

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Aurore Spiers - "Archiving the Past" - Allyson Nadia Field
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Aurore Spiers will discuss "Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927-1978." She will be joined in conversation by Allyson Nadia Field. A Q&amp;A and signing will follow the discussion. 

At the Co-op.

About the book: "Archiving the Past" uncovers the story of the women in France who, from the 1920s to the 1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history: as archivists charged with collecting films and other materials, as witnesses tasked with remembering their own film careers, and as activists committed to recovering women's contributions to film history. Reflecting on how gender politics informs the production of film history, Aurore Spiers recasts the film archive as a site of women's intervention, modeling strategies for inclusivity, recuperation, and liberation within feminist film historiography.

About the author: Aurore Spiers is a film and media historian whose scholarship and teaching focus on women filmmakers, feminist film historiography, and the archive. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the College of Performance, Visualization &amp; Fine Arts and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Texas A&amp;M University. She received her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago in 2022. "Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978" (University of California Press, 2026) is her first book.

About the interlocutor: Allyson Nadia Field is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of "Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film &amp; The Possibility of Black Modernity" (Duke University Press, 2015) and "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss that Changed Film History" (University of California Press, 2026).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/aurore-spiers-archiving-the-past-allyson-nadia-field/200029649461049
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, art, literary-art, womens-history-month, nonprofit, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637
- **lat**: 41.7902
- **long**: -87.59611
- **full address**: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: The Seminary Co-op Bookstores (https://allevents.in/org/the-seminary-co-op-bookstores/1891600)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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