[Commlist] 'Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives' symposium

The FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commissionand Entangled Media Histories are 
pleased to announce that registration is now open for the international 
symposium /Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives./
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Dates: 19-20 November 2026

Venue: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Explore the full programme: 
https://paperingoveraudiovisualarchivess.sched.com/ 
<https://paperingoveraudiovisualarchivess.sched.com/>

Register by 12 November at: 
https://fiatifta.org/papering-over-the-audiovisual-archives-register/ 
<https://fiatifta.org/papering-over-the-audiovisual-archives-register/>


About the symposium:

Over two days, the symposium will explore how paper records can deepen 
our understanding of television, radio and film histories, particularly 
when audiovisual materials are missing, inaccessible or at risk of being 
lost.

The programme opens with a panel on colonial film collections, examining 
how documents can reveal overlooked histories and challenge colonial 
narratives. This is followed by sessions on archival methods, 
institutional archival practices and regional television archives.

The second day turns to women’s screen work, the precarity of archival 
collections and the politics of personal papers. Presentations will 
consider how notebooks, correspondence, production files and other 
documents can make visible the contributions of women filmmakers and 
technicians, recover marginalised audiovisual cultures and reshape 
established historical narratives. Discussions will also address 
questions of institutional access to paper archives.

For inquiries about the symposium, please contact Alec Badenoch (Utrecht 
University) (a.w.badenoch /at/ uu.nl) <mailto:(a.w.badenoch /at/ uu.nl)> or Dana 
Mustata (University of Groningen) (D.Mustata /at/ rug.nl) 
<mailto:(D.Mustata /at/ rug.nl)>.


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