<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Call for
Papers</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Excavated Footage, US
Archives, and Alternative Historiography</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Virtual Workshop & Edited Volumes</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Workshop Dates: March 11-12, 2021 EST / March
12-13 KST</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Organized by Mark J.
Williams (Dartmouth College) and Han Sang Kim (Ajou University)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Application deadline: November 15, 2020 EST</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">The</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> past decade ha</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">s s</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">een emerging scholarship</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">s</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> in the
fields of history, media studies, qualitative social studies, and area studies
that endeavor new approaches to historiography by excavating, collecting, and
analyzing film and film footage from archives. However, the very concern over
how a new type of historiography will be made possible by archival film footage
has rarely been comprehensively discussed among the involved scholars from
diverse geographical and disciplinary backgrounds. Some would understand those
camera images as containers of indexical information that can play a
supplementary role to textual data in positivist historiography, others may try
to find certain shared characteristics of specific genres in those creative
products, such as newsreels, propaganda features, and documentaries, to build
historiography of a self-contained art form, and another would stand somewhere
in between, seeking both </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">to </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">identify the audiovisual medium</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">’</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">s peculiar capacity to reach for reality and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">to </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">put it within a broader context. This collaborative project aims to set
the stage for a first step to the comprehensive discussion among film &
media scholars, historians, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">sociologists,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">anthropologists,
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">and area studies scholars, about their thought</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">s</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">critique</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> to
generate</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> alternative historiography through excavated
film footage. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Under this objective, we have a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> specific</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> concern that will give concreteness to our rather theoretical, initial
concern: the locus of those excavated footage materials, namely US archives.
The aforementioned audiovisual-archival turn in recent scholarships has been
considerably indebted to the vast collections of US archives, as well as those
archives</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">’</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> high accessibility. The US National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA), among others, has been visited by a considerably large number of
researchers from various geographical and disciplinary backgrounds and has
offered a great number of moving image materials in the public domain. This
generosity, although extremely helpful in the development of all the involved
foreign and local academia, has constituted a specific type of episteme in
which the positionality of US archives plays a crucial role</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">, namely, the hierarchy in
global archival knowledge regimes</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">. This collaborative project will
involve scholars who have experience with US archives, including not only NARA
but also many other institutes and university libraries, to share their
thoughts about this knowledge regime and seek for an alternative, critical,
and/or reflexive historiographical approach to it.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume that will be published
in both English and Korean, entitled <i>Excavated Footage, US Archives, and
Alternative Historiography</i>, edited by Mark J. Williams and Han Sang Kim. Scholars
whose proposals have been selected will be requested to join a two-half-a-day virtual
workshop via Zoom on March 11 and 12, 2021 EST (March 12 and 13 KST) and give
presentations on their chapters. We welcome chapter proposals from any
geographical and disciplinary backgrounds, and scholars at any stage of their
academic career are encouraged to participate. The volume will be published by
a major US or British publisher in the course of 2022, and another volume with
full translations in Korean will be published by a renowned academic publisher
in South Korea in the same year. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> <span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Possible topics include (but are not limited to)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">:</span></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Post/colonial
     & non-Western Cold War historiography and archival films: theoretical
     aspects</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">US
     National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and its film materials</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">US
     public archives, university libraries, and their film materials</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">USIA/S,
     CIA, Asia Foundation, US Armed Forces, etc. and their film materials</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Non-US
     archives & libraries and their collecting of US film materials</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Films
     found from US archives and the historiography of non-US societies</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Films
     found from US archives and their public reception in non-US societies</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Digitization
     of archival films and the new environments for alternative historiography</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">Data
     mining, machine learning, machine vision, and the global knowledge regime </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></li>
</ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">All proposals must include an abstract of approximately 250-300 words plus
a selected bibliography, and a short biographical sketch of the author’s
research interest and recent publications. Please email your proposal to </span><a href="mailto:hansangkim@ajou.ac.kr" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">hansangkim@ajou.ac.kr</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> by November 15, 2020 EST.</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Han Sang KIM, PhD</span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Assistant Professor of Sociology</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Ajou University</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">206 Worldcup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 16499 South Korea</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>