Call for papers - Interwar Cinema and Queer History: Researching the LGBTQ+ Past

1-day symposium, University of Southampton, 23 June 2026

⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 20 April

Issue 23:3 is now available online, featuring visual responses to an 18th-century earthquake, transhumanism in the films of Georges Méliès, anti-capitalist critique in fin-de-siècle print culture, princely imagery in India, and Robinson Crusoe trading cards www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...

Join us online on Monday, 10 November, 16:30-18:00 (UK time), to hear about new LGBTQIA+ screen studies research. Speakers include Nicholas de Villiers, Beth Bramich and Mike Wyeld. More details and sign-up form here forms.gle/TTGvu4FCmAS8...

What new LGBTQIA+ screen studies scholarship should we be celebrating this pride month? What classic work should we revisit? Tell us about your new projects, or send us your recommendations for books, articles and video essays we should know about

I had a great time talking with @ettletodd.bsky.social about 1905 films. If you haven’t listened to his podcast yet, treat yourself to the full back catalogue!

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!!

We're excited to share a call for contributions to an upcoming special issue of EPVC on "Teaching Silent Cinema Today", guest edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and @aurspiers.bsky.social.

Share your experiences of teaching silent cinema and your ideas for how it could be taught in the future.

A starter pack of fabulous folk working in LGBTQIA+ screen studies. If you'd like to be added, let us know! go.bsky.app/Asce99Z

In light of the, um, attention that trans studies is getting, let's make this list even longer. go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH

In response to today's supreme court ruling, we want to urge any researcher in Trans Histories to consider a proposal to our new Queer & Trans Histories series - because research into Trans histories will help to shape Trans futures: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

#TransRights

You should be able to access the site again now. I'm glad it's useful!

Hello! Yes, I’m having some website trouble at the moment. Hopefully it will be sorted soon!

Illegally Female The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

Hello Bluesky! This is the new account for the BAFTSS LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies special interest group. Follow us and share your queer and trans screen studies news with us 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Did your favorite book store do that?

And love and solidarity to everyone marking Trans Day of Visibility today 🏳️‍⚧️ #tdov

Thanks @baftss.bsky.social for the award! #baftss2025

Peter Jewell and Bill Douglas in a garden with items from the moving image collection.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Peter Jewell, our Honorary Patron and Principal Donor.

The collection he built with his great friend Bill Douglas is an amazing legacy to leave the world.

Thank you Peter, we are profoundly grateful for your vision, energy and enthusiasm.

People in silent movies watching movies

Congratulations to FTV’s Tiago de Luca and Chris O’Rourke, who are both shortlisted for the ‘Best Article or Chapter’ award for BAFTSS 2025.

This is a really bloody good grounding in how we got to where we are (and a reminder that the current anti-trans moral panic in the UK is a direct result of a small group of well-connected cis women getting angry about the [Conservative!] government proposing reforming the Gender Recognition Act)

Thanks to @baftss.bsky.social for shortlisting my article ‘A Life in Pictures’ for a Publication Award! It’s free to access, if anyone wants to read about the history of a trans movie worker and his dealings with the British tabloid media in the 1940s-50s doi.org/10.1093/scre...

I'm very pleased to have helped guest edit the latest issue of Early Popular Visual Culture. It also features new research into Robert Paul, colour films in the Scottish Highlands, roll of honour films + a 1920s copyright dispute

go.bsky.app/KD7kfpH

As part of the Weimar 100 project, there will be a free screening of the German silent film The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann, 1924) in the FAB Cinema on Thursday 28th Nov at 7pm, w/ an introduction by Dr Ian Roberts of the German department. Reserve a spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weimar-100....