Events

Upcoming Events

Any future events will be listed here. Please get in touch if you have an event that you would like us to share.

20th November 2025 (5pm - UK): Book Launch - Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed (Bloomsbury, 2025) with Dr. Paul FlaigLink opens in a new window (University of St. Andrews) - Register to attend online hereLink opens in a new window

25th November 2025 (4pm - Europe): Visualising the Legal Subject in Weimar Film with Dr. Hannes CharenLink opens in a new window (Pratt Institute, Brooklyn) - More information & registration hereLink opens in a new window

10th December 2025 (9am - Europe): The Paragraph Film: Genre, Emotions, and the Struggle for Law with Dr. Steven HoweLink opens in a new window (University of Lucerne) - More information & registration hereLink opens in a new window

17th - 19th June 2026: Rethinking Weimar Cinema Conference (University of Oxford, in-person). Registration details to follow.

25th September 2024: Women Film Pioneers ProjectLink opens in a new window with Professor Maggie HennefeldLink opens in a new window (University of Minnesota), Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam) and Kate Saccone (University of Amsterdam)

14th August 2024: Book Launch - Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) with Dr. Nicholas Baer (University of California, Berkeley)

29th November 2023: Weimar 100: Die Strasse (screening and talk by Dr. Ian RobertsLink opens in a new window)

15th November 2023: Roundtable on queer and trans* Weimar with Dr. Bodie AshtonLink opens in a new window (Universität Erfurt), Dr. Jonah GardeLink opens in a new window (University of Bern) Dr. Cedar Lensing-SharpLink opens in a new window (University of California, Berkeley), and Dr. Marcel StrobelLink opens in a new window (University of California, Santa Barbara) – moderated by Dr. Molly HarrabinLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick)

17th October 2023: 'Anti-Racist Film Protests and Post-Colonial Cultural Diplomacy in Weimar Germany' - Dr. Tobias NaglLink opens in a new window (Western University)

27th September 2023: 'Kentridge, Berg, Pabst: Intermedial Perspectives Between Expressionism and New Objectivity' - Dr. Lawrence AlexanderLink opens in a new window (Leverhulme Early-Career Research Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art (University of Oxford) & 'Smiling in the Face of Danger: Reconsidering Lulu in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)' - Shoshana SchwebelLink opens in a new window (University of British Columbia)

23 August 2023: Book Launch - Anders als die AndernLink opens in a new window (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) with Dr. Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia)

15 May 2023: 'A film without actors'? Contemporary responses to the amateur actors in Menschen am Sonntag / People on Sunday - Dr. Jon HughesLink opens in a new window (Royal Holloway University of London)

26 April 2023: SpecialLink opens in a new window Effects and German Silent FilmLink opens in a new window: Dr. Katharina LoewLink opens in a new window

7 March 2023: Ellen Richter: In Conversation with Philipp Stiasny

17th November 2022: Weimar 100: Nosferatu (screening and talk by Dr. Ian Roberts)

11th October 2022: Dr. Owen Lyons - Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema

24th August 2022: Dr. Javier Samper Vendrell - Emil und die Detektive and the Weimar Origins of Children’s Cinema

20th June 2022: The Hygienic Apparatus: Dr. Paul Dobryden in conversation with the Weimar Film Network

23rd March 2022: Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic with Professor Benjamin Ziemann and Professor Nadine Rossol

18 March 2022: Nosferatu - 100 Years of Horror symposium (organised by Dr. Ervin Malakaj and Dr. Evan Torner, co-sponsored by CES Cinema Studies Network)

18 November 2021: Weimar 100: Der müde Tod (screening and talk by Dr. Ian Roberts)