Dr. Leilane Menezes Rodrigues is working on the project Our TV, Our Memory: Recovering the Lost Archive of ‘TV da Gente’ and its Significance for Black Representation in Brazilian Media. She explores the “archival remains” of TV da Gente, which served as Brazil’s only Black-owned public television station between 2005-2007. Her research studies media ownership in Brazil in relation to racial inequalities and builds upon oral history interviews and an archival survey mapping the extant materials on the defunct TV station across collections of Brazilian audiovisual archives and online digital repositories.

Dr. Pablo Pietras is working on the project Images Before Disappearance. Camera Rushes from Canal 9 News and the Archival Documentation of Argentina’s Disappeared (1972–1983). For his research, he collaborates with Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in Buenos Aires, which holds a “collection of television news footage from Canal 9, consisting of approximately 16,000 film reels produced between 1972 and 1983, mainly in 16mm format.” Dr. Pietras’ project explores the archival value of camera rushes in fostering public memory at a time when Argentina marks the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup.