Cinema memory: 1930s Britain and beyond – a Symposium

We are delighted to launch a call for interest for what will be a unique symposium, held (virtually) at Lancaster University on 22 and 23 January 2021. As part of the Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive research project, the symposium will offer an opportunity for a small number of scholars to engage with a sample collection of holdings from our archive. An exclusive pre-launch portal will be set up, containing a range of ethnographic participant data and other relevant artefacts, and we invite speakers to incorporate these materials into their papers. Of course, how this material is integrated is up to you – we anticipate that some may base their entire paper on the collection, whilst others may use the materials to complement or contrast their existing work and findings.

Speakers at the Cinema Memory: 1930s Britain and Beyond symposium will be amongst the first to have digital access to material that Annette Kuhn, a co-investigator on this project, collected and curated during her landmark Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain project, ahead of our roll-out launches over the coming year. A small example of such material can be found on our Twitter account – @cinema_memory – or on our current work-in-progress website – https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cmda.

Once interest is registered, we will in due course provide access to the password-protected portal and ask interested parties to provide a brief abstract for their paper.

To register interest, please contact Jamie Terrill – j.terrill@lancaster.ac.uk