In preparation for a special issue about media practices for image projection, such as slides and filmstrips, in educational, industrial, informational, artistic and commercial contexts throughout the post-war period in Europe, the TMG Journal for Media History invites scholars with an interest in this diverse field of audio-visual practices to submit abstracts for articles that discuss various aspects of projected still-image technologies such as filmstrips, slides and optical lanterns, their intermedial relations and relationships to moving images and other media technologies during the post-war period. Also welcome are abstracts from archivists and practitioners for non-peer review articles focusing on collections, issues of preservation, archival policies and practices, and public and scholarly accessibility.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Still-image technologies including (but not limited to) filmstrips, slides, optical lanterns, episcopes, ‘still film’, radiovision, slide-tapes, and overhead.
• Projected still-image technologies and entanglements with other media forms.
• Longue durée of still-image technologies, relations to earlier and later technologies.
• Still-image technologies and terminology.
• Filmstrips, slides and optical lanterns in the archives: cataloguing, preservation, digitalization, metadata, collections.
• Projected still image technologies as (part of) audio-visual dispositifs.
• Historical reception and audience interaction: attraction, spectacle, mundanity, boredom.
• Still-image technologies and their organizational and institutional use for education, information, promotion, advertising, instruction.
• Still-image auteurism and artistic uses of still-image projection and.
• Still-image technologies in other media (e.g., film, television, literature).
• Representations of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, disability in projected still-images.
• Circulation, logistics and distribution.
• Single versus multiple still image projection.
• Sound, noise, sound effects and music and projected still-image technologies.
• Portability, travel, tourism.
• Still-image pornography, amateur and commercial.
• Narratological aspects of still-image technologies.

This special issue is guest edited by Lars Diurlin, Erik Florin Persson and Ole Johnny Fossås.
Deadline for proposals is October 1, 2026.