We are delighted to invite you to this symposium, which focuses on the ways in which audiovisual archives and film historiography in African and diasporic contexts are entangled with one another.
Bringing together film and screen media scholars, filmmakers, curators, and archivists, the symposium will explore the impact of categories, catalogues and metadata on film history; reflect on the physical and virtual locations of the archive and their implications for access, praxis, and curatorship; and examine how these ultimately affect our understandings of heritage and cultural memory.
Our guest speakers are: curator and research Can Sungu with the SINEMA TRANSTOPIA project; John Sundholm, Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University; Lars Gustav Andersson Professor of Film studies at Lund University; Dagmar Brunow Professor of Film studies at Linnaeus University; Christian Rossipal, filmmaker and postdoctoral fellow in Film and Media at Yale University; Salad Hilowle, filmmaker, writer and artist; Erica Carter, Professor of German and Film at King’s College London; Ben Yede, archivist at the Audiovisual Archives of the RadioTélévision Ivoirienne (RTI).
The presentations will be followed by a film screening of Salad Hilowle’s short films: Vanus Labor (2021) & Sylwan (2022)
Date: 26 March 2026
Time: 9:00 – 17:00 (CET)
Venue: Lecture Hall XI, Universitetshuset, Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala.
The event is open for all, no registration needed.
Contact person: Oulia Makkonen, oulia.makkonen@engelska.uu.se
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