Conference: La représentation du corps malade dans le cinéma des premiers temps (The image of the ill body in early cinema)

Les opérateurs de prise de vues Pathé en marge d’un tournage, c. 1912© Photographie Pierre Trimbach, collection Fondation Pathé, fonds M. Gianati. February 9 and 10, 2024: Early cinema symposium at the Pathé Foundation in Paris: Le corps malade dans le cinéma des premiers temps (The…

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10 Years of Lantern anniversary campaign

A message from the 10 years of Lantern anniversary campaign from our partners, the Media History Digital Library: The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) catalog currently includes 2,874,881 pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound. All free and…

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Domitor Student Essay Award 2023

Domitor is happy to circulate the CFP for the 2023 Domitor student essay award competition. The Domitor Student Essay Award is an annual competition designed to stimulate interest in the field of early cinema studies, to involve young scholars and archivists in the activities…

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New Domitor Executive Committee Members – Welcome!!!

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2023 Domitor EC elections. First, many thanks to our executive committee, our candidates, and all who voted in the elections. We were thrilled to find candidates who will help to diversify our committee, internationally, and professionally, as…

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Please help save the Castro Theater in San Francisco

Rob Byrne, our dear colleague from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, has alerted us about the reconfiguration plans currently threatening the Castro Theater, the very home of the SFSFF and an important San Francisco landmark. We are sharing his call for help with you…

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Call for participants : Pordenone Collegium 2022

Applications for the much anticipated Collegium of the Giornate del Cinema Muto is now open ! The Collegium provides the opportunity to 12 people under 30 who are eager to experience the festival’s screenings through a structured programme in which conversation is privileged over lecture. Each…

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Update: Domitor 2022 conference – fully online

Due to the ongoing pandemic, unfortunately, we will be unable to hold the conference on-site and to meet in Culpeper as hoped. However, following the success of Domitor 2020 virtual conference, we are excited to announce that we will hold the Domitor 2022 conference online. We received…

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International conference “Off- and On-Screen. The ‘New Woman’ in Early Russian Cinema”, September 1-3, 2022, University of Basel, call for papers

Film frame of Russian actress

Please find attached the CfP for the international conference ‘Off- and On-Screen: The “New Woman” in Early Russian Cinema’ that will be hosted by the University of Basel in September 2022. We sincerely hope we will be able to hold this conference in person. The…

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Symposium of the 2022 FIAF Congress

The Visible Archive: Archiving, preserving, digitizing, and sharing ‘non-feature’ film collections Symposium of the 2022 FIAF Congress 25–26 April 2022, Budapest – Hosted by the National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive Call for papers: Nowadays, great progress has been made worldwide in the digitization and restoration of…

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