[Commlist] CfP Rethinking Broadcast Archives: Dig, Deconstruct, Display

Call for Papers

Rethinking Broadcast Archives: Dig, Deconstruct, Display

Date: 8 December 2023
Venue: BFI Southbank, London

The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of 
Television Archives FIAT/IFTA is organising a one-day international 
seminar at the British Film Institute in London on 8 December 2023. 
Please join us in a dialogue about broadcast archives, present-day 
archival transformations and how these inform new understandings of the 
archive and new ways of engaging with the past.

Contributions that work with a variety of methods and theories that 
build upon the study of broadcast archives are welcome. Feminist, 
decolonial, post-colonial as well as environmentalist approaches to 
broadcast archives are especially encouraged. We also encourage 
contributions that focus on discussing research access to broadcast 
archives in different countries. Contributions can be in the form of 
paper presentations, workshops, round tables, research-based audiovisual 
screenings or multi-media projects.

The topics below can serve as points of departure for submissions, 
however prospective participants shouldn’t feel limited by these:

*      critiques of the historical, social and political conditions that 
produce archival sources and how these inform and help us revisit 
narratives of the past;

*      archives and processes of remembering;

*      silences and power structures within the (digital) archives;

*      polyvocality in broadcast archives;

*      (digital) archives and social inequalities;

*      broadcast archives as repositories of thoughts and feelings;

*      broadcast archives and climate justice;

*      politics of archival access;

*      collaborative practices and alternative forms of knowledge in 
media historiography;

*      broadcast archives as living laboratories of data;

*      archive-based media research as a lived, embodied experience.

Proposals can be submitted by 1 September 2023 to: 
(fiat.ifta.msc /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(fiat.ifta.msc /at/ gmail.com)>. They should 
include a title, an abstract of 200-300 words and a short biography of 
the presenter(s). The seminar will take place on location. Limited 
options for presenting online may be available. If you want to make use 
of that option, please specify that in your proposal.

Attendance of the seminar is free of charge, but prior registration is 
required.

Read more about the call for papers at: 
https://fiatifta.org/media-studies-seminar-2023-call-for-papers/
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