ACTIVATE, an EU Horizon Europe project approaching social dissent as cultural heritage, announces CfP for its first hybrid workshop Comparative Archival Ecologies: Mapping Alternative Audiovisual Media, at La Contemporaine, in Nanterre, France. Submit your abstract exploring archival strategies related to media activism until May 5, 2025!
Comparative Archival Ecologies: Mapping Alternative Audiovisual Media Collections, the first hybrid ACTIVATE workshop, focuses on the questions of audiovisual archives’ role in the politics of preservation and presentation of countercultural, alternative media. It aims to bring together media and audiovisual heritage archivists and scholars in the fields of sociology, film and visual studies, cultural history, archival studies, and digital humanities to explore—in historical and comparative perspectives—how audiovisual archives (in a broad definition) preserve audiovisual collections of alternative media and political dissent.
The first WP4 workshop will focus on the evolving archival practices for various types of alternative, non-mainstream, countercultural audiovisual media. It aims at bringing together various constituencies involved in production and preservation of alternative audiovisual media.