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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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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B-magic Final Conference (5-7 May 2022)

The Magic Lantern in Leisure, Entertainment and Popular CultureLocation: Photography Museum (FOMU) in Antwerp, BelgiumPre-conference Event at CINEMATEK Brussels on 4 May 2022This conference aims to bring together new research and scholarship on the many uses of the magic/optical lantern. The conference will also present and discuss…

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Women & Silent Screen Online, June 2-6, 2021

Women and the Silent Screen Online June 2-6, 2021 PRELUDE TO Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference: Women, Cinema, and Migration Entr’acte June 2, 2021 Premiere at 2:30pm EST (free to view all of June) Kennington Bioscope: https://www.youtube.com/kenningtonbioscope June 4-6, 2021 Online conference: FREE & open to all! Register here. I. “Bees and…

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Remapping Early British Cinema: A Symposium

Remapping Early British Cinema: A Symposium  26-27 May 2021 A series of major publications in recent years have shed fresh light on the early British film business, from the 19th century pioneers up to the boom in cinema building before the First World War. Do these require…

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CFP: Shadowed Screens. Dante’s Inferno in Cinema and Audio-Visual Media.

The University of Turin is inviting scholars and students to submit abstracts for “Shadowed Screens. Dante’s Inferno in Cinema and Audio-Visual Media.” The conference will take place in Turin from 16 to 18 December 2021. Of particular interest are proposals which emphasize interdisciplinary perspectives, unpublished documental sources,…

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CFP : Virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences

Universitat De Girona & Museu del Cinema are currently circulating a call for papers for the 13th International Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema: Virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences. This conference, organized by the Museu del Cinema, The Department…

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British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2017

British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2017 6th & 7th April 2017 King’s College, London The British Silent Film Festival affords scholars, archivists and enthusiasts the opportunity to re-asses film-making in Britain between 1895 and 1930. By bringing forgotten films out of the archive, and encouraging scholarly activity…

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2nd International Conference of the Colour Group (GB)

Colour in Film Monday to Wednesday 27 – 29 March 2017 BFI Southbank and Friends House, London This conference will cover the entire breadth of colour in moving images, from early (pre)cinema’s chromolithographic printing through the applied colours of tinting, toning and their Desmetcolor rendition, from chromogenic Agfacolor…

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