[KS] CFP: Excavated Footage, US Archives, and Alternative Historiography, March 2021

[Han Sang KIM]

Call for Papers



*Excavated Footage, US Archives, and Alternative Historiography*



Virtual Workshop & Edited Volumes

Workshop Dates: March 11-12, 2021 EST / March 12-13 KST

Organized by Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth College) and Han Sang Kim (Ajou
University)



*Application deadline: November 15, 2020 EST*



The past decade has seen emerging scholarships 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 to identify the
audiovisual medium’s peculiar capacity to reach for reality and to 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, sociologists, anthropologists, and area studies
scholars, about their thoughts and critiques to generate alternative
historiography through excavated film footage.



Under this objective, we have a specific 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’
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,
namely, the hierarchy in global archival knowledge regimes. 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.



We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume that will be published in
both English and Korean, entitled *Excavated Footage, US Archives, and
Alternative Historiography*, 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.



Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

   - Post/colonial & non-Western Cold War historiography and archival
   films: theoretical aspects
   - US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and its film
   materials
   - US public archives, university libraries, and their film materials
   - USIA/S, CIA, Asia Foundation, US Armed Forces, etc. and their film
   materials
   - Non-US archives & libraries and their collecting of US film materials
   - Films found from US archives and the historiography of non-US societies
   - Films found from US archives and their public reception in non-US
   societies
   - Digitization of archival films and the new environments for
   alternative historiography
   - Data mining, machine learning, machine vision, and the global
   knowledge regime



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
hansangkim at ajou.ac.kr by November 15, 2020 EST.

-- 
Han Sang KIM, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ajou University
206 Worldcup-ro, Yeongtong-gu,
Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 16499 South Korea
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