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

Each semester Wilkinson College offers a variety of workshops for graduate students on topics related to academic, personal, and career development. Graduate Students may register for this 0 credit P/NP class through my.chapman.edu. Course number is GUS 530. Undergraduate students who have been admitted to a 4+1 program or who have less than 18 credits remaining for graduation may register through the Undergraduate Request to Register for Graduate Course form available on the Office of the Registrar's website.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2017 4-6:50PM

Mining the Archives: Uncovering Original Research Opportunities Using Digital and Physical Primary Materials

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 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.