Welcome to Archive/Counterarchive
1515 Sainte Catherine Street West
Montreal QC
Crossing/Crosser: Language, Borders and Generations Screening & Talk
Please join Archive/Counter-Archive Concordia, in collaboration with les Archives gaies du Québec, on Friday April 19th for "Crossing/Crosser: Language, Borders and Generations", a screening and conversation between UK-based researcher Conal McStravick and photographer Sunil Gupta about transnational 2SLGBTQ+ and AIDS activism in the UK, Québec and Canada.New issue of Feminist Media Histories featuring the work of several A/CA members
The new Spring/Summer issue of Feminist Media Histories, which is edited by Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak, is now available online, and there are several A/CA members with articles published in it.
Chasing Moons: New Digitizations from the WFG Vault, available on VUCAVU until April 8th
If you didn't have a chance to catch the in-person Chasing Moons screening from the Winnipeg Film Group at the Black Lodge Theatre last week, the program is now available to watch online on VUCAVU until April 8th.
Janine Marchessault Awarded Killam Prize
Late last week, Janine Marchessault, Archive/Counter-Archive's Principal Investigator and a distinguished Professor and Tier One Research Chair at York University, was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize.
Working Papers Series: Lola Rémy | Zoom, Dec 5
Join us for another online iteration of the 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 Lola Rémy, who is a post-doctoral researcher at McGill University. Lola's talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.
VIVO Media Arts Artist in Residence Announcement: Roxanne Charles and Easton Arnouse
We are pleased to announce that, in collaboration with our partner organization, VIVO Media Arts, we are hosting Roxanne Charles and her son, Easton Arnouse, as two new A/CA Artists in Residence. Throughout the following months, Roxanne and Easton will be working with VIVO to produce a new counter-archival project. Stay tuned over the following months for more details!
Recording of Debbie Ebanks Schlums' "Performance Documentation and the Embodied Jamaican Diasporic Archive" Working Papers Presentation
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Debbie Ebanks Schlums' Working Papers Series talk, "Performance Documentation and the Embodied Jamaican Diasporic Archive," which took place on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023. See below for Debbie's abstract, bio, and the recorded video of her talk!
Archival Atelier | "Memory Labs as Participatory Archival Spaces: A Feminist Perspective" with Allison Elliot
Join us for another Archival Atelier online workshop on November 14th at 4:30 pm EST on Zoom. This time, we will be hearing from Allison Elliot from The Feminist Institute about their recent Memory Lab events and hear some tips and best practices for producing one of your own.
ONSTAGE/OFFSTAGE Online Curatorial Talk, Oct 12
Working Papers Series: Debbie Ebanks Schlums | Zoom, Nov 7
Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Debbie Ebanks Schlums, who is a PhD Candidate in the Cinema and Media Studies program at York University. Debbie's talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.
Save-the-Date and CFP for the 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference
Read through our CFP for the upcoming 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices, taking place on July 12-14, 2024 in Toronto.
Talking Archives Episode 8 - Archivist Melissa J. Nelson
Watch the eighth episode of our online interview series, Talking Archives, which features conversations with artists, archivists, and researchers who are part of the A/CA network.
Announcing the "Archival Futures: Ethics and Carework in the Archive" Reading Group
The Archive/Counter-Archive 2023 Fall Graduate Student Mixer
2001E Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, York University
88 The Pond Rd
North York ON M3J 2S5
Canada
ONSTAGE/OFFSTAGE Exhibtion, the ArQuives, September 21
34 Isabella Street
Toronto ON M4Y 1N1
Canada
A/CA Call for Papers for SCMS 2024
Are you planning on presenting research related to A/CA at the 2024 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (March 14-17th, 2024, Boston, Massachusetts)? Please let us know by August 10th! We would love to coordinate A/CA members’ paper proposals into one or more pre-constituted panels.