This is a listing of conferences, festivals, events and some major screenings of silent films, going back to 2007, with links to posts about these on The Bioscope. There are separate sub-pages for Conferences and Festivals.

2012
6-13 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy

31 August – 1 September – Forssa Silent Film Festival, Finland
10-12 August – Capitolfest, New York, USA

12-15 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival, USA

29 June – 1 July – Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival, Niles, California, USA
23-30 June – Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy
18-22 June – Domitor early cinema conference, Brighton, UK

23-27 May – Festival d’Anères, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
13-18 May – For the Love of Film film preservation blogathon

19-22 April – British Silent Film Festival, Cambridge, UK

29 March – 3 April – Toronto Silent Film Festival, Canada
29 March – 1 April – Festival du film muet, Servion, Switzerland
24-25, 31 March-1 April – Napoléon, Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA, USA
16-18 March – Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, Bo’ness, Scotland
15-18 March – Cinefest, Syracuse, New York, USA

24-25 February- Kansas Silent Film Festival, Topeka, Kansas, USA

26-29 January – Slapstick festival, Bristol, UK

2011
1-3 December – Poverty on Screen 1880-1914 conference, London

1-8 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy

27-29 September – Importing Asta Nielsen conference, Frankfurt, Germany
23-24 September – Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas, USA
22-25 September – Cinesation, Massillon, Ohio, USA
2-3 September – Forssa Silent Film Festival, Finland
1-5 September – Cinecon, Hollywood, USA

26-28 August – International Silent Film Festival, Manila, Philippines
13-14 August – Capitolfest, New York, USA
11-21 August – Bonner Sommerkino, Bonn, Germany

25 July-1 August – Méliès conference, Cerisy-La-Salle, France
16-31 July – StummfilmLiveFestival, Berlin, Germany
14-17 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival, USA
1-2 July – Second Birth of Cinema conference, Newcastle, UK

25 June-2 July – Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy
24-26 June – Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival, Niles, California, USA
8-12 June – Festival d’Anères, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

27-30 May – Cinevent, Columbus, Ohio, USA

13-15 April – Doing Women’s Film History conference, Sunderland, UK
7-11 April – British Silent Film Festival, London, UK
7-8 April – Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain conference, London, UK

31 March-1 April – The Construction of News in Early Cinema seminar, Girona, Spain
30 March-7 April – Toronto Silent Film Festival, Canada
24-27 March – Festival du film muet, Servion, Switzerland
18-20 March – Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, Bo’ness, Scotland, UK
17-20 March – Cinefest, Syracuse NY, USA
10-13 March – Killruddery Silent Film Festival, Bray, Ireland

25-27 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival, Topeka, Kansas, USA
24-26 February – First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema, Berkeley, USA
4-5 February – Films en Concert, Lambersart, France

29 January – StummFilmMusikTage, Erlangen, Germany
27-30 January – Slapstick, Bristol, UK
19 January – Saving Motion – The Conservation of the Moving Image, dialogue between Kevin Brownlow and Paolo Cherchi Usai, London, UK

2010
10-12 December – December 1910 Centenary Conference, University of Glasgow, UK
28-30 October – Charlie in the Heartland: An International Charlie Chaplin conference, Zanesville, Ohio, USA

27 October – Silent Film and Live Performance workshop, Egham, UK
2-9 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy

23-27 September – Suffragettes – extremists of visibility, Zeughauskino, Berlin
11, 16, 18, 23, 25 September – Australia’s Silent Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
2-6 September – Cinecon, Hollywood, USA

27-28 August – Forssa Silent Film Festival, Forssa, Finland
12-22 August – Bonner Sommerkino, Bonn, Germany
6-15 August – Jornada Brasiliera de Cinema Silencioso, São Paulo, Brazil

16-25 July – Berlin-Babylon StummfilmLiveFestival, Berlin, Germany
15-18 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival, USA
15-18 July – Slapsticon, Arlington, Virginia, USA
10-11 July – From Silent Screen to Digital Screen, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
8-9 July – Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire, 1895-1939, BFI Southbank, London

26 June – 3 July – Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy
25-27 June – Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival, Fremont, USA
24-26 June – Sixth International Women and Film History Conference, Bologna, Italy
13-17 June – DOMITOR conference, Toronto, Canada

28-31 May – Cinevent, Columbus, Ohio, USA
20-23 May – The Magic Lantern and Victorian Culture, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
19-23 May – Festival d’Anères, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

29 April-4 May – From the Deep, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
15-18 April – British Silent Film Festival, Leicester, UK
7-11 April – Film Biënnale, Amsterdam, Netherlands
10 April – The Ancient World in Silent Cinema, Malibu, California, USA
6-15 April – Toronto Silent Film Festival
2 April – Literature and the Mass-Produced Image conference, New York University, USA

11-14 March – Killruddery Silent Film Festival, Bray, Ireland
25-28 March – Cinefest, Syracuse, New York, USA

26-27 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival, Topeka, Kansas, USA
20 February-23 March – Akkordeon Festival, Vienna, Austria

28-31 January – StummFilmMusikTage, Erlangen, Germany
21-24 January – Slapstick festival, Bristol, UK

2009
15, 18, 24-25 October – Australia’s Silent Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
13 October – Sounds of the Silents workshop. Edinburgh, UK
3-10 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy

25-26 September – 17th Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas, USA
4-5 September – The Art of Programming Early Cinema workshop, Cinémathèque, Luxembourg
4-5 September – Opotiki Mini Silent Film Festival, New Zealand
3-7 September – Cinecon 45, Hollywood, USA

21 August-9 September – Crazy Cinématographe, Schueberfouer, Luxembourg
13-23 August – Bonner Sommerkino, Bonn, Germany
7-16 August – Jornada Brasileira de Cinema Silencioso, São Paulo, Brazil
6-13 August – Strade del cinema, Aosta, Italy

30 July-27 August – 3rd International Silent Film Festival, Philippines
21-24 July – Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects conference, Lancaster, UK
10-12 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival, USA
10-12 July – Colour and the Moving Image conference, Bristol, UK
8-11 July – Social Fears and Moral Panics, Iamhist conference, Aberystwyth
3-5 July – Visual Empires conference, Leeds/Sheffield, UK

7-9 June – The Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain conference, London, UK
4-6 June – British Silent Film Festival, London, UK

27-31 May – Festival d’Anères, France
27-29 May – Popular Italian cinema, London, UK

16-18 April – Instruction, Amusement and Spectacle conference, Exeter, UK

27-29 March – Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference, Edinburgh, UK
19-22 March – Cinefest, Syracuse, NY, USA
13-15 March – Killruddery Silent Film Festival, Bray, Ireland
5-13 March – Bird’s Eye View Festival, London

27-28 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival, Topeka, Kansas, USA
5-6 February – Oscar Micheaux conference, Columbia University, USA

28 January – The Ancient World in Silent Cinema screenings and talks, London, UK
24 January – StummFilmMusikTage, Erlangen, Germany
22-25 January – Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival, Bristol, UK
15-16 January – James Joyce and the Cinema conference, Trieste, Italy
5-9 January – The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films

2008

14-16 November – Wiveliscombe Festival of Silent Cinema
1-2 November – Modernism and Visual Culture conference, Oxford

24-25 October – Shasta County Arts Council silent film festival, Redding CA
4-11 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone
3-4 October – 14th Annual International Buster Keaton Society Convention, Muskegon, Michigan

26-28 September – Best of the British Silent Film Festival, London
26-27 September – Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas
25-28 September – Cinesation festival
5-12 September – Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)
5-6 September – Silent Film Festival, Opitiki, New Zealand
3-7 September – Silent Film Days in Tromsø, Norway

29-30 August – Forssa Silent Film Festival, Finland
28 August-1 September – Cinecon, Hollywood
26 August-8 September – 2nd International Silent Film Festival, Manila
22 August-10 September – Crazy Cinématographe, Schueberfouer, Luxembourg
14-24 August – Bonner Sommerkino festival, Bonn, Germany
10-17 August – Strade del Cinema festival, Aosta, Italy
8-16 August – Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns, Edinburgh fringe festival
8-10 August – Capitolfest, Rome, New York

25-26 July – Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
17-20 July – Slapsticon, Arlington VA
14-15 July – Re-envisioning the Child in Italian Film conference, Exeter
11-13 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival

28 June-5 July – Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
27-29 June – 11th Annual Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival
17-21 June – Domitor conference, Peripheral Early Cinemas, Perpignan and Girona
11-13 June – The Fifth International Women and the Silent Screen conference, Stockholm
5-6 June – ‘Funny People these Foreigners’ conference, Salford

7-11 May – Festival d’Anères, Hautes-Pyrénées

3-6 April – 11th British Silent Cinema Festival, Nottingham

26-28 March – City in Film conference, Liverpool
13-16 March – Cinefest, Syracuse
6-14 March – Bird’s Eye View festival, London

22-23 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival
9 February – Border Crossings: Rethinking Early Cinema conference, Berkeley

24-27 January – StummFilmMusikTage festival, Erlangen
18 January – deadline for Projection Box early cinema essay award entries
17-20 January – Slapstick 2008 silent comedy festival, Bristol
14-18 January – The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films

2007

14-16 December – The Glow in Their Eyes conference on film exhibition and cinema-going, Ghent
14-16 December – Not Only Divas conference, Bologna
7-9 December – The Smoking Cabinet, Festival of Early Cabaret and Burlesque Cinema, London

10 November-9 December – Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns tour

25-28 October – Fflics festival, Aberystwyth
26-27 October – Shasta Arts Council 2nd annual silent film festival
25-27 October – Victorians in Motion conference, Boulder, Colorado
19 October – Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee show at Canterbury Festival
11 October – Debut screening of Man with a Movie Camera remake by Perry Bard, Manchester
7 October – Robin Hood screening at Royal Centre, Nottingham
6-13 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone silent film festival)
5-6 October – International Buster Keaton Society convention, Muskegon

28-29 September – Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas
27-30 September- Cinesation festival, Massilon, Ohio
15 September – screening of Pandora’s Box with new score in Bristol
8-18 September – Cinema by Citizens competition, Toronto Urban Film Festival
7-10 September – Slapstick Blog-a-Thon
6-8 September- Crazy Cinématographe – Travelling Cinema in Europe conference, Luxembourg
6-9 September – Silent days in Tromsø festival
5-8 September – Lillian Gish Film Festival, Springfield, Ohio
4-13 September – International Silent Film Festival, Manila

31 August-1 September – Forssa International Film Festival, Finland
30 August-3 September – Cinecon, Hollywood
30 August – A Throw of Dice screening at Trafalagar Square, London
15-18 August – Chaplin Mutuals with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cadogan Hall, London
9-19 August – Bonner Sommerkino international silent film festival, Germany
6-15 August – Strade del Cinema festival of music and silent film, Aosta, Italy

25 July – Christie’s camera sale, London
21-22 July – Origins of Asian Cinema conference, New Delhi
20-21 July – North East Historic Film Summer Symposium, Maine
19-22 July – Slapsticon festival, Arlington, Virginia, USA
18-21 July – Iamhist conference, Media and Imperialism, Amsterdam
13-15 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival
6-7 July – Mind, Bodies, Machines conference, London

30 June-7 July – Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, Bologna
29 June-1 July – Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival, Fremont, California
29 June – The Ground Beneath Her Feet performance, Manchester
23-24 June – West End Live event, London
5-30 June – Moving Pictures in Westminster exhibition, London
1 June-30 October – Chapliniana exhibition, Bologna

25 May-23 September – Dawn of Colour exhibition, Bradford
24 May-1 June – Nineteen (Obscure) Frames that Changed the World exhibition, Bradford
23 May-27 August – Sentiment and Sensation exhibition, New York

26-29 April – British Silent Cinema Festival, Nottingham
21 April-6 May – William S. Hart film season, New York
20 April-23 June – Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism exhibition, New York
11-15 April – Filmmuseum Biennial, Amsterdam

30 March-1 April – Australia’s Silent Film Festival, Sydney
24 March-1 April – Kyoto Silent Film Festival
24-25 March – Cinematicity conference, Colchester
8-14 March – Bird’s Eye View film festival, London

23-24 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival
17 February-20 May – Moving Pictures exhibition on art and early film, Washington DC