The official CFP for the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium (theme: "Crisis & Community") is LIVE! Consider submitting if this is up your alley. Among my favorite semiannual academic/archive gatherings! @orphanfilm.bsky.social **PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!** See you in Ohio!

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CFP alert!!! The next Domitor International Conference is coming up in Niterói, Brazil, from June 10–13, 2026!!! 🎞️ With the evocative theme: "(Dis)locating Early Cinema: Exchange, Extraction, Environment." Abstracts due Sept 5th, 2025.
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Next Thursday in Berlin, I’ll be discussing new research on “Film as Cure” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. If you are local and would like to attend, please do reach out. More information here: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/film-c...

New CFP!! Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social about TEACHING SILENT CINEMA TODAY guest-edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and myself!! Please share!!

Looking forward to hearing the great @loriemerson.net discuss her new book, Other Networks, for our annual Communication and Media Studies Lecture tonight in Tampa! If you are local, please do join us.

my plan for an #othernetworks lecture-performance is shaping up nicely! "Other Networks: Beyond the Internet Imaginary" will take place entirely outside the 'net and will include a Kodak 4400 slide carousel for images (with wired remote control), 15 battery-powered radios, a mini FM transmitter, 1/2

OTHER NETWORKS has been available for pre-order for a few days now (only 1000 copies are being printed get yours now etc?). here are some beautiful images of the cover and interior along with the table of contents---> loriemerson.net/books/other-... #othernetworks

The deadline for the Hollywood Conference is one week away! So exciting to see the proposals coming in. Make sure you get yours submitted on time. www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp

#15. Oliver's kind support was essential for me during my PhD. He's a generous, curious, and thoughtful person, and all of that is present in droves here.

due to popular demand, kaleidoscope magic lantern slide from the 1890s in action

Another site of mine that might of interest to the new followers is picturegoing.com. This is an ongoing collection of eyewitness testimony of viewing pictures (film, TV, magic lanterns), from the seventeenth century to the present day, and from across the globe. And there's a book version.

1942. MGM - MoMA short about film preservation.

Booklet from MoMA.