Series Convenor: Dr. Eleni Liarou, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College
This is a series of workshops about the role of archives for public engagement and academic research. In the context of the pandemic and with more of us working from home there has been renewed pressure to facilitate digital/online access to archives, and renewed interest on the part of researchers and users to employ new digital research tools and methodologies. The series will explore the role, uses and impact of public archives from the perspective of archivists and curators, academics and research students.
A podcast series based on the recordings of the workshops will follow.
Workshop 2
Digital archives: tools, ethics and issues of materiality
6th May, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Online
Join Dr Eleni Liarou and an international panel of academics, Dr Emily Bell, Dr. Joseph John Viscomi and Dr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, will lead the second workshop and they will present their work in relation to digitisation and new research tools, the politics of data archives and the relationship between archives and historical materiality.
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Listen to the podcast of the event here
Workshop 1
The digital archive: definitions, challenges and implications
4th March, 11am-12:30pm, Online
Join Dr Eleni Liarou and workshop speakers, Hannah Ishmael (Black Cultural Archives, Collections and Research Manager), Mark Duguid (British Film Institute, Senior Curator), and Jake Berger (BBC Executive Product Manager, BBC Archive), who will discuss current challenges and opportunities for public archives such as the BCA, BFI and the BBC.
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Listen to the podcast of the event here
