Moving Histories: Public Memory and Visual Culture
An International Symposium
Theme: Public History in an Age of Visual Culture and Parallel Pasts
Dates: October 24-27 in Windsor, Ontario
Presented by the Moving Histories Project with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
The Moving Histories Project is pleased to present a 2024 symposium to explore history, historiography, and historical truth through moving images in the screen age.
We will consider our sociocultural environment propelled by multimodality, visuals, algorithms, and interactivity on proliferating screens at a crucial time of technological change, political instability, and narrative conflict over history.
The symposium includes a cross-section of the most important scholars and innovative filmmakers worldwide who work in the intersecting fields of history, film, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
The symposium is presented in partnership with The University of Windsor, featuring presentations by international scholars including Nicole Basaraba, Robert Burgoyne, Rasmus Greiner, Chris Kempshall, Alison Landsberg, Robert A. Rosenstone, Christine Sprengler, Jonathan Stubbs, Eleftheria Thanouli, and John Trafton with special presentations by Jesse Wente, and filmmakers Ali Kazimi, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, and Cyrus Sundar Singh.
Proceedings to be published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal of the field Film & History.
We are pleased to host the symposium in conjunction with the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) Art Windsor Essex (AWE) the Humanities Research Group (HRG) and The School of Creative Arts (SoCA) at the University of Windsor.
Public Symposium Schedule
PANEL A
METHODS
Jonathan Stubbs
Kim Nelson
Eleftheria Thanouli
Alison Landsberg
PANEL B
MODES
Christine Sprengler
John Trafton
Nicole Basaraba
Chris Kempshall
PANEL C
NATIONAL CINEMAS
Sonette Duncan
Isha Faisal
Yilin Zhu
Egor Korneev
PANEL D
THEORIES
Robert Burgoyne
Rasmus Greiner
Robert Nelson
Robert A. Rosenstone
Moving Histories Symposium 2022
The 2024 symposium follows the 2022 Moving Histories symposium and book project
The Moving Histories Network’s first symposium, coordinated by Kim Nelson, took place online in October 2022 to support The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image (2023), edited by Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Kim Nelson, and Mia E.M. Treacey.
Participants included: Claire Ahn, Robert Burgoyne, Ann Gray, Nick Hector, Eve Herold, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Chera Kee, Avery Lafortune, Alison Landsberg, Sara Maclean, James Miles, Kim Nelson, Ernesto Peña, William R. Pinch, Philip Rosen, Robert A. Rosenstone, Christine Sprengler, Jonathan Stubbs, Eleftheria Thanouli, John Trafton, Mia E.M. Treacey, Recebba Weeks, and Lisa Woolfork.