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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined the BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG seminar with Colour Collective UK yesterday, where I spoke about my research on the politics of color in Life Magazine photojournalist Eliot Elisofon’s work on 1950s Technicolor films. @baftss.bsky.social @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks to Sarah Street, Nicolo Salmaso, Jade Evans, Liz Watkins, Casci Ritchie, Vicky Jackson& Louisa Rogers for presenting & chairing the Colour, Film & the Star Image seminar today. Thanks to everyone who joined the discussion too! Baftss Colour&Film: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @baftss.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The BAFTSS 2027 conference CFP is online. The conference will be held in Newcastle UK 12-14 April 2027. The deadline for abstracts, panel proposals and research practice submissions is 6th November 2026 More details: www.baftss.org/conference-2...

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BAFTSS Conference 2027

The 2027 edition of the annual conference and awards ceremony of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Monday...

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Colour, Film & the Star Image seminar (online) 2pm-4:15pm (UK) Thurs 24th Sept 2026. Speakers: Sarah Street, Jade Evans, Liz Watkins, Nicolò Salmaso & Casci Ritchie. Programme & Abstracts: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ Register (free) forms.cloud.microsoft/r/H49pHhiHZK @baftss all welcome!

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Watch a recording of the recent Bombay Film Colour seminar presentations by Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (UCL) and Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) here: youtu.be/LWAGqny7Uls The seminar was hosted by the BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG. @baftss.bsky.social @bombayfilmcolour.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Bombay Film Colour Seminar 12noon – 1:15pm (UK, online) Tuesday 7th July 2026 Registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Bwrgk2939K Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (UCL)& Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) discuss the outcomes of their AHRC Bombay Film Color project @bombayfilmcolour.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

BAFTSS have announced the dates for the Annual Conference: April 12th–14th, 2027, which will be in Newcastle UK. Key Dates: July 2nd, 2026: Call for Papers (CFP) Released November 6th, 2026: Abstract Submission Deadline. April 12th–14th, 2027: BAFTSS Conference in Newcastle @baftss.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The recent seminar exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour organised by the by the Colour Group GB.

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Our thanks to Professor Hidenori Watanave (University of Tokyo) for presentation on colorization, the Rebooting Memories project and AI on 26 March 2026! Watch the seminar youtu.be/ayo9S1jRaVA

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Join us tomorrow for the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour Seminar (Zoom) 2-5pm April 1st 2026 How do we curate and teach the history of colour materials for which the first point of access is often a digital image? Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour. Seminar (Zoom) 2-5pm April 1st 2026 How do we curate and teach the history of colour materials for which the first point of access is often a digital image? Info & register www.colour.org.uk/interdiscipl... All welcome!

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Join the BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG seminar with Professor Hidenori Watanave (University of Tokyo) to discuss digital colorization, memory, photography and film archives. Tuesday 10 March 2026 online Event outline and registration here: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ All welcome!

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Technicolor No. V samples from the Cinematography Collection at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. Credit: NSMM. Photographs by Barbara Flueckiger and Noemi Daugaard. China girl or …

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Seminar (online) Professor Hidenori Watanave, University of Tokyo will speak about digital archives, visualisation. ‘“Rebooting Memories”: creating “flow” and inheriting memories from colorized photographs.’ 7 – 8pm (Japan)/ 10 – 11am (UK) Tues 10 March 2026. Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

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Barbara Flueckiger @flueko.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social dived deep into @scan2screen.bsky.social‘ multispectral scanning and our film color research for this interview!

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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. womenofphoto.com

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Women of Photography

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

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...

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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…

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RPS Historical Group @rpshistgroup.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Our latest illustrated #photohistory talk is now online. Based on Hilary Roberts' new book 'The Camera at War.' youtu.be/i4sMZhpuRCY?...

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BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

BAFTSS continues to run its Early Career Mentoring Scheme, which has been invaluable to helping ECRs in this increasingly precarious sector. This is a call for new mentors and mentees to take part in the scheme! For more info: www.baftss.org/early-career... #baftss #earlycareermentoringscheme

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Deadline approaching for BAFTSS PGR Poster Showcase 2026: Friday 30th January 2026. It’d be fantastic to see posters from BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG’s PGR members! For further information and designs from previous years, see the BAFTSS website: www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s... @baftss.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

BAFTSS 2026 Publication Awards deadline: 5th December 2025: www.baftss.org/publication-... BAFTSS 2026 Practice Research Awards deadline: 5th December 2025: www.baftss.org/practice-sub... BAFTSS 2026 PGR Poster Showcase deadline: 31st January 2026: www.baftss.org/pgr-poster-s...

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CALL: 2026 Publication Awards

We accept submissions for each of the following categories: Best Monograph Best First Monograph Best Edited Collection (book and journal) Best Journal Article / Chapter in Edited Volume Best...

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The BAFTSS Conference 2026 deadline: Fri 5th December 2025. Full BAFTSS 2026 CFP: www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html If you would like to organise or participate in the BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG panel, please get in touch: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

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BAFTSS 2026 CFP

CFP for the Conference 2026

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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

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Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies. Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation

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Fragile Colours: Perceiving and Experiencing Autochromes (In-Person) - Conferences and study days at V&A South Kensington · V&A

Focusing on the historic early colour photography process the Autochrome Lumière, this conference explores the research and results of the PERCEIVE project, seeking new ways to understand, exhibit, an...

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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 youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc

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Color Protocols Book Launch and Seminar HD 1080p

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Join the seminar & book launch (online): Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025 Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ Registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon.... @baftss.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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). colourandfilm.com/cfps/

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Book Launch! Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media 16:00– 17:30(UK) 12:00 – 13:30(EST) 30th Oct 2025. What is at stake when categories like color, race &ethnicity are transformed into an industry standard? Registration: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @baftss.bsky.social

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Looking forward to reading ‘Color Protocols’ which is to be published 30 September 2025 by @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social with @mitpress.bsky.social

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Sarah Street @sarahstreet.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Amazing posters for Hindi colour films at the V&A

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The Film Atlas is online! With film fragments and colour processes, film stocks and soundtracks - an open access resource supported by FIAF and the George Eastman Musuem www.filmatlas.com/explore

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

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Book Launch: Bregt Lameris, Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture 1950s-1960s

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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.

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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...

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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.

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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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.

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This week (3pm-4:15pm Friday 23 May 2025. online) we invite you to join Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, NL), Josh Yumibe (Michigan State) and Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) to discuss Feeling Colour and film. Full details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/ All welcome. @baftss.bsky.social

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Announcements/CFPs

Current events, calls and announcements for work on colour, film, tv, screen studies and cultures by and beyond the BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG. For updates follow @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social @B…

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Book launch! Bregt Lameris Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s(Open Books, 2025) doi.org/10.11647/OBP... Date: 3:00-4:15 (online) 23 May 2025 Register: forms.office.com/e/jdizRhZ4U7 Bregt will be in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (St. Andrews)& Josh Yumibe (MSU)

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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

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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...

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Global Film Color explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa. Get 30% off selected Film & TV titles: ow.ly/inAZ50VkOwA @rutgersupress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social #BAFTSS2025

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

OUT NOW: Feeling Colour by Bregt Lameris! Explore how midcentury cinema's vibrant colours reshaped sensory engagement, emotions & cultural perceptions. Blending media studies, biology & emotion theory, this book is perfect for film scholars & beyond! Discover here: buff.ly/FNZSMs4

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Very excited to be a part of this special issue on colorization edited by @liziwat.bsky.social and Dominic Williams. My first time writing about AI and trying to grapple with the politics of color, ancestry databases and race, among other things. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box

This article investigates the recent fusion of AI colourisation with genealogy and ancestry databases to offer a set of reflections on this nascent technology. Combining humanistic approaches from ...

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Proud to be part of this fantastic special issue of Visual Studies: Colourised Histories, edited by @liziwat.bsky.social and Dominic Williams, bridging film and still photography to address questions of historical method, racialization, ethics, AI, and more. Thread 🧵 to introduce each article 🗃️📜📷📸🎥

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Visual Studies

Colourised Histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now. Volume 40, Issue 1 of Visual Studies

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Special issue of Colourised Histories is online. The authors analyse the implications of digitisation & colourisation on the interpretation, circulation & reception of photographic and film archives. See Visual Studies: Vol 40, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/4...

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