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Archive Fever Friday: TIFF Film Reference Library

TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada

On April 28th, the Toronto Film and Media Seminar and A/CA are co-presenting a tour of the TIFF Film Reference Library that will be led by Natania Sherman, Library Collections and Services Manager.
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TFMS virtual panel - Crossing The Finish Line | April 21st, 4pm EST, Zoom

This upcoming virtual panel from the Toronto Film and Media Seminar (TFMS) might be of interest to the A/CA network. It is called "Crossing the Finish Line" and includes presentations by soon-to-be or recently graduated Ph.D. students discussing their doctoral experiences and research.
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Project Highlight: Satellite Dreaming Revisited

We have recently been in contact with the organizers of an extremely exciting project called Satellite Dreaming Revisited and wanted to take some time to briefly highlight it for members of our network, as we feel its goals, in many ways, closely align with ours.

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The Annotated Archive of Archival Resources

Learn more about the A/CA's ongoing shared Zotero bibliography project, The Annotated Archive of Archival Resources, and how you can submit your own publications and/or new annotations to this ongoing research resource.

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Publication | The A/CA Nuit Blanche 2022 Online Catalogue

Over the last few months, we have been working to collect an assortment of documentation from all the projects that A/CA was involved in for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2022. We are delighted to now share all of this with you via this new online catalogue page.

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New Member Spotlight: Almudena Escobar López

New A/CA member Almudena Escobar López—a Spanish-born curator, writer, and newly appointed Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management at the School of Image Arts of the Toronto Metropolitan University—has several current and upcoming archivally-resonant projects that we thought would be of interest to our community.

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Digital graphic in bright yellow with black text "Book Launch. Peter A. Hall and Patricio Dávila in conversation with Tess Takahashi and Marc Ngui. Tuesday, March 28th, 2023. 6-8PM. Burdock Brewery. 1184 Bloor St. West, Toronto."

Book Launch | Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data | Mar 28th

Burdock Brewery
1184 Bloor St W
Toronto ON M6H 1N2
Canada

Congratulations to A/CA member Patricio Dávila for the release of his recently co-authored book Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data. Join him and his co-author Peter A. Hall at Burdock Brewery for their book launch on March 28th!
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Working Papers Series: Postdoc Roundtable | Zoom, March 30, 2023

Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students and graduate researchers from different Universities to hear about exciting work in the area of archival studies. Our next event is a roundtable featuring A/CA post-doctoral researchers Andrew Bailey, Anjo-marí Gouws, and Julia Polyck-O’Neill. Their presentations will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.

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