Dear all, apologies for cross-posting. Here is a film archive event which might be of interest. Attached please find the poster plus the programme. All welcome. Regards, Nezih Erdogan Istanbul Sehir University FORGETTING THE ARCHIVE 22 - 24 NOVEMBER 2018 Archives are not only places to collect, assemble and categorize documentary information but also sites of historical struggle over the writing, filming, collection, destruction, translation and interpretation. The question of management of cultural heritage cannot be simply limited to processes of preservation and conservation, but also it requires an investigation of the ways in which archiving creates new forms of academic and artistic studies. In other words, these studies on archives, instead of merely focusing on data collection, scrutinize how the past -in the form of a film, a text, an image, is being recreated and reimagined in the present. Thus, forgetting the archive envisages a process that is integral to remembering and recreating. The Film Department of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism is going to launch a website of film archive, a great majority of which consists of silent films from the first half of the past century-1900s. Regarding this crucial moment in cultural history, the Cinema Television Department of İstanbul Şehir University is organizing an international symposium, ‘Forgetting the Archive’. The symposium aims to provide an academic and artistic platform for the discussion of philosophical and theoretical issues pertaining to the archives. To this end, the symposium brings together scholars, archive directors, and artists from the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, India, Netherlands and Turkey. The goals of the symposium are not limited to exploring and discussing the meaning of archives, as it further aims at developing a cultural dialogue and connection between different academic and artistic networks, as well as initiating international collaborations and partnerships. İstanbul Şehir University envisages this international event as the first in a series of annual symposiums that will draw on the participation of international scholars and artists in collaboration with worldwide universities, archives and cultural institutions. INVITED SPEAKERS Elif Akçalı, Kadir Has University, Istanbul Canan Balan, İstanbul Şehir University Ian Christie, Birkbeck University of London Peyami Çelikcan, İstanbul Şehir University Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Bülent Diken, Kadir Has University, Istanbul Gustav Deutsch, Artist, Film Director, Vienna Nezih Erdoğan, İstanbul Şehir University Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam Nurçin İleri, Boğaziçi University, Université Grenoble Alpes University, LARHRA Claudy Op Den Kamp, Bournemouth University Nico de Klerk, Utrecht University Peter Kramer, De Monfort University, Leicester Aslı Odman, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul Saadet Özen, EHESS, Paris Esin Paça Cengiz, Kadir Has University, Istanbul Barış Saydam, Türk Sinema Araştırmaları, Istanbul Rashmi Sawhney, Christ University, Bangalore Asuman Suner, Istanbul Technical University, Sabancı University Serkan Şavk, İzmir Ekonomi University Nikolaus Wostry, Austrian Film Archive, Vienna Mustafa Selçuk Yavuzkanat, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Directorate of Cinema, Ankara Erkin Yılmaz, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Directorate of Cinema, Ankara LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT Çiğdem Borucu Güniz Alkaç Nurcan Arısoy Nezih Erdoğan Chair, Department of Film and Television School of Communication Istanbul Sehir University www.neziherdogan.net https://www.flickr.com/photos/148742103@N08/page1 http://linksresources-cinema.tumblr.com/ ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org