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.

York University's YFile news blog recently published an article about the recent Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference (GAVA) that A/CA co-organized with the Eye Filmmuseum and TIFF. In addition to providing a critical overview of the conference and its significance to international conversations around community archiving and media preservation, the post has some brief quotes from A/CA Principal Investigator Janine Marchessault.

This episode features recent GAVA presenter Julia Minne (Université de Montréal) in conversation with A/CA's Principal Investigator, Janine Marchessault. In the interview, Julia discusses the research she has been conducting on the feminist video art collective Vidéo Femmes within the Cinémathèque québécoise archives.