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Dear colleagues, The following conference may be of interest to you. Moving Image Archiving and the Academy A MeCCSA Practice Section Conference Saturday, 15 March 2008, University of Leeds Call for Papers Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Nicholas Pronay (University of Leeds) Professor Charles Barr (Washington University in St. Louis) For over three decades, British universities have played a pivotal role in helping to preserve and curate our audiovisual heritage, as well as researching the cultural and historical significance of archival moving images. From the establishment of the Slade Film History Register in 1969 and the East Anglian Film Archive in 1976, the higher education sector has supported and nurtured the archives themselves. Pioneering journals and monograph series which pioneered the interpretation of film and television as cultural form and primary historical evidence, notably Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and Routledge’s Cinema and Society series, have their roots in British universities. Currently the regional film archive movement effectively depends on the support of British HEIs for its survival (five of the regional film archives are situated within universities), and most of the important recent research and curation projects involving national collections have taken place through partnerships between archives and universities using HE-related funding streams; the Mitchell and Kenyon project being a prime example. Following on from MeCCSA’s Future of Screen Heritage symposium held in September, we should now reassess the nature of the institutional and intellectual links which exist between our film archives and our universities, and to explore how they might develop and strengthen. The conference is intended to explore the requirements of the sector, including what requires funding now and in the future, rather than strategies for achieving such funding. We therefore invite proposals for papers or presentations of 15 minutes in this area. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: • The ways in which archival moving images are used in HE research and teaching; • Scholarship related to the theory and practice of moving image preservation and restoration; • The impact of new technologies on archival practice and policy; • The role of HE institutions in training moving image archivists; • Case studies exploring the aims, practices and development of moving image archives situated within HEIs; • Academics and public policy related to archival practice, e.g. copyright and legal deposit. Proposals for complete panels (of up to 90 minutes) are welcome, though we reserve the right to split panel proposals and accept individual papers from them. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words to: Dr. Leo Enticknap Institute of Communications Studies Houldsworth Building, 3rd Floor University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0) 113 343 5853 Fax. +44 (0) 113 343 5808 Email: [log in to unmask] Please indicate in your submission if you have any special audio-visual requirements. Deadline for Submissions: Monday 7 January 2007 Supported by the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association, Practice Section (MeCCSA Practice); and by the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC).