RHN 48/2022 | Call
Editorial Board: Juri Auderset, University of Bern/Archives of Rural History, Bern; Sven Lefèvre, Centrum Agrarische Geschiedenis, Leuven; Peter Moser, Archives of Rural History, Bern; Brigitte Semanek, Institute of Rural History, St. Pölten; Andreas Wigger, Archives of Rural History, Bern
No submission deadline, proposals are welcome at any time.
Call for Proposals for a New Series:
Video Essays in Rural History
The aim of the series Video Essays in Rural History is to communicate knowledge gained from historical research based on written and audio-visual sources in the form of video essays. It intends to stimulate interdisciplinary exchange and to encourage scholarly cross-fertilisation that is crucial for understanding the past and present of rural societies.
The series Video Essays in Rural History is part of a wider research and archival infrastructure of the Archives of Rural History (ARH) and the European Rural History Film Association (ERHFA), which consists namely of a Database and an Online Portal.
What is a video essay in rural history?
A video essay in rural history is an independent form of communicating historical knowledge on all matters relating to rural history broadly understood. It adds new dimensions to a specific historical insight and advances a thesis or argument by using the potentials and possibilities of visual sources and moving images. Since the format of a video essay is not meant to replace, but to complement and amend written texts, each video essay in this series is accompanied by a written abstract, the script, references and additional information on the topic and indications for further reading. The video essay and the written document are published simultaneously online.
Submission of Proposals
Proposals for new video essays are welcome, they are to be sent to the Editorial Board. Proposals should be between 300 and 400 words long. They include a brief description a) of the topic, b) the sources to be analysed and used and c) biographical information on the author(s). If the Editorial Board accepts the proposal in principle, the author(s) are invited to produce the video essay.
Contact: info@ruralfilms.eu
More information and the first video essay published in this series – “Working Animals” by Peter Moser and Andreas Wigger – can be found at our website: https://ruralfilms.eu/video-essays/