[ecrea] CPF - Researching Film and Television Through the Archive

*Call for Contributions *

*Researching Film and Television Through the Archive *

*Friday 09 Nov 2012 *

*Jointly hosted by the Department of Film and Television Studies and the 
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick *

*DEADLINE: Monday 08 Oct 2012*

This is a one-day multi-disciplinary symposium exploring the practices 
and implications of researching film and television through the archive. 
This may include using archives to access television and film materials 
themselves, or using written archives and ephemera to gain new insights 
into visual material. Whatever the approach, making the archive the 
basis of a project, or incorporating archival research into an existing 
project can be an insightful, rewarding, and frequently also a 
frustrating experience.

This symposium will offer a space for archival researchers from across 
disciplines to share practices, methodologies and experiences of using 
different types of archive to research film and television texts, 
contexts and histories. It will explore the possibilities and boundaries 
of conducting archival research. It is also intended that a number of 
archivists will be present to highlight contemporary challenges to 
archiving procedure that might have implications for archival research 
and allowing a space for dialogue between the archive and the academy.

Contributions can take the form of EITHER a 20 minute paper, outlining 
research ideas related to the themes of the symposium OR a 10 minute 
presentation discussing the practical, methodological or scholarly 
implications of using archival research as an aspect of film and 
television research.

Contributions are particularly welcome in the following areas:

   * Archival research methodologies
   * Why do archival research?
   * The allure of the archive
   * Practical aspects of using archives
   * Archiving policy and practice
   * The possibilities of the archive
   * The limits and limitations of archival research
   * The archive, impact and the REF

Please send an abstract (max 200 words), and a short biographical note 
to (Richard.wallace /at/ warwick.ac.uk) by MONDAY 08 OCTOBER 2012. Be sure to 
specify the type of contribution you wish to make.