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Call for Papers: IAMHIST Conference 2023

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FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

20-22 June 2023

This is an in-person conference that will take place on site in Montreal. Limited live-online options will be offered to those unable to travel. Please specify in your abstract if you would need this option.

Deadline for submissions (20-minute presentations, panels of three 20-minute papers, or practice-based research/workshops): 16 January 2023

IAMHIST is the International Association for Media and History, an organization of scholars, filmmakers, broadcasters and archivists dedicated to historical enquiry into film, radio, TV and other media.

Archives have always played a considerable role for research and creation, especially in film and media studies. By virtue of their form and content, archives put at the forefront questions of possible and alternative historiographies and the shaping of memories and invites reflection on forgetting. Ranging from censorship to emancipation, archives are often source and reason for debate, powerplays and struggles as they can be object of censorship, but also sources and ways of emancipation. They are not only sites of memory, but also sites and signs of social and cultural change. There has been an increased scholarly interest in archives since the arrival of digital tools and the Web, and the concept of the archive itself has been questioned, discussed, and redefined.

This conference aims to revisit these archival transformations by bringing into focus archives’ blind spots, notably in relation to their accessibility and ecological dimensions. How do existing archival institutions, associations or private collectors and archivists address technology and media transformations? What are the current and future challenges of archive research? Use? Configurations? What type of ‘new’ archives can be imagined and created in relation to technology and media transformations?

The IAMHIST Conference will be particularly interested in proposals dealing with media archives (film, radio, video, television, Web, photographs, etc.) but also warmly welcomes archives that use media and technology institutionally (museums, associations, vernacular archives etc.).

We invite scholars, archivists, practitioners, and artists to send a proposal that concerns one or more of the following topics:

  • Archives and accessibility
  • Archives, restitution, and memory
  • Archives and social justice
  • Archives and ecology / sustainable archives
  • Archives and decolonization
  • Case studies of archival use in media history research
  • Archives and (media-) storage
  • Reuse of archives in research, artistic projects, and practice
  • Archival material in film and arts
  • Reflections on how to archive research/scholarly activities
  • Vernacular, private, and institutional archives
  • History of media archives
  • Financing and funding of archives
  • Internationalization of archives
  • Local and regional archives
  • Archives, memory, and nostalgia
  • Archives and emotion

The deadline for submissions is 16 January 2023. You can submit proposals here: iamhistconference2023@gmail.com

Individual paper proposals should consist of a title, an abstract of 200 to 300 words and a short biography. We especially welcome proposals from early career researchers and practitioners. Panel proposals (of three papers) are welcome; they need to be registered by one individual presenter of the panel who must include the title of the panel and all paper abstracts and short bios. We also appreciate proposals for archival, artistic or multimedia/practice-based projects or workshops. You are welcome to discuss their suitability with the conference organizers in advance of the deadline.

Notifications of decisions will be sent alongside additional information on travel and accommodation by early February 2023; registration will be open by that day. Registration fees will be kept as low as possible and depend on several funding opportunities that the organizers are currently seeking. Conference attendees are expected to be members of IAMHIST – there will be an opportunity to join at the time of registration. Information about IAMHIST membership can be found here: http://iamhist.net/membership/.

You can download the Call for Papers in English and French here:

PDF: CFP_IAMHIST_MONTREAL_2023 / Word document: CFP_IAMHIST_MONTREAL_2023

*If you identify as a person with a disability and need support (for printed documents in another format, for American Sign Language or Langue des signes québecoise, access to remote locations, etc.), please express/communicate your needs to the organizers prior to the beginning of the congress via this address: iamhistconference2023@gmail.com

Scientific Committee / Comité scientifique

Charles Acland (Concordia University)

Camila Arêas (Université de la Réunion)

Gabriele Balbi (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Gracen Brilmyer (McGill University)

Jennifer Carter (Université du Québec à Montréal)

François Dansereau (McGill University)

Talitha Ferraz (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Jean-François Gauvin (Université Laval)

André Habib (Université de Montréal)

Aleksandra Kaminska (Université de Montréal)

Amy Malek (Oklahoma State University)

Eugenia Mitchelstein (Universidad de San Andrés)

Shin Mizukoshi (Kansai University, 関西大学)

Caroline Muller (Université de Rennes)

Zamansele Nsele (The University of Johannesburg/University of California, Berkeley)

Viva Paci (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Valentina Pricopie (Academia Română)

Elena Razlogova (Concordia University)

Maria Rikitianskaia (Regent’s University London)

François Robinet (Université Paris-Saclay)

Annie Rudd (University of Calgary)

Luis Vargas Santiago (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Valérie Schafer (Université du Luxembourg)

Annaëlle Winand (Université Laval)

Anna Żeglińska (Uniwersytet Gdański)

 

Organizing Committee / Comité d’organisation

Pierre Barrette (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Llewella Chapman (University of East Anglia)

Sarah Heussaf (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Katharina Niemeyer (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Ola Siebert (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Dominique Trudel (Audencia Business School)

Celina Van Dembroucke (Université du Québec à Montréal)

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Call for Papers: IAMHIST Blog

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Call for Papers IAMHIST Blog

The IAMHIST Blog is place for analysing media history in a discursive context, and offers scholars, archivists and practitioners working within these areas a space to disseminate their findings, knowledge and research. We welcome pieces for the IAMHIST Blog on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to, individual and/or collaborative research, conference reports, film festivals, research projects, etc., in the broad area of media history.

The IAMHIST Blog also publishes a series entitled ‘A Day at the Archives…’, which aims to discuss different researchers’ experiences of using a variety of archives and/or museums from around the world, particularly those which may help to contribute to and inform our knowledge of media history.

A new series, which was introduced this year, titled ‘Detectives in the Archive… Researching Primary Sources’, aims to offer advice and personal experiences on analysing/using different types of primary sources relating to media history, for example budgets, call sheets, correspondence, cost reports, daily progress reports, fan magazines, interviews/oral testimony, scripts, etc.

If you would be interested in writing a piece for the IAMHIST Blog, or a piece for either the ‘A Day at the Archives…’ or ‘Detectives in the Archive… Researching Primary Sources’ series, then please email the IAMHIST Blog Editor, Llewella Chapman, with your suggestions and ideas:

llewella.burton@uea.ac.uk

Please refer to the ‘IAMHIST Blog Guidelines’, which can be found here.

For the ‘A Day at the Archives…’ series, the title of your piece should be: ‘A Day at the Archives… [Name of archive/museum, location]’. An example of this would be:

‘A Day at the Archives… The National Archives, Kew (UK)’

For the ‘Detectives in the Archive… Researching Primary Sources’ series, the title of your piece should be: ‘Detectives in the Archive… Researching [name of source]. An example of this would be:

‘Detectives in the Archive… Researching Daily Progress Reports’

N.B. Offering to write a piece for the ‘A Day at the Archives…’ series works on a first-come-first-serve basis. If the archive which you wish to write about has already been suggested by another person, then you will be offered the opportunity to write about another archive of your choice.

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Fully-Funded Collaborative Doctorate: The Role of Independent Cinema in the Age of On-Demand Culture

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The Role of Independent Cinema in the Age of On-Demand Culture

Fully-Funded Collaborative Doctorate with Watershed Cultural Cinema Bristol, UWE Bristol and Exeter Universities

An exciting opportunity has arisen to undertake a collaborative doctorate analysing the role of independent cinema in the age of on-demand culture, beginning in October 2019. The project explores independent cinema’s approach to curation, audience development and community-building; its relationships with funders and policymakers at local, regional, national and international levels; and the strategies it has developed to survive in the face of far-reaching changes to the ways in which films are distributed, exhibited and consumed notably the emergence of Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) services. The project will focus on the role of Watershed Cultural Cinema in Bristol https://www.watershed.co.uk/ but also engage with the UK independent film exhibition centre as a whole.

You will be jointly supervised by Mark Cosgrove, the Film Curator at Watershed, Professor Andrew Spicer at UWE Bristol and Dr James Lyons at Exeter University. The studentship is fully funded for three years within the South, West and Wales (SWW2) Doctoral Training Partnership and you will enjoy all the advantages of working within that collaborative framework that includes a number of training events.

For further details please go to the SWW2 website: https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/prospective-students/apply/

If you have any questions or queries about this doctorate, please contact Andrew Spicer in the first instance: andrew2.spicer@uwe.ac.uk.

In order to be considered for this opportunity, you need to send an Expression of Interest to Andrew Spicer by email. This should contain the following:

  • Name
  • Contact Details
  • Educational Background and Qualifications
  • A statement (up to 1,000 words) that explains:
  1. Why you wish to apply for this collaborative doctorate
  2. How you would approach investigating this subject
  3. What you see as the advantages in working with Watershed, UWE Bristol and Exeter
  4. In what way your interests, education and existing knowledge makes you well suited to undertake this project

We need to receive your Expression of Interest by 17.00 on Thursday 3 January 2019 at the latest. Please note that you must be available to be interviewed in Bristol on Friday 11 January 2019.

 

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