Video Recordings

Publics Talks and Keynotes

Special presentation: the Cinémathèque québécoise's Savoirs communs du cinéma initiative. November 20, 2024.
Public Talk: Crystal Mowry (Senior Curator at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery). April 14, 2021, Online
Artist Talk: Shawn Johnston. March 30, 2021, Online
A/CA Symposium 2020, Keynote: Deanna Bowen, Berlin Berlin. December 10, 2020. Online
Panel: "Counter-Archives as Living Archives." With Janine Marchessault, Debbie Ebanks Schlums, Ryan Conrad, and Rebecca Gordon. Film Studies Association of Canada. May 13, 2022. Online.
Panel: "Archive/Counter-Archive ( A/CA) – Activating Marginalised Archives in Canada" with Antoine Damiens, Janine Marchessault, Nadine Valcin, and Michael Zryd. Eye International Conference, June 4, 2023. Amsterdam.
Roundtable: "Official opening and plenary roundtable: Archives, Access, and Disability" with Michael Marlatt. IAMHIST 2023 Conference, June 20, 2023. Montreal.
Roundtable: "Archive/Counter-Archive Screening and plenary roundtable: Television Archives Revisited" with Andrew Burke, Jennifer Dysart, Mary Elizabeth Luka, Janine Marchessault, Patrick McCurdy, and Jennifer VanderBurgh. IAMHIST 2023 Conference, June 21, 2023. Montreal.
Panel: Toronto Living with AIDS Book Launch with Ryan Conrad, Kaspar Jivan Saxena, Darien Taylor, and Ian Iqbal Rashid. The Tranzac as a part of the 2024 Toronto Queer Film Festival, March 16, Toronto. (*Note: you will need to make a free TQFF account to access the recording).

The Working Papers Series

Archive/Counter-Archive's Working Papers Series (WPS) is a collegial forum where graduate students are given an opportunity to present their thesis or dissertation research in-development to colleagues and faculty. The Working Papers Series is hosted by York University and takes place in Toronto (or online, during the Pandemic) . The Series is an excellent forum to receive input/feedback about research in progress.The 2024-2025 Working Papers Series is organized and curated by A/CA Student Researchers Elina Lex and Emily Barton.

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Previous (unrecorded) WPS talks.

Talking Archives

Talking Archives is our new interview series, which features conversations with artists, archivists, and researchers who are part of the A/CA network. Season 1 focused on Canadian archives. It was coordinated by Janine Marchessault. Seaon 2 is produced by A/CA researchers Monika Kin Gagnon and Elina Lex. It features conversations with filmmakers, archivists, and researchers who presented at the 2024 Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference in Toronto in July 2024.

Season 1

Season 2

Archival Atelier

Artists, archivists, and researchers engage with analog and legacy digital materials, many of which are at-risk. Explore different ways of assessing these media at Archival Atelier, A/CA’s new series of workshops devoted to varied media types and their preservation.

Summer Institute

We are pleased to share the recordings of the public talks that took place during Archive/Counter-Archive's 2021 Summer Institute, "Locating Media Archives," (May 18-June 17, 2021).

The three public talks below were part of Dr. Stacy Allison Cassin's intensive, "The Practice of Indigenous Metadata and Knowledge Organization."

The next two panels were convened by Dr. Ryan Conrad and took place during his intensive entitled "AIDS Activist Media Research within Canada."

Previous (unrecorded) Summer Institutes:

Learn more about our 2019 Summer Institute

Video interviews on A/CA