Frank Kessler from the Research Team Utrecht and Sabine Lenk from the Research Team Antwerp published their joint article “Une ‘collection virtuelle’. Les plaques de projection pour l’enseignement de la société Ed. Liesegang en Allemagne avant 1914” in  Transbordeur: photographie histoire société (2017), pages. 96-105. The annual journal is dedicated to the history of photography…

Newsletter #8 – February 2017

The daily newspaper “El Punt Avui” reported on 1 December 2016 about the discoveries of educational lantern slides in the former archives of a high school in Girona. The researchers from the research team Girona discovered five movable slides that were used in education by the local high school. Read the online version of the…

For The Magic Lantern Gazette, the Research Journal of the Magic Lantern Society of the US and Canada, Sarah Dellmann from the research team Utrecht published an article titled “Lecturing without an Expert. Word and Image in Educational ‘Ready-Made’ Lecture Sets”. In her article, Sarah Dellmann investigates the knowledge production about the Netherlands and the…

The Spanish peer-reviewed journal Fonseca – Journal of Communication dedicates a special issue to magic lantern slides. Submissions are welcome in Spanish or English. The Call for Papers is now published on the journal’s website. Deadline for submissions is March 2018. This special issue is edited by the members of the Research Team Salamanca &…

Newsletter #7 – December 2016

Notes from Workshop #3 (PDF) “The Magic Lantern Today, Creative Re-Use of Cultural Heritage” (Antwerp, 27-29 October 2016).

The filmscreening An Evening with Sarah that took place as one of the public activities of our 3rd Workshop The Magic Lantern Today, is reported in H ART Magazinenumber 162. H ART Magazine isdedicated to contemporary Arts in Belgium and the surroundings and issued every three weeks.

The edition of 2 November 2016 of the Gazette van Antwerpen, featured an article about the Exhibition Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson Brillant at Antwerp Museum for Contemporary Arts (M HKA). Sarah Vanagt created this installation as part of the activities of the Research Team Antwerp. Read the online version of the article or the…

The webportal www.visual-history.de is an online reference resource for historical visual research. As a reference resource for historical visual research, Visual History wishes to improve networking between historians and presents current research projects in its blog. The bilingual portal (German / English) lists research projects in the field of visual history, mostly within the the…