IAMHIST Online: Publication Avenues – A Workshop

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher (ECR) considering pitching a book proposal to a publisher or an article to a journal based on your research into film, television and/or media history? Or perhaps you might wish to disseminate your research ideas in a blog or review a book for a journal that relates to it?

If so, this ‘IAMHIST Online’ publication workshop offers you the opportunity to join senior commissioning editors from different publishing houses: Maryse Elliott (Amsterdam University Press), Rebecca Barden (Bloomsbury) and Matthew Frost (Manchester University Press), alongside Llewella Chapman (IAMHIST Blog editor), Ciara Chambers and James Chapman (book reviews editor and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television) to discuss different avenues and ideas that you have for publishing your research.

 

Details:

Date: Friday 2 July 2021

Time: 14.00-16.00 BST

Schedule:

14.00-15.00: Welcome and presentations from Maryse Elliott, Rebecca Barden and Matthew Frost offering information on relevant subject areas and series offered by Amsterdam University Press, Bloomsbury and Manchester University Press, as well as their ‘Top 10 Tips’ for approaching and pitching book proposals to commissioning editors. Followed by a Q&A.

15.00-15.15: Llewella Chapman, Ciara Chambers and James Chapman will outline potential avenues of publication offered by IAMHIST, including the IAMHIST Blog and book reviews and articles published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

15.15-15.45: Breakout sessions – attendees will have the opportunity to discuss their research plans and ideas for publication with members of the IAMHIST Council and commissioning editors in smaller groups.

15.45-16.00: Round-up of breakout sessions and final thoughts.

Tickets:

To sign up to attend this free event, please visit:

IAMHIST Online: Publication Avenues Tickets, Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite

Spaces are limited, so please sign up as soon as possible if you are interested!

If you are not an ECR or PhD student but would like to attend, or if you have any queries about this event, please contact the event organiser Llewella Chapman at: llewella.chapman@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: IAMHIST Blog

 
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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