Wednesday4Oct 2017
Mining Archives: Original Research with Digital & Physical Primary Materials
DRAW - Discover Research & Arts Week
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
4:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m. PST
Hosted By
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Office of the Provost
THIS SESSION IS OPEN TO ALL WITH RSVP. Graduate Students can enroll in this workshop through my.chapman.edu. Course number is GUS 530. Undergraduates and others interested in attending can RSVP to Allison DeVries at devries@chapman.edu
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2017 4-6:50PM
Mining the Archives: Uncovering Original Research Opportunities Using Digital and Physical Primary Materials
SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union Conference Suite, Lyon Conference Center, Second Floor, Argyros Forum, Room 209 C
This workshop will discuss original research opportunities for graduate students vis-a-vis primary materials using film and television history as a case study. The evolving practice of incorporating primary sources into graduate courses and research has led to a growing need for access to archival materials. We will discuss opportunities within physical archives and special collections libraries available in Southern California, including those at the Leatherby Library and its Special Collections, the Margaret Herrick Library, UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections and the Film and Television Archive, and the USC Warner Bros. Archives and Cinematic Arts libraries. We will also examine how digital repositories and search engines (including the Media History Digital Library, Proquest, etc.) have provided unprecedented access to primary materials online and students will have the opportunity to troubleshoot these databases in the workshop.
Emily Carman, Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Emily Carman is an assistant professor of film studies in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. She is author of Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System (UT Press, 2016), articles in Cinephile, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Celebrity Studies, and The Moving Image, and co-editor of Hollywood and the Law (BFI Press, 2015). Prior to her academic career, she worked as an archivist at the Academy Film Archive and as curator at the USC Warner Bros. Archives. Her research encompasses American film and media historiography, screen labor, and archival practice and theory.
You can contact the event organizer, Allison DeVries at devries@chapman.edu or (714) 997-6752.
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