Programme of the seminar ACTIVATE “Alternative media and digital activism: what documents to collect, for whom and with whom ?” 8 juin 2026 at la Contemporaine
ACTIVATE WP#4 hybrid seminar
La Contemporaine
184, cours Nicole Dreyfus
92 000 Nanterre
The seminar is co-organised by University of Lausanne, Blinken OSA Archivum and la Contemporaine.
The hybrid seminar will take place in English.
9:30 Welcome
9:45- 10:15 Opening remarks and introduction
Xavier Sené, La Contemporaine
François Vallotton, Université de Lausanne: Presentation of Activate project and workpackage 4 « Alternative media and digital activism »
Wilfried Muller, La Contemporaine « La Contemporaine: Tracing a Century of Alternative Movements »
10:15 – 12:15 Counter-archiving
Chair : René Pigier, La Contemporaine
Estéfani Bouza, Swansea College of Art : « Format Photographic Agency and Greenham Common: A Case Study »
Marianne Enckell, CIRA, « Outlaw archives ? »
Cristina Pedersoli, Fondazione Home Movies, « Piadena’s Films. Microhistory of a community-based film documentation experience »
Open discussion
12:15- 12:45
Virág Bogyó, « Do You Dare to Play? Play and Democracy in East Berlin – Research & Exhibition »
12:45-14:30 BREAK LUNCH
14:30-16:30 What should be retained and for what purposes ?
Chair: François Vallotton, Université de Lausanne
Agnese Ghezzi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, « Designing a Framework for Critical Archiving in a Multilingual Borderland »
Léonie Wolters, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, « Public Relations and the Archive in the Ephemeral Legacies of Alternative News Agencies Inter Press Service (1964) and Gemini News (1967–2002) »
Lasha Salamashvili, Invited Lecturer at Ilia State University, « From Visual Protest to Archival Memory: Media Change and Collective Memory in Georgia (1989–2024) »
16:30 Conclusion
François Vallotton, Oksana Sarkisova, Blinken OSA Archivum
To participate: please register at elise.lehoux@lacontemporaine.fr
The link will be sent before the beginning of the seminar
Organizing Committee:
Elise Lehoux (la Contemporaine)
Wilfried Muller (la Contemporaine)
René Pigier (la Contemporaine)
Oksana Sarkisova (Blinken OSA Archivum – CEU)
François Vallotton (Université de Lausanne – UNIL)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2023 research and innovating programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101182859
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LC Admin (28 mai 2026). Programme of the seminar ACTIVATE “Alternative media and digital activism: what documents to collect, for whom and with whom ?” 8 juin 2026 at la Contemporaine. La Contemporaine : bibliothèque, archives, musée des mondes contemporains. Consulté le 7 octobre 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/16act
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