Schedule

Link to speaker abstracts here.

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RtG Schedule​​

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08:45 - 09:15 Registration and tea/coffee

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09:15 - 09:30 Welcome and opening remarks

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09:30 - 11:00 Panel 1: Re/constructing the Archive: Building Lost Narratives

Chair: Lillian Wang

• 3 papers + group Q&A​

  • Archives, Testimony, and Montage: Constructing Working-Class Memory in Asturian Cinema

    • Elisa Cepedal​ (she/her)

  • Against Erasure: Pénurie, Archival Absences, and the Reconstruction of Moroccan Cinema’s Years of Lead

    • ​Rajaa Essaghyry (she/her)

  • Kanya-Kanyang Kasaysayan: Re-enactment as Anarchival Historiography in Raya Martin’s A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005)

    • ​Joe Garrard (he/him)

 

11:00 - 11:15 Tea/Coffee break

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11:15 - 12:30 Keynote Talk (+ Q&A): Re-assembling the Colonial Field: Amateur film archives, museum natural history, and the production of knowledge

Chair: Tillie Quattrone

• Dr Sophie Everest

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12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

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13:30 - 15:00 Panel 2: Re/focusing the Archive: Spotlighting Overlooked Women in Film

Chair: Tillie Quattrone

• 3 papers + group Q&A

  • ​Absence Amidst Abundance: Addressing the Gaps in Gurinder Chadha’s Archive at BFI

    • ​Jessica Boyall (she/her)

  • Stardom in the Archive: The Challenges of Tracing Women's Histories in British Cinema

    • ​Jade Evans (she/her)

  • From Ed Wood to Jeanne Dielman: The Lost Archives of Marcia Silen and Joan DeAnda

    • ​Jeff Billington (he/him)

 

15:00 - 15:15 Tea/coffee break

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15:30 - 17:00 Panel 3: Re/membering the Archive: Participation, Practice, and the Personal

Chair: Tillie Quattrone

• 3 papers + group Q&A

  • ​Made in Thamesmead: archiving the migration and settlement of the African-Caribbean communities in Thamesmead through animation

    • ​Mary Martins

  • Voices from the Lacuna: Reconstructing Benjamin Fondane’s Tararira through Participatory Archival Exhumation

    • Victoria Baltag​

  • Creative practice methodologies and Asian film archives: Absence within the Cinematic Frame

    • Lillian Wang​ (she/her)

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17:00 - 17:15 Closing Remarks

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