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
Krzysztof Wasilewski (Koszalin University of Technology) Alternative Local Magazines as Social Archives: The Case of Kwartalnik Drezdenecki [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
Eszter Nagy (freelance audiovisual designer, Budapest) What can archiving citrus wrapping paper teach us? An alternative mode of preserving cultural heritage [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