[ecrea] Teaching Film and Broadcast History in the Digital Age: Call for Workshop Presenters

Call for Workshop Presentation Proposals: Teaching Film and Broadcast 
History in the Digital Age
SCMS 2015 (Montreal, March 25-29)
Workshop Chair: Beth Corzo-Duchardt
Deadline for proposals: August 10, 2015

In recent years, digital film and broadcast archives have proliferated. 
Films from The Colonial Film Collection, EYE, The LOC’s Paper Print 
Collection, The Prelinger Archives, and many other repositories are now 
available at the click of a mouse. Sites like The Media History Digital 
Library provide unprecedented access to trade journals and fan 
magazines. Meanwhile, scholars and programmers working in the digital 
humanities are generating multimodal tools for engaging film and 
broadcast history such as Cinemetrics and Project Arclight. These 
resources offer exciting new possibilities for teaching media history, 
but they can also be overwhelming. In proposing this workshop, we seek 
to bring together teachers of film and broadcast history to share 
resources, discuss challenges, and brainstorm new approaches to 
implementing digital resources in our classrooms. We’ll begin with short 
presentations from workshop panelists detailing concrete examples of 
successful use of digital repositories and tools in the film and/or 
broadcast history classroom. Participants will then be encouraged to ask 
questions and share insights based on their own teaching experiences. 
The examples presented and ideas generated at the workshop will be 
gathered and made available online shortly after the conference ends.

We seek proposals for brief presentations detailing successful film or 
broadcast history assignments, courses, and/or in-class activities using 
one or more digital archive or tool. Please send a brief bio (under 300 
words) and short description (around 500 words) of the teaching example 
you wish to share to Beth Corzo-Duchardt at 
(corzo-duchardt /at/ u.northwestern.edu) 
<mailto:(corzo-duchardt /at/ u.northwestern.edu)> by August 10th, 2014. 
Selected presenters will be notified by August 15th. Please note, all 
workshop presenters must be members of SCMS by August 20th, 2014 for our 
workshop to be considered.

Beth Corzo-Duchardt
(corzo-duchardt /at/ u.northwestern.edu) <mailto:(corzo-duchardt /at/ u.northwestern.edu)>