AMIA 2024

The Archiving Television panel brings together a selection of the authors from the forthcoming anthology, currently in production (University of Georgia Press, Spring 2025). The authors will provide a cross-section of the volume, which provides new interventions, shedding light on contemporary understandings and practices of the archiving of televisual material. Cases on the panel drawn from subject areas including instructional (classroom) television, reviving from within collections, campus television, and the formation of the remarkably complete Peabody awards archives. “Archiving Television critically engages and evaluates the archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material. The overarching intent of this anthology is to interrogate where television as historical material “lives.” To do so, we bring together scholarship by academics, archivists, and practitioners to reflect on the processes and places that confer television with historical value.” -Lauren Bratslavsky, Introduction.