Call for papers for a conference about marginalized female audiences
Audience Lost: Minority Women and Spectatorship International Conference Ghent University, Belgium November 22-23, 2019 Language: English Call for papers detail
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Call for proposals for themed issue on innovative methods to teach early film and media history
Experimental Media Archaeology in the Classroom Themed issue of: Early Popular Visual Culture special issue Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2018 Call for proposals detail
Call for papers for a conference about neglected films related to diverse forms of radical style, practice, and politics
RADICALS 2019 NYU Orphan Film Symposium Austrian Film Museum, Vienna June 7-8, 2019 Language: English Call for papers detail Deadline for proposals: December 10, 2018
Call for papers for a conference about Sisters in Silent Cinema
SISTERS The 10th Women and the Silent Screen Conference hosted by the 5th Eye International Conference Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam May 25-28, 2019 Language: English Conference detail Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2019
Call for papers for a conference about the presence and depiction of women in early cinema
THE VISIBLE WOMAN: ON-SCREEN PRESENCES OF FEMININITY (1895-1920) 12th International Seminar on the History and Origins of Cinema EspaiCaixa, Girona March 28-29, 2019 Languages: English, Catalan, Spanish Call for papers detail Deadline for proposals: November 4, 2018 extended until November, 11!
Pordenone Pre-Release of the new Domitor Volume about Corporeality
We are thrilled to invite you to the pre-release of the new Domitor Volume, the 2016 Stockholm Conference Proceedings on Corporeality. The launch will take place in Pordenone, at the Film Fair, 2nd floor of the Teatro Verdi, on Tuesday, October 9, at 6pm. On behalf…
Don Crafton’s “Winsor and Gertie” in Pordenone!
l Going to Pordenone? Then save the date, Sunday, October 7 at 3:45pm, for the world premier of Don Crafton’s play, “Winsor and Gertie” at Le Giornate del cinema muto. The highlight is its inclusion of the live performance of the brand new reconstruction of…
Tribute to Madeleine Malthête-Méliès
l Memorial note by Matthew Solomon, on behalf of Domitor: l It is with great sadness that we share with you the news that Madeleine Malthête-Méliès died in her sleep on July 8, 2018 at the age of 95. Madame Malthête-Méliès was the granddaughter of Georges Méliès, and…
2 PhD positions in Utrecht, the Netherlands
Positions in Utrecht, the Netherlands: Two 4-year PhD fellowships in the research project titled “Projecting Knowledge – The Magic Lantern as a Tool for Mediated Science Communication in the Netherlands, 1880-1940” Application deadline: August 24, 2018 Detailed offer in English and Dutch
eLaterna Launch & Workshop
Launch of the new research platform eLaterna created by the Trier Center of Digital Humanities and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Trier to provide a major basis to understand the history of the magic lantern, the screen and the art of…
Gresham College Public Lecture on Early Cinema by Ian Christie
Demonstration of an 1897 Edison Projecting Kinetoscope
At the Ambler Theater’s First Annual 35mm Film Festival in Pennsylvania, in April 2018, Lou DiCrescenzo and Jesse Crooks demonstrated an 1897 Edison Projection Kinetoscope, which was one of many vintage projectors in Lou’s collection. The performance was documented by Peter Flynn and is
Call for papers for a conference about silent film historiography
New Approaches to Silent Film Historiography: Technology, Spectatorship and the Archive Silent Film Historiography Conference 2018 University of Leeds, UK September 18-19, 2018 Language: English Call for papers detail Deadline for proposals: August 10, 2018
Call for papers for a conference about amateur technique history
Writing Film History with the Amateur: Techniques and the Archives International Conference University of Lausanne & Cinémathèque suisse, national film archive November 28-30, 2018 Language: English & French Call for papers detail Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2018
The cinema of attractions showcased at the National Assembly of Quebec!
Last November 1st, Domitor co-founder and first elected President André Gaudreault was awarded the prix Léon-Gérin, the highest distinction awarded by the Quebec government to a researcher, for life-time achievement in the field of humanities or social sciences. The Deputy Premier of Québec, Mrs.…
Call for papers for a conference about a collection of cinematic and pre-cinematic apparatus
Materiality, Aesthetics and The History of Technology. The François Lemai Collection as Laboratory International Conference Université Laval, Québec 29 October – 2 November 2018 Language: English & French Call for papers detail in English / Collection to be examined The deadline has been extended to April 24 ! Deadline for…
3-year graduate position in Marburg (Germany)
Job in Marburg, Germany: Three-year PhD fellowship in research project on Asta Nielsen Application deadline: March 9, 2018 Detailed PDF of the job offer in English Detailed PDF of the job offer in German
Call for papers for a conference about early cinema
Rethinking the Attractions‒Narrative Dialectics: New Approaches to Early Cinema Early Cinema Conference Ghent University, Belgium November 9-10, 2018 Language: English call-for-papers detail Deadline for submissions: April 27, 2018
Catalogues and documents online
“Documents de cinéma” : domitorian files online Message from our member Roland Cosandey (Roland.Cosandey@unil.ch): The editorial board of Documents de cinéma is happy to announce that the complete 1906 Charles Urban Trading Company Catalogue (200p.) is online, via the following link: We Put…
Tribute to early cinema historian Jacques Richard (1929-2018)
From our member François Amy de la Bretèque (francois.amy-de-la-breteque@univ-montp3.fr): Dear friends of Domitor, Jacques Richard has died. Early cinema historians will not forget that he was, with Jacques Deslandes, author of the book l’Histoire comparée du cinéma published in 1968 by Casterman (he co-wrote the second…
