The National Archives will be holding an Academic Open Day on Wednesday, October 15th, 2014. This event is designed to illuminate the research activities undertaken at the Archives, whilst encouraging networking and discussion with the wider academic community. As the official archive and publisher for the UK government, and for England and Wales, we are […]
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The Digital Life of Salman Rushdie
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Dan Rockmore in The New Yorker for 29 July 2014: “In 2006, the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), at Emory University, acquired the archive of Salman Rushdie. The collection included the usual papers and letters along with a trove of Rushdie’s digital materials, including his personal computers (one desktop and three laptops, as well […]
CFP: Fashion Research Now: Archives
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Fashion Research Now: Archives CALL FOR PAPERS The inaugural issue of Fashion Research Now reflects the aims of the Fashion Research Network: presenting critical, innovative and interdisciplinary research on fashion and dress. It will provide a space for early career researchers and PhD students to publish current and innovative research. Submissions are […]
CFP: Archives on Fire
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Call for Papers RECONSTRUCTION: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org/ Volume 16.1 (2016) ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields Archives today are on fire–energized and endangered, mobile and mutable, ubiquitous and unique–as the library’s form and function in society undergo significant changes. Digital tools, open-access platforms, and social networks are transforming the fields […]
CFP: Failure in the Archives
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The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) is pleased to announce Failure in the Archives, a conference celebrating the frustrations of archival research, to be held on 30 October 2014 and featuring a keynote address by Natalie Zemon Davis. Failure in the Archives will provide a forum to examine everything that doesn’t belong […]
New publications on Paper
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Two 2014 titles of interest from Duke University Press: Kristen Weld’s Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. “In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala’s secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. […]
On the subject of archives
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A special issue of E-Misferica (Volume 9 | Issues 1 and 2 | Summer 2012) “On the subject of archives“. Edited by Marianne Hirsch and Diana Taylor. Already out for a while but still worth a read. Highlights include: Dossier: Archival Acts — a section on archival activism.
Perversions of Paper — Update
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The original call for papers for this event generated such interest that there are now two linked events taking place under the banner of Perversions of Paper. The first is an invitational workshop on Friday 20 June 2014 and approaches the themes specifically from the perspective of contemporary arts and creative practice. […]
Pop-up Workshop: Sex + Gender + Archive
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Friday 9 May 2014 13:00 – 17:00 Venue: University of Tampere, Linna Building, Kalevantie 5, room 6031 How do new debates concerning sex and gender reframe what we do in and with archives? Are our understandings of evidence shifting? What does it mean to take archives and archiving as the subjects of our […]
CFP: LETTERS — MAKING AND MEANINGS
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Friday 27 June 2014 Venue: Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London
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