Archives of the Audio-Visual

Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick

Histories of the Digital Future:

Thursday, May 19^th 2011 11.00 – 3.45 Millburn House, 0.28

‘Archives of the Audio-Visual’

Speakers include Carolyn Steedman, Charles Barr, Amy Holdsworth and members of the Department of Film and Television Studies

This workshop within the HDF programme offers an opportunity for the department to reflect on encounters between the archive, the audio-visual and the digital. With an opening presentation by Professor Carolyn Steedman of the Warwick History Department, the day will also include presentations from Professor Charles Barr (University College, Dublin) and Dr Amy Holdsworth (University of Glasgow). Members of the department, both staff and research students, who use archives in their research, will contribute a series of case-studies to help us consider some of pleasures and perils of archival research in the 21^st century.

Draft Timetable

11.00 Introduction: Charlotte Brunsdon

‘After the Archive’ Carolyn Steedman

Followed by questions and discussion (short break/coffee)

12.15 Case studies in the electronic archive: Chair: Alastair Phillips

K.C.Forcier, ‘Unique and ponderable: DVD contexts for short film and video

Holly Mak, title tbc

Marta Drozd, ‘Tracing the New Romantics through the archive’

1.00 Lunch (in 025)

2.00 Old and new archives: Chair: Jon Burrows

Charles Barr ‘Archival Trial and Error’

Rachel Moseley ‘Lost in the Archive’

Stella Bruzzi, title tbc

Amy Holdsworth After the Archive: Exhibiting Television

Discussion

3.45 Close

Please contact T.A.McVey@warwick.ac.uk if you wish to attend.