[Commlist] CfP: Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives

*Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives*

Symposium to be held on 19-20 November 2026 at Netherlands Institute for 
Sound and Vision


*Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2026*

FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commission and Entangled Media Historiesinvite 
you to an international symposium dedicated to showcasing the value of 
paper archives in media historiography and their contributions to 
appraising and valorising audiovisual archival records.

The symposium is open to media historians, archivists, artists and media 
professionals doing archive-based work. We invite papers that shine a 
light on the use of paper archives in the writing of audiovisual media 
histories. Contributions that showcase the theoretical and 
methodological versatility of paper archives in media historical 
research are particularly welcome. We are interested in contributions 
that deal with /archived/ paper (paper preserved as historical records) 
as well as /archival/ paper (catalogues, index cards, maps, etc.).

The following topics can serve as a point of inspiration, however 
proposals do not need to be limited to these:


  * paper archives as signifiers of archiving politics;
  * (re)orientations towards politics of digitisation, preservation and
    archival access;
  * practices of appraising historical records and their archival value;
  * intermediality in archive-based media histories;
  * archival precarity;
  * the gendering of paper archives;
  * paper archives and women’s media histories;
  * paper and (gendered) archival labour;
  * embodied approaches to archives;
  * /archival/ paper (catalogues, inventories, memos, etc.) and its
    digital afterlives;
  * materiality of paper records;
  * silences in the archives as orientations towards re-sounding and
    re-visioning the archives;
  * polyvocality in the archives and imaginative processes of historical
    meaning-making;
  * paper archives as grounds for self-reflexivity in institutional
    media archives.

Access the full Call for Papers at:

https://fiatifta.org/symposium-papering-over-the-audiovisual-archives/ 
<https://fiatifta.org/symposium-papering-over-the-audiovisual-archives/>

or

https://emhis.org/2026/03/27/cfp-papering-over-the-audiovisual-archives/ 
<https://emhis.org/2026/03/27/cfp-papering-over-the-audiovisual-archives/>

Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to (msc /at/ fiatifta.org) 
<mailto:(msc /at/ fiatifta.org)> by May 31st, 2026.

Queries can be sent to 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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