Congratulations to A/CA members Almudena Escobar López, Laura Horak, and Michael Marlatt, who are presenting their research at the upcoming 2024 ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS (AMIA) Conference being held December 4–6 in Milwaukee, WI. Details about individual presentations are posted below. 

Visit the conference schedule on the AMIA website for more information. 

Viral Interventions is a York University research-creation project led by John Greyson and Sarah Flicker that, since 2020, has commissioned artists, activists, and scholars to collaborate on making new films about living with HIV today. See related Viral Interventions conference and exhibition November 29–30 at Vtape. Co-presented with Vtape, Archive/Counter-Archive, Sensorium, The ArQuives, CATIE, AIDS Committee of Toronto, and CAAN (Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network)

Join us for another iteration of the online Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different universities to hear about exciting academic research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Cate Alexander, a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Cate’s talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.

A/CA welcomes Erika Biddle as the new Knowledge Mobilization Officer!

Join us for an exhibit on the 1973 Women & Film International Film Festival curated by A/CA researcher Cléo Sallis-Parchet. It features audio-visual materials and documents from the TIFF Film Reference Library’s Special Collection.  TIFF Film Reference Library, 4th floor.

This episode features experimental filmmaker and archivist Chantal Partamian in conversation with Monika. In the interview, Chantal discusses her work around the preservation and restoration of reels from the Eastern Mediterranean, associated with research focused on archival practices in conflict regions.

Cette journée d’études est concue comme un forum de rencontre entre des chercheur.e.s en médias, des archivistes et les programmateurs.rices de films, et des artistes basées au Québec qui partageront leurs questions théoriques et méthodologiques dans leurs recherches sur les médias féministes et queer.