ACTIVATE Workshop: Comparative Archival Ecologies, June 2–3
ACTIVATE, an EU Horizon Europe project approaching social dissent as cultural heritage, is pleased to invite you to its first hybrid workshop. Comparative Archival Ecologies: Mapping Alternative Audio-Visual Media Collections will take place on June 2–3, at La Contemporaine in Nanterre, France.
To register for online participation, please write to archivum@ceu.edu, subject "ACTIVATE workshop online," and indicate your name and institutional affiliation. Registration deadline: June 1, 2025.
ACTIVATE WP4 Workshop
- June 2–3, online and at La Contemporaine, Paris Nanterre University
- Address: 184 Cr Nicole Dreyfus, 92000 Nanterre, France
June 2
1:30 p.m. Welcome to Activate WP4 workshop series: introducing the work package timeline
Panel 1, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
- Francois Vallotton (Lausanne University), "Alternative media and mediactivism: a historiographical and theoretical frame"
- Franck Veyron (La Contemporaine, Nanterre University), "Ripostes, archives de luttes et d'actions (1970-1974). Curatorial strategies at La Contemporainea"
- Nicole Fernández Ferrer (CASdB), "Audiovisual Center Simone de Beauvoir: Archiving and Restoring Women’s Heritage" [online]
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Panel 2, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
- Luca Barra (Università di Bologna), "Multiple Marginalities: Italian Local Television Archives and their Fragmentary Preservation of Alternative Cultures"
- Ieuan Franklin (Bournemouth University), "The London Community Video Archive" [online]
- Alistair Scott (Edinburgh Napier University), "Activism in the Archive – Documentary On Site Torness (1979)" [online]
June 3
Panel 3, 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
- Oksana Sarkisova (Blinken OSA Archivum at CEU), "Media Monitoring as Archival Challenge"
- Kristian Koller (Sozialarchiv Zurich), "Pirate Radio in the Swiss Social Archives: Preserving the heritage of countercultural activists turned medial pioneers" [online]
- Achilleas Papakonstantis, Seraina Winzeler (Cinematheque Swiss), "Feminist Filmmaking and Digital Mediation: Launching Cinémathèque Suisse’s New Online Platforms"
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Panel 4, 12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
- Ioana Macrea-Toma (Blinken OSA Archivum), "Are Cold War Counter-archives Activist Media?" [online]
- Serena Rubinelli (Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli), "Collecting and preserving “alternative sources” within the collections of Fondazione Feltrinelli" [online]
- Tatjana Aleksic (University of Michigan), "Archiving Student Protests in Serbia" [online]
1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Concluding discussion
Comparative Archival Ecologies: Mapping Alternative Audio-Visual Media Collections
- June 2–3, online and at La Contemporaine, Paris Nanterre University
- Address: 184 Cr Nicole Dreyfus, 92000 Nanterre, France
- Register at archivum@ceu.edu, with subject "ACTIVATE workshop online"
ACTIVATE is acronym of the project “The Activist, the Archivist and the Researcher: Novel Collaborative Strategies of Transnational Research, Archiving and Exhibiting Social and Political Dissent in Europe (19th–21st century)” funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Horizon Europe. Grant agreement ID: 101182859
ACTIVATE focuses on social and political dissent in Europe, from the 19th to the 21st century, as an integral part of the continent’s cultural heritage. The project works on sharing best practices and innovative research methodologies through staff exchanges and strengthens cooperation among researchers, archivists, curators, and public educators in order to preserve dispersed cultural heritage.
