archiving

This thematic session will focus on ‘the archive’ and archiving practices. We will explore some influential conceptualizations of the archive, discuss ‘actually existing’ archives – scholarly, artistic, speculative – and creatively reflect upon our own archiving practices within the minor. What kind of epistemological, aesthetic and political choices does an archive involve? And of what value is the archive as a theoretical figure and as a transdisciplinary practice for re-imagining the future?

thematic session
Mon 5 Oct
13.30-16.30

Dr. Maria Tamboukou is a scholar in Gender and Feminist Studies and Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London. She is a member of the Scientific Board of the ‘Hannah Arendt’ Centre for Political Studies at the University of Verona, Italy and of the International Advisory Board for the Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory (SELMA), at the University of Turku, Finland. She has been the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Australian Academy of Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Maria’s research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author of 7 monographs, 2 co-authored books, 3 co-edited volumes on research methods and more than 80 articles and book chapters. She has rich journal editorial experience, including co-editor of the journal Gender and Education and section editor of Matter: a Journal of New Materialist Research. Writing histories of the present is the central focus of her work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies.

Nadine Valcin is an award-winning bilingual producer, writer and director. Her factual and documentary work has been shown in Canada on CBC, CBC News Network, TVO, W, Artv, Réseau de l’information (RDI), Société Radio-Canada (SRC), TFO, as well TV One and the History Network in the United States.She has directed four documentary projects for the National Film Board of Canada, including the critically-acclaimed Black, Bold and Beautiful (1999) and Une école sans frontières (A School without Borders, 2008). Her current focus is on dramatic projects. She has written and directed three short narrative films and is developing two feature films as well as the virtual reality experience Ghosts of Remembrance about the forgotten history of slavery in Canada. Nadine has been awarded numerous grants and prizes including two prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowships and a Drama Prize from the National Screen Institute for the short film In Between. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and is an alumna of Doc Lab, Women in the Director’s Chair, and the National Screen Institute. She was an artist-in-residence for the 2015-16 academic year at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and the recipient of the 2016 WIFT-T/DGC Ontario Director Mentorship.