top of page

Schedule

Link to speaker abstracts here.

RtG Schedule

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

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome and opening remarks

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

Chair: Lillian Wang

  • 3 papers + group Q&A​

    • Archives, Testimony, and Place: 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

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

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

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

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)

17:00 - 17:15 Closing Remarks


Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

This symposium is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership’s Cohort Development Fund

bottom of page