[ecrea] CFP: Forgetting the Archive

*FORGETTING THE ARCHIVE*

/Exploring Past Images in the Digital Age/*
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22 - 24 NOVEMBER 2018, İstanbul


Archives are not only places to collect, assemble and categorize 
documentary information but also sites of historical struggle over the 
writing, filming, collection, destruction, translation, and 
interpretation. The question of management of cultural heritage cannot 
be simply limited to processes of preservation and conservation, but 
also it requires an investigation of the ways in which archiving creates 
new forms of academic and artistic studies. In other words, these 
studies on archives, instead of merely focusing on data collection, 
scrutinize how the past -in the form of a film, a text, an image, is 
being recreated and reimagined in the present. Thus, forgetting the 
archive envisages a process that is integral to remembering and recreating.


The Film Department of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism is 
going to launch a website of film archive, a great majority of which 
consists of silent films from the first half of the past century-1900s. 
Regarding this crucial moment in cultural history, the Cinema and 
Television Department of İstanbul Şehir University is organizing an 
international symposium, ‘Forgetting the Archive’. The symposium aims to 
provide an academic and artistic platform for the discussion of 
philosophical and theoretical issues pertaining to the archives. To this 
end, the symposium brings together scholars, archive directors, and 
artists from the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, India, Netherlands, 
and Turkey.

The goals of the symposium are not limited to exploring and discussing 
the meaning of archives, as it further aims at developing a cultural 
dialogue and connection between different academic and artistic 
networks, as well as initiating international collaborations and 
partnerships.

İstanbul Şehir University envisages this international event as the 
first in a series of annual symposiums that will draw on the 
participation of international scholars and artists in collaboration 
with worldwide universities, archives, and cultural institutions.


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*INVITED SPEAKERS*

Elif Akçalı, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

Canan Balan, İstanbul Şehir University

Ian Christie, Birkbeck University of London

Peyami Çelikcan, İstanbul Şehir University

Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Gustav Deutsch, Artist, Film Director, Vienna

Nezih Erdoğan, İstanbul Şehir University

Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam

Nurçin İleri, Boğaziçi University, Université Grenoble Alpes University, 
LARHRA

Claudy Op Den Kamp, Bournemouth University

Nico de Klerk, Utrecht University

Peter Kramer, De Monfort University, Leicester

Aslı Odman, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul

Saadet Özen, EHESS, Paris

Esin Paça Cengiz, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

Barış Saydam, Türk Sinema Araştırmaları, Istanbul

Rashmi Sawhney, Christ University, Bangalore

Asuman Suner, Istanbul Technical University, Sabancı University

Serkan Şavk, İzmir Ekonomi University

Nikolaus Wostry, Austrian Film Archive, Vienna

Mustafa Selçuk Yavuzkanat, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Directorate 
of Cinema, Ankara

Erkin Yılmaz, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Directorate of Cinema, Ankara

*LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT*

Çiğdem Borucu

Güniz Alkaç

Nurcan Arısoy

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