Dear Members,

SEAPAVAA is an organisation that exists to serve the needs of the audiovisual archiving community in our region. This community is our members, people who work to safeguard the audiovisual record of our region.

SEAPAVAA is structured on the Executive Council who help guide the path SEAPAVAA follows and the General Assembly, the members, who debate and ratify all the decisions that affect SEAPAVAA. SEAPAVAA is about people, the members, who believe that our mission, the development and sustainability of audiovisual archives, really matters.

2017 is an election year for SEAPAVAA’s Executive Council and all the positions will be up for nomination. I urge you to consider nominating for a position on the Executive Council where you feel you can use your experience and voice to help make a difference.

The Executive Council consists of nine Councillors, the President, Immediate Past President, Secretary-General and Treasurer and five Councillors. All the positions except Immediate Past President are open to nomination.

The office of the Councillor is honorary, and it is you as an individual, rather than as a representative of a particular institutional member or country, that works with the other Councillors to help guide SEAPAVAA. While the workload is not excessive it does require commitment and the ability to attend in person the two Executive Council meetings held each year.

Full information on the roles and responsibilities of the Executive Council is in our Constitution as are the requirements for nominations.

I have enjoyed working as President for the past 3 years and hopefully helped SEAPAVAA along the way, but now it is time for me to let new voices be heard and lead SEAPAVAA to an even greater future.

– Mick Newnham
President  (2014 – 2016)

Call for papers

XXVII conference of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND HISTORY

MEDIA AND HISTORY: CRIME, VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE

Paris (Université Panthéon-Assas),10-13 July 2017.

URL: http://iamhist.org/cfp-media-history-crime-violence-justice/
pdf: http://iamhist.org/wp-content/…/2016/09/CFP_iamhist_2017.pdf

Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of the Media (CARISM) and the French Press Institute, Pantheon-Assas University, Paris (France), the conference marks the 40th anniversary of IAMHIST as well as the 80th anniversary of the French Press Institute.

MEDIA AND HISTORY: CRIME, VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE is the main topic of the conference and a special section will also deal with international and comparative approaches to media history. Workshops for younger scholars will be organized.

Confirmed keynote speakers (there will be other plenary sessions with professionals and filmmakers):

Carrie Rentschler, William Dawson Scholar of Feminist Media Studies, McGill University 

Francesco Casetti, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies, Yale University.
Call for papers

The relations between media and the acts or representations of crime, violence and justice are evolving through history. The openness of this call for papers is voluntary chosen in order to receive diverse and critical proposals dealing with this broad topic. Most of the time, it is through media that we encounter conflicts and violence; from news formats to fictional accounts; from traditional media such as newspapers, film, radio and television to ‘newer’ interactive media. Such media coverage is very frequently linked to debates on law and order. How can an open society react to crime and violence? Often, the relationship between conflict and crime and their representation can cause various conflicts.

First, media can become tools of propaganda, war and discrimination. They are then not only ways to communicate information but they are also part of performativity and action. Second, media can become a target of violence themselves, whether or not in totalitarian states or countries where the freedom of speech is restricted. Third, in each historical context, ‘new’ media inventions can produce an atmosphere of fear and violent contest or censorship, especially when they disturb existing (political) power patterns or structures. Fourth, media and communication technologies are also an essential part of social movements and political activism by offering spaces of visibility and instruments of contestation aimed at social change that can lead to situations of conflict and confrontations within the public sphere.

These various relations of media to crime, violence and justice are not new. Numerous scholars work or have worked on this topic by focusing on media and law, politics, journalism, media activism, war, (cultural) diplomacy or likewise the narration and mediatization of war, conflicts, punishment, violence, crime and justice. The latter are not only an essential part of news and the journalistic, political agenda, but they are also essential when it comes to fictional formats such as film or television series. Depending on historical, political and cultural premises, the signification and definition of crime and violence in media and law texts ask the question of the circulation and understanding of these concepts in society. This conference aims to (re)think the historical relations between media, crime, violence and justice also in order to offer new insights into more recent forms of this very complex interplay. Scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and approaches (history – media and communication studies – law – politics, gender, queer and feminist studies – sociology – anthropology – economy etc.) are welcome to submit papers and panel proposals that deal critically with the following topics:

– Historical representation/mediatization/definitions of crime, violence and justice in news or informational formats, film, documentaries, television drama or radio plays

– Historical approaches to media events related to crime, violence and justice.

– The production and reception of news and fiction dealing with crime, violence and justice

– Media historical approaches to symbolic and physical violence

– The crime scene, the criminal and the victims in news and fiction

– Historical (media-) constructions of the judge, the lawyer or secret service agents

– ‘New’ media inventions as aggregators of fear, conflict or censorship

– The historical role of media and technologies in social and political protest, movements and activism, leading sometimes to conflicts and violence

– The historical (international) relations of legal public entities, diplomacy, the police and the military with journalists and media institutions

– Media as targets of violence and crime

– The role of media archives for the historiography and memory of crime, violence and justice

– Media, history and criminology

– The history of cybercrime

– Legal actions attacking or protecting media content and their producers or audiences/users

There is also one special area dedicated to the question of international approaches to media history. Panel and paper proposals in this field are warmly welcome. The idea is to have space for epistemological, theoretical, practical and also comparative discussions on how media history is thought and experienced in different cultural areas: what kinds of archives are accessible, in creation or needed, the place of media history in academia etc.

 

How to submit a paper or panel proposal

Please send your proposal to the iamhist2017@gmail.com until December 15th by inserting your text directly in the body of the mail or by attaching a WORD-file. PDF documents will NOT be accepted. Members of the scientific committee will peer-review the proposals anonymously.

Panel proposals: three paper presentations for each panel (a general outline of max. 400 words and a 500 words-abstract with title for each paper, a short biography)

Individual paper proposals: a title, an abstract of 500 words, a short biography

Proposals for presentations of artistic or (multi-)media projects are also welcomed.

 

Agenda

. September 15th: Launch call for abstracts for papers and panels

. December 15th, 2016: Last day to submit abstracts for papers and panels

. February 15th, 2017: notification of panel and abstract decisions

. end of February, 2017: registration period begins

 

Registration fees for conference speakers and participants

iamhist members (students): 130 Euros . 

iamhist members: 150 Euros The fees include breakfast (Tuesday – Thursday), coffee breaks, lunch, the Monday evening reception and the conference package.

non iamhist members (students): 165 Euros .

non iamhist members: 195 Euros 

The fees include a one-year iamhist membership, breakfast (Tuesday – Thursday), breaks, lunch, the Monday evening reception and the conference package.

 

Scientific committee

Claire Blandin (Université Paris 13)

Nataly Botero (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Nicholas Cull (University of Southern California)

Fabrice d’Almeida (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Valérie Devillard (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Leen Engelen (LUCA School of Arts/University of Leuven)

Agnès Granchet (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Tobias Hochscherf (U of Applied Sciences Kiel in Germany/ U of Flensburg

Isabelle Huré (Université de Franche-Comté)

Frédéric Lambert (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Guillaume LeSaunier (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

Tristan Mattelart (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Cécile Méadel (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Katharina Niemeyer (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Bibia Pavard (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Francois Robinet (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

Giuseppina Sapio (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Guillaume Sire (Université Panthéon-Assas)

Roel Vande Winkel (University of Leuven)

We are pleased to announce that the 21st Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) Conference will be held in Manila, Philippines scheduled to run from the 3^rd to the 9^th of April 2017

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Plaridel Journal

Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Cinema and the Archives in Southeast Asia

Despite the long established presence of cinema in Southeast Asia, initiatives to institutionalize film archiving in the region began only in the 1970s and most of the major activities in realizing the creation of viable archives gathered momentum only quite recently. Nevertheless, the film archiving movement in Southeast Asia has seen significant developments in the past decade, and the fraught relationship between cinema, academia, the state, and the general public continue to impact and influence institutions such as the Asian Film Archive in Singapore, the National Film Archives of the Philippines, Sinematek Indonesia, and Thai Film Archive. From the surge of film restorations to the restructuring of archiving institutions and initiatives, “the archive” has been reconceived both philosophically and pragmatically in light of the rise of digital technology that also redefined film production, distribution, and consumption across the region. We have seen germinal works restored, redistributed, and restudied, including Usmar Ismail’s After the Curfew (1954), Lino Brocka’sManila in the Claws of Light (1975), and Thavi Na Bangchang’s Santi-Vina (1954), among others. In spite of these notable developments, critical literature regarding archiving in the region remains scarce. This is complicated by the fact that the histories, politics, and practices of film archiving differ across nation-states, as their emergence did not happen in similar but rather in distinct contexts and through diverse mechanisms.

This special issue of Plaridel aims to continue the discussions began at the 7th Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC) in 2012 on the politics, practices, and poetics of the archive in the region. That is, it seeks to situate the archive in the midst of media culture and scholarship and to conceptualize it not merely as a passive end point and static resource but rather as a negotiated space of beginnings and contested power. As Rick Prelinger puts it, the objective is to see “archives not as a terra nullius, but as a laboratory for working out some of the changing conditions affecting media and society.”

How do we then define the archive and its relation to cinema? Where can we find the intersection between film production, criticism, scholarship, and archiving? How do we account for the developments and changes in the film archiving movement? What have been the impact of the reconceived archive in historiography, memory, and culture? How does the archive negotiate issues of power, identity, and ethics? What is the role of the archive in the digital age of cinema?

With these questions in mind, we invite papers on a wide range of topics pertaining to the myriad intersections of cinema and the archive in Southeast Asia, critically seen through various disciplines. Themes for exploration might include, but do not have to be limited to:

• Film historiography and the archive
• Film archiving movements
• The poetics and ethics of film restoration
• Post-colonial practices and philosophies in film archiving
• Orphan and bastard films
• Film archiving and the digital world
• Filmmaking and film archiving
• The politics of film repatriation
• Film criticism, curation, and archival appraisal
• Media archaeology and the film material
• Cinema, memory, and the archives

Academic papers, interviews, and film/book/conference reviews that explore the aforementioned themes are welcome.

Submission details are contained in the Information for Authors.

Submissions are to be e-mailed to both the Issue Editor and Managing Editor in MS Word format without any identifying information such as author(s) name and institutional affiliations. Authors should also submit a separate title page with the manuscript title, author name(s), institutional affiliation and contact information for the corresponding author.

Deadline: October 3, 2016

For submissions and further inquiries  email:

Prof. Benedict Salazar Olgado, Issue Editor (b.olgado@slis.upd.edu.ph)

Prof. Patrick F. Campos, Plaridel Journal Managing Editor (plarideljournal@gmail.com)

Submissions may also be online via http://www.plarideljournal.org/online-submission/

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http://www.plarideljournal.org/announcements/call-paper-special-issue-cinema-archives-southeast-asia/

2016 Guam

Theme: Intellectual Property, Rights, And Audiovisual Archives: Reframing Boundaries and Possibilities

In fulfilling the organisation’s responsibility to colleagues in the Pacific, SEAPAVAA held its first ever Conference and General Assembly in the beautiful island of Guam. The conference ran from 6th to the 11th of June 2016 in Hilton Guam Resort & Spa. The 20th Conference aimed to be the stepping stone in building valuable presence in the Pacific community. With the theme “Intellectual Property, Rights, and Audiovisual Archives: Reframing Boundaries and Possibilities” the conference aimed to reframe the boundaries and possibilities of audiovisual archives from legal, ethical, practical, and theoretical perspectives in national, regional, and international context. This year’s conference also coincided with SEAPAVAA’s 20th Anniversary.

The six-day conference began with a two-day intensive workshop entitled “Caring for Collections” on the 6th and 7th of June. The workshop was led by Professor Ray Jiing from Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan and Mr Kevin Tan from Sony Asia, Singapore. The Welcome Ceremony was enthusiastically attended by participants from different parts of the globe Senator Judie Won Pat warmly welcomed the delegates. The Keynote Address was then delivered by Ms Steffy Rlene Santos, an ethnographer and oral historian from the University of Guam.

The two-day symposium concentrated on areas such as us community-based and culturally sensitive metadata management, copyright access, and systems for control and use, digital rights and management: possibilities and constraints for archives, traditional knowledge, minority cultures, and the AV archives, repatriation and shared heritage: rights and ethics and post-colonial explorations of film archiving theory and praxis.

Moreover, as traditionally part of the conference there was the welcome cocktail, archival screening night, institutional visit and the farewell dinner. The farewell dinner was a by the beach catching the sunset at Santa Fe Hotel.

SEAPAVAA conference is always known for its hospitality and promoting camaraderie amongst its members, and this year’s conference clearly shown a familiar example of it.

To know more about SEAPAVAA Annual Conferences please visit: http://seapavaa.net/annual-conferences/

Blog about SEAPAVAA 20 from ‘ULU’ULU Website

Koa Luke, Assistant Archivist and Cataloger, delivered a talk at the 2016 SEAPAVAA annual conference held in Guam June 6-11, 2016. This was the first time that ‘Ulu‘ulu has been represented at this prestigious international audiovisual archiving conference.

To read more, please visit link to the blog https://hkgarchives.org/2016/06/24/our-cataloger-goes-to-guam-for-the-20th-annual-seapavaa-conference/

Dear list,

The 2016 FIAT/IFTA World Conference will take place in Warsaw, hosted by the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland (NInA), from October 12 to October 15.

The deadline for the Call for Presentations is close to the deadline.

Please submit your proposals to office@fiatifta.org .

Key fields this year are:

– Media Management – Evolution or Revolution?

– Big-data in the Archive

– Archiving and the long-term perspective

– Preservation and digitization

– Archives and their users

More details about the theme and subjects can be found:

http://fiatifta.org/index.php/2016/03/07/call-for-presentation-fiatifta-world-conference-2016/

 

Hoping to see you all in Poland!

 

Best,

Brecht Declercq
Digitisation and Acquisition Manager

 

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The 20th SEAPAVAA Conference Registration is now open for interested attendees. For more information on the conference, please visit: http://seapavaaconference.com/

For Local Registration please register via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KEUjqCCSYRjCr1N1AoeLLE0-l_CtcMEYQTB_ktHX_wU/viewform

For Overseas Registration please register via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CkUmI_yu9eK3Mx_5uB_m4-_1C1g19Udk9aBrioZzWD0/viewform

 

For reference please visit http://seapavaaconference.com/call-for-paper/