Excavated Footage, US Archives, and Alternative Historiography
The Schedule
Day 1
MARCH 11 THU (Eastern Time)
19:00 - 20:10
Keynote Barrios and Bridges: USIA film and television and the Alliance for Progress with Latin America in the 1960s
Nicholas J. Cull (USC)
Break 20:10 - 20:15
20:15 - 22:25
Panel 1 The CIE and USIS Films in Japan: Historiographical Analysis
Yuka Tsuchiya (Kyoto University)
Panel 1 "Television on the Tigris" (1956-57): Excavating Televisual Diplomacy through the USIA/S Paper-trail
Hadi Gharabaghi (Drew University)
Panel 1 Mutual Security as Mutual Aid: How the US Government exploited Their Back Film Catalog for the Atomic Age
Regina Longo (Brown University)
Panel 1 Reframing Historiographic Paradigms of USIA Research in the American Context
Bret Vukoder (University of Delaware)
Panel 1 Notes on Networked Scholarship, Fugitive Archives: The Media Ecology Project
Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth College)
Break 22:25 - 22:30
22:30 - 00:00
Roundtable 1 Alternative Archival Futures
Kathleen M. Ryan (University of Colorado, Boulder) and David M. Staton (University of Northern Colorado)
Brian Real (Southern Connecticut State University)
Jennifer Horne (UC Santa Cruz)
Jung-a Kim (Konkuk University)
Day 2
MARCH 12 FRI (Eastern Time)
19:00 - 20:40
Panel 2 Fragment of Encounter: Excavating “the Chinese Colleen Moore” and “Newsreel” Wong in Transnational Digital Archives
Xin Peng (University of Washington, Seattle)
Panel 2 Between Frames: Missionary Films, Visual Afterlives, and American Encounters with East Asia
Joseph W. Ho (Albion College)
Panel 2 Screening the Empire: Liberty News and the Making of Postcolonial Korea
Juwon Kim (University of Toronto)
Panel 2 The Archive and the Catalog: How Government Films Disguise Provenance
Martin L. Johnson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Break 20:40 - 20:45
20:45 - 22:25
Panel 3 [Film] Ghost Tape #10
Sean David Christensen (Visual Artist)
Panel 3 From Appropriation to Counter-Archiving: The Uses of U.S. Footages via Okinawa’s One-Foot Film Movement in Park Soo-nam’s Trans-East Asian Postcolonial Testimony Films
Shota Ogawa (Nagoya University)
Panel 3 ‘The Bard Wouldn’t Recognize Hamlet’: Seeing Ghana’s Hamile: The Tongo Hamlet (1965) Preserved
Jennifer Anne Blaylock (Oberlin College)
Panel 3 A War Propaganda in Translation: This Is Korea! from John Ford to Henry Chung DeYoung
Hahkyung Darline Kim (UC Santa Cruz)
Break 22:25 - 22:30
22:30 - 00:00
Roundtable 2 Interventions and Counterhegemony
Sangjoon Lee (Nanyang Technological University)
Han Sang Kim (Ajou University)
Chonghwa Chung (Korean Film Archive)
Eric Hoyt (University of Wisconsin-Madison)