IAMHIST Master-class: Film, Radio and Television as historical evidence: uses, problems and current issues
Date: 9:30 am Friday January 18th 2008,
Location: British Universities Film and Video Council, 77 Wells St., London -- not far from Oxford Circus tube.
Are you a graduate student, post-doc, or young professional currently working on a project in which you engage issues concerning historical film, radio or television footage or media history? Are you interested in presenting your project to a small group of experts and peers? Then this master-class of the International Association for Media and History may be just what you are looking for. Participants are expected to give a short introduction to their project and to prepare some central questions for discussion. Senior members of IAMHIST will engage with your paper and discuss sources and strategies for developing the project.The day is designed to be a networking event for emerging scholars and an opportunity to engage with leaders in the field in a less formal setting than an academic conference. There is no charge for attendance and lunch is included.
To apply for this event, send a 1-paragraph proposal of your project and one paragraph on bio to IAMIST president Nick Cull cull@usc.edu
Program of the day
09:30-10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00-10:30 Welcome and introduction of the experts 10:30-12:30 Presentations + discussion Part 1 12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Presentations + discussion Part 2 15:30-16:00 Tea
16:00-17:00 Concluding remarks
17:00-18:00 Drinks
IAMHIST XXII 'MEDIA AND IMPERIALISM'
Amsterdam, July 18-21, 2007
The deadline for submissions has now expired. For the latest news about the conference program, registration and invited key note speakers please visit the conference website:
www.media-and-imperialism.com
The following keynote speakers have confirmed their attendance:
RAY EDMONDSON (South East Asia Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association & UNESCO Memory of the World Program)
After graduating in Arts and Librarianship at the University of New South Wales, Ray Edmondson joined the Film Section of the National Library of Australia in 1968. In 1973 he established and led its new Film Archive Unit. In 1978 he became overall head of the Library's Film Section. Described as the 'moving spirit' behind the creation of the National Film and Sound Archive in 1984, he served as its Deputy Director until 2001, when he was endowed as its first honorary Curator Emeritus. During this public service career he devised and led corporately funded film restorations and pioneering programs like The Last Film Search and Operation Newsreel. His service as chair or board member of various professional or community organisations has been wide ranging and have included The Federation Line Inc., Music Roll Australia, Archive Forum and the Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive. Internationally, he served as inaugural President of SEAPAVAA (South East Asia Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association) from 1996 to 2002, and remains ex-officio Council member. He presently leads AMIA's Advocacy Task Force and co-chairs its International Outreach Task Force.
Since 1996 he has been involved in UNESCO's Memory of the World Program, authoring its current General Guidelines, and presently serves on its national, regional and international committees. Ray writes, advises, speaks and constantly travels internationally and his regular teaching commitments include the professional audiovisual archiving courses offered by Charles Sturt University (Australia), University of East Anglia (UK) and the George Eastman House School of Film Preservation (USA). His latest monograph, Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles was published by UNESCO in 2004. Born in 1943, Ray lives in Kambah, a suburb of Canberra, Australia, with Sue and their sons David and Peter. His interests include animation and comic strips, and mechanical music, and he is currently a doctoral student at Charles Sturt University.
DANIEL HEADRICK (Roosevelt University, Chicago) Daniel Headrick was born in 1941 in New York State, USA. He grew up in France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. He received in baccalaureat in Metz (France), a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University.
He has taught at Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) from 1968 to 1975, at Roosevelt University in Chicago from 1975 to the present, and has been a visiting professor at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu in 2000. He has written three books on technology and international relations: The Tools of Empire (1981), The Tentacles of Progress (1988), and The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945 (1991). He has also written a book on the Spanish army, Ejército y Política en España, 1868-1898 (1988), and co-authored a college textbook in world history, The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History. His most recent work, When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. He is currently finishing a book on imperialism, technologies, and environments from 1400 to the present.
He has also written numerous articles and book reviews and has lectured at conferences and universities in Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Japan, as well as in the United States.
PREM CHOWDHRY (New Delhi) Prem Chowdhry studied at Delhi University, Delhi and holds a Ph. D from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She taught in Miranda House, University college for women, Delhi University,1966-1988 and she is a senior fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences, 1983-85; She served as a University Grants Commission fellow at Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1988-1994 and as a professorial fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, 1994-2006. Currently, she works as an independent researcher on popular culture and cultural practices in both in colonial and contemporary India. Her widely acclaimed book on Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity was published by the Manchester University Press in 2000; she has published several articles in edited works and reputed national and international journals. Her recently published book is: Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste and Patriarchy in Northern India (Oxford University Press, 2007). Her other books include The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, 1880-1990, Oxford University Press, 1994; and Punjab Politics, Vikas Publications, 1984.
HENRIETTA LIDCHI (Keeper of the Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland) Henrietta Lidchi previously worked at the British Museum in the Department of Ethnography, primarily on the North American collections, specialising in the Southwest. She is currently Keeper of the Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, responsible for its staff, projects and collections. Research interests/expertise: North American collections, particularly American Southwest; Native American jewellery from the Southwest; visual anthropology; museology; cultural policy.
CALL FOR PAPERS
IAMHIST XXII ‘MEDIA AND IMPERIALISM’
Amsterdam, July 18-21, 2007
Organised by the University of Amsterdam, dept. Media Studies in close cooperation with the International Association for Media and History and Utrecht University.
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Media and Imperialism.
Press, Photography, Film, Radio and Television in the Era of Modern Imperialism
Aims
We are entering a whole new era where the circulation of images is concerned, due to the large-scale digitisation of archives and collections, which has revolutionised existing practices of preservation, retrieval and distribution. We signal therefore an urgent need to rethink the relationship between media and modern imperialism, particularly in light of the complex process of globalisation. These developments invoke critical discussions between various disciplines, such as media studies, ethnology and history.
Focus
The conference will focus on the politics of representation and media practices, from the emergence of mass media and modern imperialism in the mid-nineteenth century, to the successive episodes of decolonisation, as well as on more current issues surrounding heritage and ownership of media collections.
The conference welcomes papers from disciplines such as history, anthropology, media studies, history of art, visual culture studies, social and political science, literary and cultural studies. The organisers welcome participation from all over the world.
Key issues
The conference sessions will be grouped together under four overarching themes:
1. Exhibiting Imperialism
Images and media artefacts (re)presenting imperialism provide the centre of attention for media archivists all over the world, who are trying to make this rich visual heritage available for contemporary media use (e.g. documentaries, fiction films, Internet...) and to preserve it for future generations. The conference organisers welcome papers exploring the aesthetical and ethical questions this development poses, by scholars as well as archivists.
2. Imagined Empires and Mediated Colonies
Media has played a crucial role in the construction of imagined communities and identities, and as an instrument for political power and cultural radiance within imperial and colonized societies. This theme would include the circulation and appropriation of diverse media technologies, and the impact this has had on the production, diffusion and reception of media contents.
3. Reversing the Lens
Representations of imperialism and colonialism have often been shaped by power relations. Although media ownership, regulation and literacy clearly reflect political, social and cultural inequalities, the use and 'readings' of these media by its audiences often escape the control mechanisms of imperial rule due to processes of interaction, appropriation and negotiation. The conference committee welcomes papers that look at alternative and oppositional patterns in media culture, particularly coming from non-dominant groups and underprivileged individuals.
4. Imperial imaginary and the contemporary gaze
Following recent strands in cultural theory, media studies, historiography and the social sciences, it seems researchers and media producers are urged to become more self-reflexive and critical of their own approaches towards media representations produced in imperial contexts. They are invited to consider the question: whose story is really being told? We would welcome papers reflecting on the methodological and ethical problems posed by historical narratives on colonialism and imperialism in the media, ranging from documentaries, fiction films and television histories, to schoolbooks and exhibitions.
Visit the conference website: www.media-and-imperialism.com
Paper proposals (200 words + short cv) are to be submitted before December 21st, 2006 to:
info@media-and-imperialism.com
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IAMHIST XXII: Media and Imperialism
University of Amsterdam
Department of Media Studies
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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