[ecrea] Symposia at University of Leicester, 15th and 16th June 2012

The Salon and IDeoGRAMS in association with the School of Historical 
Studies at the University of Leicester present a symposium on:

_Visual Culture Research: Access All Areas? _

10am-5pm, Friday 15^th June 2012

Attenborough Building, Basement Seminar Block, Lecture Theatre LT1 & 
Seminar Room LG03, University of Leicester

_Confirmed Speakers:_

· Tim Padfield, Copyright Officer for The National Archives

· Garry Campbell, Head of Archive Services at the BBC

With the advent and proliferation of digital culture, humanities 
research has changed forever. In an age when the internet allows access 
to more and more visual material, much of which has been previously 
unavailable, academics have an increasingly rich seam of sources to tap 
into but, inevitably, questions must be asked about the ethics of using 
sources and research which fall outside the bounds of archives and 
institutions. At a time when such archives and institutions are also at 
risk of marginalisation and cuts in funding, should academics use 
material accessed outside these repositories without questioning its 
provenance? How may academics and curators negotiate this tension 
between utopian academic and cultural impulses and the ethical, 
financial and political constraints around visual culture research, 
copyright and access?

This one-day symposium will explore the use of visual material in 
academic research and some of the ethical issues that this raises in the 
digital age. To open up the dialogue beyond academia, speakers from a 
number of national repositories and archives have been invited to 
contribute their thoughts on how to improve shared knowledge and enable 
wider access to visual media through a variety of channels.

This event is free to attend, but requires registration (now open) with 
Dr Anna Claydon at (eac14 /at/ le.ac.uk) <mailto:(eac14 /at/ le.ac.uk)>.

University of Leicester’s School of Historical Studies will also be 
running a twinned event the following day:

_British Society on the Small Screen?__ Th__e Historian, Television and 
History_

10am-5pm, Saturday 16^th June 2012

1 Salisbury Road, University of Leicester

An innovative one-day workshop exploring the value of television 
material as a social and cultural record for historical research.

Further information is available at* 
**http://britishsocietyonthesmallscreen.blogspot.co.uk*.

This workshop is funded by the Economic History Society and is free to 
attend, however places are limited. Please email Gillian Murray, 
(gem10 /at/ le.ac.uk) <mailto:(gem10 /at/ le.ac.uk)>,* *for more information and to 
reserve a place.

Victoria Byard

Postgraduate Researcher,

Department of History of Art and Film,

University of Leicester