Television Drama Conference: Archives, Access and Research, 22 February 2017, NFT3, BFI Southbank, London, 11-6pm

 

22 February 2017, NFT3, BFI Southbank, London, 11-6pm. 

An event co-hosted by the BFI, Learning on Screen/BUFVC and the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway (in association with the AHRC-funded ‘Forgotten Television Drama’ research project)

Rationale

·       to bring archivists, television professionals, academics and enthusiasts together to discuss areas of mutual interest and benefit

·       to discuss the challenges involved in the provision of information on, and access to, historical television material (particularly forgotten and less well-known television drama)

·       to consider how the relationships between archives, broadcasters and HEIs may be further improved

·       to consider the ways in which archives, broadcasters and HEIs may work together to develop access to information and holdings, collaborate to make historical television drama better understood and to increase its educational, cultural and commercial value.

Schedule

11.10-11.10        Welcome:

·       Virginia Haworth-Galt (Chief Executive, Learning on Screen/BUFVC)

·       John Hill (Professor of Media, Royal Holloway, University of London)

11.10-12.40     Panel 1: Archives, information and access

Chair:  Lez Cooke (Royal Holloway, University of London)

·       Dale Grayson (Director of Content Management and Information Policy, ITV)

·       John Wyver (Writer and producer with Illuminations and Senior Research Fellow, University of Westminster)

·       Gabriele Popp (Head of Collections and Information, BFI)

·       Sue Malden (Media Archive Consultant)

·       Jake Berger (Product Manager, Research and Education Space, BBC Archive and Development)

12.40-13.30     Lunch  

13.30 -15.00    Panel 2: Availability and exhibition

Chair: Hilary Bishop (Project Director, Research and Education Space, BBC)

·       Andrew Yeates (General Counsel, Educational Recording Agency)

·       Sergio Angelini (Head of Membership Services and Information, Learning on Screen)

·       Tim Beddows (Managing Director, Network Distributing Ltd)

·       John Ellis (Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London)

·       Dick Fiddy (Writer, researcher and TV archive programmer, BFI Southbank)

15.00-15.30     Tea

15.30 -17.15    Panel 3: Research, education and use

Chair: John Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London)

·       Bill Thompson (Partnership Lead on Make it Digital and Head of Partnership Development, BBC Archive and Development)

·       Luke McKernan (Lead Curator, News and Moving Image, British Library)

·       Lisa Kerrigan (Television Curator, National Archive, BFI)

·       Virginia Haworth-Galt (Chief Executive, Learning on Screen/BUFVC)

·       Simon Coward (Research Manager, Kaleidoscope)

·       Jamie Medhurst (Reader in Media History, Aberystwyth University)

 

17.15 -18.45

Reception and launch of the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London (with James Quinn, Commissioning Editor, Sky and Kate Maddigan, former Commissioning Editor ITV).

 

For further information about the day, contact john.hill@rhul.ac.uk or Stephanie.Janes@rhul.ac.uk

For further information on the AHRC-funded Forgotten Television Drama research project, see https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mediaarts/research/thehistoryofforgottentelevisiondrama/historyofforgottentvdrama.aspx