23-24 October 2025, Seminar: Alternative Media Archives. Challenges of longue durée research and preservation practices
On 23-24 October 2025, the second seminar of Work package 4 will take place at University of Lausanne and online by registration (see instructions below).
The seminar is co-organised by the Cinématheque suisse, the University of Lausanne and CEU/Blinken OSA Archivum
ACTIVATE WP4 Hybrid Seminar 2. Location: UNIL – Anthropole – Room n.2013 (Thursday 23 October) and n.4021 (Friday 24 October)
Thursday 23 October 2025
1.30pm Welcome (Oksana Sarkisova & François Vallotton)
Panel 1: Alternative Media Archives
2.00 pm – 3.45 pm
Frédéric Deshusses (Archives Contestataires, Genève) Diaspora media and legal deposit of printed works (dépôt légal des imprimés): When private archives fill the gaps in public conservation policies
Özge Çelikaslan (Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum) Living Commons, Fragile Infrastructures: Rethinking Alternative Media Archives through bak.ma
Eszter Nagy (freelance audiovisual designer, Budapest) What can archiving citrus wrapping paper teach us? An alternative mode of preserving cultural heritage [online]
BREAK
Panel 2: Archival knowledge transfer and dissent in Eastern Europe
4.15 pm – 5.45 pm
Anna Nakai (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Editorial Activism as Transnational Knowledge Transfer: The Case of Poland Monthly in 1980s Japan [online]
Giulia de Carlini (Bologna University) “Other” Memories: Creation, Management and Preservation of GDR Feminist Archives (1987-2023) [online]
Friday 24 October 2025
Panel 3: Multimedia Archives: Preservation and Exhibition Strategies
9.30 am – 11.15 am
Nicola Hellmann-McFarland (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn) Preserving Archival Films: Strategies for Mitigating Deterioration and Embracing Digitization [online]
Anna Hodel (Basel University) Alternative Archiving and Practices of Remediating in Contemporary Queer Art of the South Caucasus
Krzysztof Wasilewski (Koszalin University of Technology) Alternative Local Magazines as Social Archives: The Case of Kwartalnik Drezdenecki [online]
BREAK
Panel 4: Internet Archives and New Digital Challenges
11.30 pm – 12.45 pm
Alexei Chumakov (University of Manchester) Archiving Resistance in Real Time: Telegram and the Russian Opposition in Exile (2016–2025)
Antonino Sciotto (University of Piemonte Orientale) Networks before the Internet: The Cybernet Archive
12.45-1.15 pm Concluding discussion
To register for online participation please write to secretariat-histoire@unil.ch, subject ACTIVATE and indicate your name and institutional affiliation.
For further project details please visit activate-horizon.eu
Registration deadline: October 17, 2025