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Liz Watkins

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colour, photography & film researcher | convenor BAFTSS Colour & Film colourandfilm.com/cfps @BAFTSSColorFilm | ❤️ cycling & archives

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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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A review that I wrote of Alice Lovejoy’s book ‘Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War’ has been published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Read the review: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CV3VZ... if you get the chance to, read the book
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Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
Published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Thanks to Charlotte Ribeyrol, Joshua Yumibe, Barabara Flueckiger, Dominic Williams& Mathilde Renauld for speaking at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching & Curating Colour & discussing digital media, the conservation, analysis, restoration & exhibition of Autochromes, colour, film & more.
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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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Fantastic joining the Women of Photography 24 hour Conference-a-thon for International Women’s Day today ! I joined the amazing Anne Noble (Massey), Joyce Campbell (Auckland) & Geoff Batchen (Oxford) to talk about photography, women photographers and Antarctica. Kris Belden Adam’s& Rose Teanby host!
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Cycling close to sunset yesterday
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... Info: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Cyanotypes exhibition, Fotomusuem, Rotterdam. 7 Feb-7June 2026 nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/en/nu-te-zie...
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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...
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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...
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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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Rainbows in Leeds today
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Sarah Street @sarahstreet.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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#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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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 · 21/12/2025
JUST ANNOUNCED Our next online talk ... 'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT). events.rps.org/en/historica... Register via the link in our bio.
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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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 13/12/2025
‘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
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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
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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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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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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/
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Announcements/CFPs
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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Light night in Leeds 2025
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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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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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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. mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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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...
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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
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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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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.
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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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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
a fascinating piece on historical photography and identity as a key to expand histories
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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/
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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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Sarah Street @sarahstreet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My latest article arising from the STUDIOTEC project on the dangers of working in film studios. It's Open Access so read for free! doi.org/10.1080/0143...
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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...
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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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RPS Historical Group @rpshistgroup.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our new @rpshistgroup.bsky.social promo card with QR code, website and social media links. Please like and share with #photohistory friends and fellow enthusiasts.
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Great to see Colourised Histories online examining the implications of digitisation & colourisation on the interpretation, circulation & reception of photographic and film archives. Visual Studies: Vol 40, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/4...
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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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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Fantastic to read Kirsten Moana Thompson’s report on Color in Film Conference , Bristol 2024!
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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
CFP The Colour Fantastic Revisited. Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics& Archives. Eye Filmmuseum 25-28. May 2025. Deadline: 15th December 2024 www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...
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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 55.000 films.
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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Call for participants: BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG panel. 26-28 March 2025, University of Warwick, UK. Conference theme: ‘Global Aesthetics.’ SIG deadline: 6 Dec 2024 (final conference deadline 16 Dec 2024) Find out more : colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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