Date: 17-19 November 2022
Venue: Deutscher Sprachatlas, Pilgrimstein 16, 35037 Marburg
Our Time Machine member the Philipps-Universität Marburg (DE) invites to their international conference Doing Digital Film History which concludes their international research network New Directions in Film Historiography funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The research network started in 2019 and comes to an official project end in December 2022.
Please visit the conference website for further details on speakers and the programme.
New Directions in Film History
New Directions in Film Historiography aims to collaboratively explore how digital technologies shape our understanding of film and cinema history from a media studies perspective. Analyzing a selection of different research projects, the network seeks to theorize current scholarly media practices in the field of the digital humanities. In order to analyze the epistemic, conceptual, and methodological frameworks of digital film historiography, the network brings together theory with practice. It assumes that the challenges and potentials of digital tools can only be understood in its far-reaching dimensions when both applied and critically reflected.
The network focuses less on digital cinema or new media but rather on film historiographic data, digital methods, tools, and platforms which are used in the humanities. However, research outcomes and discourses on how we define and thereby produce historic sources play an important role, particularly when it comes to archiving and presentation practices.
The network wishes to contribute to ongoing discussions about the relationship between the digital humanities and film and media studies. It seeks to advance research on the implications of digitalization for the humanities on an interdisciplinary level. Besides film and media studies, it draws on approaches from various disciplines by spanning history, software studies, library and archive studies, and computer science.