charles University (Prague)

"Unpacking the Crisis with It's a Sin"

Critical Studies in Television Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University / Edge Hill

In collaboration with Dr Corpus Navalón-Guzmán

"Cinema as a Tool to Codify Cultural Memory: the Griot as a Visual Time-Traveller in Ceddo's Time and Judgement (1988)"

32nd Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow University

2024

4

""We Have Our Own Black Heroes": British Black Power and the Figure of Michael X as Represented in Who Needs a Heart? (1991) by BAFC"

47th AEDEAN Conference, University Pablo de Olavide (Seville)

"Challenging the State of The Nation in Film and Television through the Black British Workshops Ceddo, BAFC, and Sankofa"

The State of the Nation in Television and Cinema Conference, London Metropolitan University

"The 1980s Black Film and Video Workshops Ceddo, BAFC, and Sankofa highlighting the Importance of Television"

Critical Studies in Television Conference, Edge Hill University

"The Return of Forgotten History and the Power of Collective Memory: Black Britain and the New Cross Fire of 1981"

7th Memory, Forgetting and Creating International Conference, InMind Support (Poland)

Chaired a panel

2023

2

"Archival Intervention to Remediate the Biased Representation of Black Britishness: The Case of Passion of Remembrance (1986) by Sankofa"

Reframing the Archive, International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture

"Building a Home away from Home: Belonging and Rootlessness in Home Away from Home (1992) by Sankofa"

7th Memory Studies Association Conference, University of Newcastle

MSA Travel Grant Award

2022

3

"Brushing History 'Against the Grain': the Hidden Visual (Hi)stories of Black Britain through Silences and Absences"

Disrupting Dominance in the Archive Conference, University of the Arts London

"Afro-British Audiovisual Culture from the Thatcher Era to the End of the Millennium: Memory, Identity, and Experimentation"

ESSE Conference, University of Mainz

"The Other London: Black Britain's Silently Salient March from New Cross to Central London as Represented in Blood Ah Go Run"

TV Londons, University of Westminster

2021

7

"Afro-British Audio-Visual Culture as Represented by BAFC, Ceddo, and Sankofa: a London-based Archive Quest"

CREAM PhD Symposium, University of Westminster

"Entering a 'Warzone' of Memories through Black Audio Film Collective's Testament"

Queer Temporalities International Conference, University of Murcia

Co-organised this conference

"The People United Will Never Be Defeated: The New Cross Fire Massacre of 1981"

44th AEDEAN International Conference, University of Santander

"Bringing Frantz Fanon Back to Life: Black Skin, White Masks and the Persistence of Frantz Fanon's Memory in Visual Culture"

Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Queen Margaret University

Praised in conference newsletter

"Being and Living with 'the Other': a British-Nigerian Experience through Cinema"

7th ASYRAS Conference

"Signs of Empire: a (De)Construction of Colonial Fantasy through Cinema"

SEING III Conference, University of Zaragoza

"Trapped between Two Worlds: Cinematic Representation of the 'Other' in Maureen Blackwood's Home Away From Home"

International Conference on Film Studies, London Centre of Interdisciplinary Research

2020

2

"Nostalgia for a Lost Past and a Future that never Took Place as Represented in Handsworth Songs by the Black Audio Film Collective"

5th International Interdisciplinary Conference, InMind Support

"Mixed-Identity in the Liverpudlian Black Community as Represented in John Akomfrah's A Touch of the Tar Brush"

Narratives of Displacement International Conference, UIB / London Centre of Interdisciplinary Research

2019

1

"England's Debt to the Huguenots"

I SEDERI Conference for Junior Researchers, University of Murcia

Research Projects

Competitively funded research projects as a team member.

PID2022-137592NB-I00

Queer Memory on the Margins of Contemporary Anglophone Cultures (Literature, Cinema, Videogames)

Period
2023–2027
PI
Juan Antonio Suárez Sánchez
Funding
118,750 €
PGC 2018-095393

Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures

Period
2018–2022
PI
Juan Antonio Suárez Sánchez
Funding
64,130 €

Organising Committees

Conference and event organisation roles.

May 2025

VII ASYRAS Conference

University of Murcia

Mar 2022

Macbeth in European Culture

University of Murcia

Dec 2021

Queer Temporalities International Conference

University of Murcia

Editorial Roles

Positions at academic journals.

Editorial Assistant

Critical Studies in Television (SAGE)

Since 2024

Copy-editor

Oceánide Journal

Since 2025

Memberships

Learned societies and professional networks.

  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • Association of Adaptation Studies
  • AEDEAN
  • ASYRAS
  • Memory Studies Association
  • Archivo Platform (Associate Member)
  • NECS: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
  • British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
  • MeCCSA
  • Community Archives and Heritage Group
  • The British Art Network

María Piqueras-Pérez

Lecturer in English Studies at the University of the Balearic Islands. Research in Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Memory Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

Contact

hello@mariapiqueras.com

Universitat de les Illes Balears
Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5
07122 Palma (Illes Balears)
Facultat Ramon Llull — Despatx CD12

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