Theatre in Europe – told by the archives
Interview with Dame Peggy Ashcroft Dame Peggy Ashcroft, one of Britain’s top stage actresses, on why she chose the theatre over TV. *Creator: BBC/United Kingdom,
In Europe Schools: A unique exchange project for European Schools
History Caught In The Act VPRO television joined forces with the internationally renowned author Geert Mak travelling through Europe and its history in order to
(Re)Viewing European Stories Co-creation workshop
(Re)Viewing European Stories is an educational pilot project which aims to encourage and promote historical critical thinking among high school students and teachers. The pilot develops new interactive learning activities based largely on audiovisual archival content coming from the EUscreen and Europeana collections.
5th Anniversary of the TIB AV-Portal: Using Video Analysis to Explore Science
5 years ago, the AV-Portal of our network partner the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) was launched. The goal of the TIB AV-Portal is the professional hosting and semantic indexing of scientific videos for research purposes, especially in the fields of technology and natural sciences.
Latest issue of VIEW Journal: Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities
It is our great pleasure to present the new issue of VIEW Journal: ‘Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities’. This special issue, co-edited by Andreas Fickers, Pelle Snickars and Mark J. Williams, provides a critical survey of new Digital Humanities methods and tools directed toward audiovisual media. While digital humanities as a…
“Stories of AV Archives”: A Podcast Series
“Stories of AV Archives” is a podcast series brought to you by the Audiovisual Think Tank (AVTT) – a group of experts working with audiovisual archives around the world, exploring challenges and seeking ways to promote and sustain our audiovisual heritage. The series brings attention to the issues raised in the work…
Tele(visualising) Health: Television, Public health, its Enthusiasts and its Publics
Tele(visualising) Health conference concentrated on public health and brought together international scholars from history, history of medicine, communication, media and film studies, television studies working on the history of television. After World War II, TV was…
Making Copyright Law Accessible – Learning on Screen
How can broadcast archives promote their content and make it accessible for reuse without violating copyright regulations? We invited Bartolomeo Meletti, copyright service delivery manager at Learning On Screen and an active member in the EUscreen network, to guide us through the complex field of copyright laws…
The Annual EUscreen Network Meeting 2019
On 15 March, EUscreen network partners gathered in Luxembourg for the third annual network meeting. The EUscreen Foundation Board invited its partners from European broadcast archives, collecting institutions, researchers and technologists to come together and share new ideas on the access, use and…
EXTENDED DEADLINE for FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2019
The 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference will take place at the Rixos Hotel in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from October 22nd – 25th and will be hosted by HRT (Hrvatska Radiotelevizija) and supported by the HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre) and the City of Dubrovnik.Audiovisual content today dominates every aspect of our global media…
Call for Papers: ‘Reclaiming the Screen: Addressing Overlooked Women in Film and Television’
De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI) is pleased to invite Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers to its eighth annual postgraduate conference, focusing on overlooked women in the film, television and media industries…
CADEAH: European History Reloaded
On February 1, the members of the European History Reloaded: Curation and Appropriation of Digital Audiovisual Heritage (CADEAH) project met at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague. CADEAH is a new project that researches the online circulation and appropriation of audiovisual heritage using an integrated and interdisciplinary approach…
Call for Papers: The Youthification of Television and Screen Culture
Television is constantly testing its definitional boundaries. What was formerly defined by ways of transmission and screen technology, is more and more in dissolution in today’s mediated landscape. Young people, especially, are turning away from traditional broadcast television – and turning towards other screens and formats…
The MediArXiv project launched
The new preprint server MediArXiv was launched in January and will begin accepting submissions on Friday, February 1. The project, initiated by Open Access in Media
IAMHIST Symposium “Standing in the Way of White Noise: Preserving Television History”
On 25 January 2019, The International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) and our network partner Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA) hosted the symposium “Standing in the Way of White Noise: Preserving Television History”. Heritage professionals…
