Call for papers

A key theme of the conference will be ‘Archiving and Curating Women’s Media Histories: Feminist Approaches, Practices and Possibilities’. The theme will foreground the importance of archivists and curators in the dynamic processes of doing women’s media histories. The archival turn in women’s media histories has produced a rich tradition of new work and has innovated enabling methodologies. This conference seeks to foster further dialogue among archival researchers, professional archivists, and curators in media heritage collections to better understand how the archival discovery and recovery of feminist historiography is always intertwined with archival and curatorial labour, practices, and processes. The conference aims to explore feminist approaches to archival and curatorial practice, and to acknowledge the importance of archivists and curators in the shared project of Doing Women’s Media Histories, but we will also welcome papers on feminist media histories outside of the key…