Liz Watkins

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Seminar (online) Professor Hidenori Watanave (University of Tokyo) on “Rebooting Memories”: creating “flow” and inheriting memories from colorized photographs’

7-8pm (Japan) 10-11am(UK) Tues 10th March 2026.

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Awakening in Blue – Nederlands Fotomuseum This exhibition is an ode to the cyanotype, an age-old technique that creates deep blue hues. At a time when AI images can be created in an instant, the cyanotype is making a comeback. Sunlight, water...

Cyanotypes exhibition, Fotomusuem, Rotterdam. 7 Feb-7June 2026 nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/en/nu-te-zie...

It’s been amazing to interview @flueko.bsky.social Flueckiger about her work and most recently with @scan2screen.bsky.social digitising, analysing and exhibiting colour, photography, film & their materials

Read the interview on the Baftss Colour & Film blog colourandfilm.com/2026/02/18/t...

Women of Photography Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.

Registration open! Women of Photography 24 hour Conference-a-thon 2026. 8th March International Women’s Day. I’ll be joining the amazing Joyce Campbell, Anne Nobel & Geoff Batchen to discuss photography &Antarctica.

Convened by the brilliant Rose Teanby & Kris Belden Adams.

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Rainbows in Leeds today

#2 Sarah Street, Professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama, University of Bristol Five unforgettable uses of red on film, memories of interviewing former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the hidden history of colour technologies in cinema.

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War Faces on Screen How have images of the face been used to document and distort the phenomenon of war? Such is the question that drives this book, with the face forming a recurri…

Published today: War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation (Bloomsbury) edited by Katy Parry and Mani King Sharpe including essays on the close up, drone vision, and the colourisation of archival film footage

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Image: The Destruction of Mount Pleasant Parcel Sorting Office, London, 18 June 1943: A censored wartime press print by an unknown Evening Standard photographer.

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'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT).

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How to describe a work of art Alt text in museums doesn’t benefit only low-vision users – it helps all of us think more deeply about how to understand an artwork

‘Alt text is, by necessity, often cursory – an issue that is especially pronounced in museums and galleries. How to convey colour, texture and tone in 150 words or less?’ – Emma Cieslik on how the best descriptions can help everyone see art more clearly

Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG

YouTube video by Liz Watkins Color Protocols Book Launch and Seminar HD 1080p

Recording: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding (MIT 2025) book launch & seminar is online! Thanks to the amazing authors & presenters @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social @atambersweat.bsky.social Aileen Robinson & Carolyn L Kane! @mitpress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social
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The seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) starts at 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025

Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

Light night in Leeds 2025

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome!

Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).

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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.

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The Film Atlas edited by James Layton and Crystal Kui is online. Amazing to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Tinting and Toning combinations used to colour black-and-white film stocks for this. www.filmatlas.com/entry/453

The Film Atlas was launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide - with high res film fragments - from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. www.filmatlas.com/explore

YouTube video by Liz Watkins Book Launch: Bregt Lameris, Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture 1950s-1960s

A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh... Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and all who joined us @baftss.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Day 3: the Colour Fantastic Revisited conference. Film archives & approaches to restoration. From Cine Arte de San Marcos, to Adeline Law’s amazing work on Dufaycolour in the Netherlands, Bin Li on differences in the Desmet method & a collaborative project on managing analogue film fading digitally

Day2: The Colour Fantastic Revisited at the EYE Filmmuseum: Li-Chen Kuo’s amazing presentation about the silver retention process for colour film in Tokyo film labs, followed by hand painted experimental films, and Kirsten Moana Thompson on colour lighting in Disney’s nighttime entertainments.

The Colour Fantastic Revisited: EYE Filmmuseum, Joshua Yumibe and Sarah Street speaking about the work of Steve McQueen & John Akomfrah. Joined by Kirsten Mairead Gill and Allyson Nadia Field on films by Edward Owen and Crystal Z Campbell www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...

EYE International Film Conference 2025. The Colour Fantastic Revisited. The ethics of colourisation, global film , Bombay Film Color, and Mieke Bal’s lecture on colour as moving matter in installation and video art.

Eye International Conference 2025 | Eye Filmmuseum The museum for film and the art of the moving image in The Netherlands. Visit the exhibition or cinema and discover our collection with more than 60.000 films.

Registration open: Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, Archives. 25-28 May 2025. The event is organised by EYE Film Museum, Universities of Amsterdam & Utrecht with Colour in Film (Colour Group GB &HTW Berlin) www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme... @baftss.bsky.social

Online: 3-4:15pm Friday 23 May. Bregt Lameris’ (Open Universiteit, NL) will speak about her new book on Feeling Colour in conversation with Josh Yumibe (Michigan State) and Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews).

Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

All welcome.

a fascinating piece on historical photography and identity as a key to expand histories

Looking forward to the online book launch of Bregt Lameris’ ‘Feeling Colour’ in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) and Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State) @openbookpublish.bsky.social
3:00-4:15pm (London) Friday 23 May 2025
Further details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/

Congress FIAF 2025 The Cinémathèque québécoise’s mission is to acquire, document and preserve the world’s audiovisual heritage, with an emphasis on Quebec and Canadian works as well as international animation, and to ma...

FIAF 2025 Symposium ‘Film Archives Beget Films’ has begun. More information about the programme and exhibitors is online. www.cinematheque.qc.ca/en/fiaf-2025... great to have the opportunity to present online

This Studio is Dangerous! Hazards of Working in British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s This article examines the high number of fires in British film studios which occurred in the 1930s and 1940s. The reasons for studios’ vulnerability to fires, and other workplace accidents, are exa...

My latest article arising from the STUDIOTEC project on the dangers of working in film studios. It's Open Access so read for free!
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