[Commlist] Call for Papers: Stardom and the Archive: An International Symposium

  *CALL FOR PAPERS*


  *Stardom and the Archive:*


  an International Symposium

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      Saturday 8^th February 2020


    Followed by a public exhibition event on Sunday 9^th February 2020


    University of Exeter, Devon, UK


      *_Confirmed Keynotes:_*__


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      *Professor Maryanne Dever*


      *(Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology
      Sydney)*


      *Dr. Lucy Bolton*


      *(School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University
      of London)*

New developments in star studies have been led by a number of recent and 
innovative scholarly collections, such as /Lasting Screen Stars 
/(Palgrave Macmillan 2016); /Revisiting Star Studies/(EUP 2017); and the 
BFI's recent Film Star Series publications, all of which challenge 
traditional Hollywood-defined models of stardom and foreground 
innovative new methods in star studies research.

Within this this newly energised focus on ways of ‘doing’ star studies, 
fresh attention needs to be given to the material as well as aesthetic 
legacies of star images: in particular, the way that heritage 
institutions, ‘unofficial’ organisations and individual collectors have 
preserved and made use of the material legacy of film stardom. 
Conventional critical discourse focuses overwhelmingly on the findings 
of archival research rather than the process with scholarship telling ‘a 
story about /what /you found, but not about how you found it.’ (Kaplan 
1990: 103) The Stardom and the Archive symposium seeks to challenge this 
convention by centralising archival process and curatorial histories in 
researching stardom. The symposium aims to create opportunities for new 
collaborations and shared innovations by bringing scholars and 
archivists together.

Building on recent scholarship by critics such as Anne Helen Petersen 
and her work on Gloria Swanson (2013) at the Harry Ransom Centre 
archives, Jennifer Barnes' research into Laurence Olivier (2017) in the 
British Library, and Maryanne Dever's work on Greta Garbo's archives and 
LGBTQ star histories (2017), the symposium seeks to explore the stories 
that archival objects tell about star meanings and legacies. In tandem, 
the symposium seeks to analyse the experiences of those whose creative 
and pragmatic labours have helped sustain such legacies. In doing so, 
the aim is to encourage participants to consider star history as a site 
of archival policy and discourse, and in turn consider the potential 
value of the archive as a way to ‘review received notions of what and 
who counts in film history’ (Callahan 2010: 3).

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_Specific topics for paper and presentation proposals might include, but 
are not limited to:_

  * archival correspondence and stardom
  * business archives for performers
  * stars and memorial
  * archiving performance
  * the star body and the archive
  * star voice and material records
  * ‘localising’ / locating stardom
  * star museums / stars in the museum
  * archiving transnational stardom
  * curatorial practices for star archives
  * dispersed collections
  * non-‘star’ actor archives for film performers
  * acts of collecting and preserving
  * amateur archival practice / private collections
  * television stars and the archive
  * digital / digitising star archives
  * gender, stardom and the archive
  * stardom and archival ephemera
  * feminist and queer approaches to stardom and the archive
  * archiving star labour
  * non-paper artefacts in star archives
  * methods for locating collections
  * impact and public engagement work with star archives
  * questions of access

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*Proposals of 300 words for 20-minute papers should be sent, together 
with a 100-word biographical statement, (tostardomandthearchive /at/ gmail.com) 
*by *31 May 2019. *Proposals for video essay presentations are also very 
welcome.

Panel and round-table proposals, particularly those that that seek to 
employ less conventional modes of presentation, are also encouraged.

**

*x5 Postgraduate Bursaries at a value of £180 each are available for the 
event to support travel and accommodation*. If you would like to be 
considered for a bursary, please submit a brief statement (no more than 
500 words) about your research and its relevance to the symposium along 
with your proposal.

/The symposium will be followed by a free public exhibition event on 
*Sunday 9^th February 2020, *held at Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab, 
which all delegates are welcome to attend, including a networking 
brunch. This event will showcase outputs from the AHRC funded *Reframing 
Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Archives and Access 
<https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/film/research/cifr/projects/vivienleigh/> 
*project, including the launch of a new podcast series and StoryMap, and 
will feature archival items on display, readings, and talks from South 
West based archivists and curators./

Further event information can be found on the Stardom and the Archive 
blog: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stardomandthearchive/.  If you have any 
queries about accessibility, or any other queries about the event 
including transport and accommodation advice, please contact the 
organiser directly:

Dr. Lisa Stead, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Exeter, 
(l.r.stead2 /at/ exeter.ac.uk) <mailto:(l.r.stead2 /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>

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