Doctoral Workshop: Alternative archives, materials, and media histories

The doctoral workshop is intended to provide participants with the opportunity to discuss their ongoing research projects and mingle. In addition to panels during which PhD students present and discuss their research, the workshop will feature three invited keynote speakers.

Venue

October 12-13, 2026
Filmhuset, Stockholm (Sweden)

The event is open for students and staff from Stockholm University (Keynote Events may be public - see each keynote event for details)

The broad theme of the doctoral workshop is to engage with and explore aspects of Alternative Archives, Materials, and Media Histories. The status of the ‘archive’ has become increasingly pluralised with ‘new’ discoveries reframing our epistemological frameworks and understandings of historical phenomena. This shift has enabled more heterogeneous modes of historical writing about media and the arts, opening new possibilities for considering their entanglements with surrounding social, political, and cultural dynamics. The workshop creates a spacde to reflect and engage with this development and to promote novel perspectives and ways of understanding media histories.

Program

October 12

Monday, 12 October

10:30-12:00 Panel 1, F-salen
Reorganising Archival Images, Sounds and Experimental Forms of Self-Documentation

Ellie Power, University of Gothenburg
“Droning Cinema: Documenting Undocumentation in Nowhere Near”

Emma Duquet, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne et Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St-Denis; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Online)
“The filmed diaries of Sadie Benning, Anne-Charlotte Robertson and Lionel Soukaz: political devices for intermedial self-writing”

Paolo Lasagni, Université Paris 8 - EDESTA
“The Incomplete Archive as Creative Source: Visual Spolia and Fragmentary Histories in Derek Jarman and Laura Mulvey”

13:00-14:30 Panel 2, F-salen
Alternative History of Swedish Cinema, Industry and Culture

Charlie Van, Lund University
“Home Video as Film Practice: Sweden and the 1980s”
Sonya Helgesson Ralevic, Stockholm University
“Intermedial approaches to the eagle cause: Bengt Berg’s “The last eagle” and the persistence of the endangerment discourse”
Taichi Niibori, Stockholm University
“Alternative Narratives of Early Swedish Children’s Cinema: Beyond Rascality and Masculinity through Female Creative Agency”

15:00 Keynote Event, F-salen
Kerstin Herlt, Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt
“DE-BIAS — Confronting Discriminatory Language in Cultural Heritage Collections”

16:00 Special Screening, Bio Mauritz
“Archival Materials from the Deutsches Film Institute & Filmmuseum”

Link to own event page

October 13

Tuesday, 13 October

9:15-11:15 Panel 3, F-salen (Chair: Ellie Power)
Power, Preservation and Exhibition

Stefan Ramstedt, Umeå University
“Conceptualizing the Film Archival Exhibitionary Apparatus”
Aliisa Qureshi, Stockholm University
“Cinematic Diplomacy: European Union Film Festivals”
Naz Ekmekci, University of Gothenburg
“Foreclosed Frames: Censorship and Control in Post-Gezi Turkish Cinema”
Andrea Hauer, Independent
“Formatting as a Constitutive Mechanism of the Archive”

11:15 Keynote, F-salen
Laura Horak, Carleton University
“Accountable, Accessible, and Collaborative: Building the Transgender Media Portal” Link to own event page

13:15-14:45 Panel 4, F-salen (Chair: Naz Ekmekci)
Perception, Body and Expression of the Self

Jason Meredith, Stockholm University
““Finnish Woman of Male Gender Makes Film in USA” – The Agency of Anssi Kansas”
Aleks Forsenberg, Stockholm University
“Meltdowns in Public: Epistemic Injustice and the Autistic Experience in Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession (1981)”
Natasha Nedelkova, Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
“The Manaki Brothers’ 35mm Bioscope Film Archive (1905) Reconsidered: From National Archive to Contemporary Art”

15:15 Keynote, F-salen
Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen
“Nation, Identity, and Entangled Film Historiography” Link to own event page

16:15 Closing Remarks

Contact: archive.phdworkshop2026@ims.su.se

Key note speakers

Laura Horak (Carleton University)

Bio: Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University and director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. She is co-curator of the 99-film Bluray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino Lorber, 2022), author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (University of California 2026) and Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema (Rutgers 2016).

Casper Tybjerg (University of Copenhagen)

Bio: Casper Tybjerg is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. A scholar of Danish and international silent film, he is the co-editor of the anthology Danish and German Silent Cinema: Towards a Common Film Culture (Edinburgh UP 2023). In 2024, he was awarded the Dr. Phil. (Habilitation) degree for the forthcoming book The Historiography of Filmmaking – through the Lens of Carl Th. Dreyer. He has worked with the Danish Film Institute to restore Danish silent films and has co- organized several retrospectives, including at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.

Kerstin Herlt (Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum) with Swedish Film Institute.

Bio: Kerstin Herlt is an EU project manager at the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF) in Frankfurt am Main.

Find us

Filmhuset, Borgvägen 1-5

Map

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Public transport

Use the online SL planning tool (in Swedish)
More information in English

Contact

If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact the organization team at archive.phdworkshop2026@ims.su.se

Last updated: 2026-10-09

Source: Department of Media Studies