Introduction:
This section comprises conferences and workshops that have, or will, focus on women’s film and television histories, listed in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent. Each conference is listed under year date, followed by title, hosting institution, organisers/sponsors. Where available we also include links to the conference websites for programmes, abstracts and any papers or visual materials which participants have been willing to leave posted on the website. Where conferences belong to an annual or biennial series under the same title we have listed the first few, along with links to websites and materials and thereafter refer you to the general conference website.For WFTHN’s five Doing Women’s Film and Television History conferences, run by different host organisations, use the DWFTH tab on our Home Page. For WFTHN’s five Doing Women’s Film and Television History conferences and for WFTHN’s four foundational AHRC funded Workshops see respectively our dedicated DWFTH Conference page and About Us. For the template to enter new conferences and workshops/events see below.
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Console-ing Passions, Annual:
Console-ing Passions is a feminist media study group founded by feminist media scholars in 1989, focused on television, audio, video and new media. Its annual conference is now supported by the journal, Feminist Media Studies. The first conference was held at the University of Iowa in 1992. Many of these conferences focus a particular theme. Link: http://console-ingpassions.org/.
2022
23-25 June. Console-ing Passions: Reinvention
University of Central Florida, Orlando
Organisers: Mel Stanfil and Anastasia Salter.
Link to programme: http://cp2022.cah.ucf.edu/.
2018
July 11-13. Console-ing Passions
Bournemouth University
Organisers/Sponsors: Christopher Pullen, Faculty of Media and Communication
Link to programme: 2018_CPPoole_ConfProgramDraft.pdf.
2017
27-29 July. Console-ing Passions
East Carolina University
2016
16-17 June. Console-ing Passions
University of Notre Dame
Organisers/Sponsors: College of Arts and Letters
Link to programme: 2016_CPNotreDame_ConfProgram.pdf.
2015
18-20 June. Console-ing Passions: Rebooting Feminism
Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland
Organisers/Sponsors: Jorie Lagerwey, Diane Negra; Maynooth University, University College, Dublin, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology; UCD Seed Funding Scheme.
Link to programme: 2015_CPDublin_Program.pdf.
2014
10-12 April. Console-ing Passions
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Link to programme: 2014_CPMizzou_Program.pdf.
Women and the Silent Screen, Biennial:
The biennial Women and the Silent Screen Conferences are sponsored by Women and Film History International (WiFI) and are run by different host organisations around the world. The first conference was held in 1999 in Utrecht. Those not listed below include no IV in 2006 (Guadalajara), no. III in 2004 (Montreal), II in 2001 (Santa Cruz), and no. 1 (Utrecht). Like Console-ing Passions, hosts often subtitle the conference under a specific theme. Link: http://wfhi.org/.
2022
2-8 June. Women and the Silent Screen XI: Women, Cinema and World Migration Organisers/Sponsors: Columbia University, New York, and Barrymore Film Centre, Fort Lee, New Jersey. For CFP and further details click Upcoming Events under Events Tab on WFTHN Home Page.
2019
25-28 May. Women and the Silent Screen X: Sisters!
Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
Organisers/Sponsors: Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Eye), Giovanna Fossati (Eye/ University of Amsterdam (UvA), Gerdien Smitt (Eye) & Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Link: eyefilm.nl. Includes programme and abstracts. Reports: see blog by Christine Gledhill on WFTHN website.
2017
16-18 June. Women and the Silent Screen IX: Histories, Her-Stories and Methods
Organisers/Sponsors: Shanghai Theatre Academy and Contemporary Cinema
2015
17-19 September 2015. Women and the Silent Screen VIII: Women, Labor & Working-Class Cultures
University of Pittsburgh
Link: https://wssviii.wordpress.com/about/
2013
30 September–2 October. Women and the Silent Screen VII: Performance and the Emotions
University of Melbourne
Online Article: Mark Garrett Cooper: “Archive, Theatre, Ship: The Phelps Sisters Film the World”, in Monica Dall’Asta, Victoria Duckett, and Lucia Tralli (eds.), Researeching Women in Silent Cinema: New Findngs and Perspectives (Bologna: University of Bologna): 120-129. At http://wss2013.arts.unimelb.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/0_RESEARCHING-WOMEN_SILENT-CINEMA.pdf.
2010
24-26 June, Women and the Silent Screen VI: Researching Women in Silent Cinema, University of Bologna
Organisers/Sponsors: University of Bologna. Cineteca di Bologna/II Cinema Ritrovato. Report: Victoria Duckett, Cinema Journal, vol. 50, no. 3 (Spring 2011): 102-105; link: http://muse.jhu.edu/
Publication: Researching Women in Silent Cinema: New Findings and Perspectives (University of Bologna, 2013).
2008
24-26 June. Women and the Silent Screen V: Not So Silent: Women in Cinema Before Sound
University of Stockholm
Publication: Sofia Bull and Astrid Söderbergh Wedding, eds. (2010) Not So Silent: Women in Cinema Before Sound (Stockholm: Stockholm University).
Workshops/Events:
A listing of shorter, often one or half-day events with speaker(s) and/or screening(s), discussion group and/or Q&A.
2018
10 December. Why Rachael Low Matters
BFI Southbank Reuben Library.
Organisers: WFTHN, Janet MacCabe, Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI).
2016
18 June. Breaking the Sound Barrier: Women Sounding Out in British Film & Television
BFI Southbank, National Film Theatre.
Organisers: WFTHN, BFI Education and NFT.
2013
Race and Women’s Film and Television
Women’s Library, London.
Organisers: WFTHN, and MECCSA’s Women’s Media Studies and Race Networks.
2012
October. From Page to Screen: Making and Remembering Women’s History
Women’s Library, London
Organisers: WFTHN and Women’s Library, London.
22-23 June. Women and Irish Film and Television History
Trinity College, Dublin.
Organizers: Network member Ruth Barton and Trinity College Dublin.
20 January. Women and British Television History
University of Sunderland, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies (CRMCS),
Organisers: WFTHN and CRMCS.
2011
18 July. Cine Sisters: Histories of Women Working in the Film and Television Industries
Women’s Library, London.
Organisers: WFTHN, Cinema and Television Research Centre, De Montfort University, School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, and BECTU Oral History Project.
2010-2011
WFTHN’s Four Foundational Workshops
Funded by AHRC Network award, and sponsored by University of Sunderland, these workshops laid the groundwork for the eventual establishment of WFTHN. For full details of the Workshops see under About Us.
2009
7 November. Women and Silent Britain 2: Women Writing Film
National Film Theatre.
Organisers: WFTHN, BFI Education and NFT.
2006
11 November. Women and Silent Britain 1
Organisers: WFTHN, BFI Education and NFT.
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