6-7 November 2014, Senate House, University of London A collaboration between the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Senate House Library. ‘Forbidden Access’ is a multidisciplinary conference exploring how published works and archival materials and the ideas contained in them are affected, obscured or distorted by censorship. The […]
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Pop-Up Workshop: Document and Contract
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Kent Centre for Law Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent, 3 April 2014. A workshop examining questions of materiality, method, endurance and transformation with respect to the document and/or the contract. Details here. This is an Archive Futures event.
Redundant Catalogue Cards
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Part of a current exhibition on ‘knowledge in motion’ in the Octagon Gallery at the Main Library, University College London. COLLECTING- KNOWLEDGE IN MOTION An exhibition curated by Claire Dwyer (Geography), Margot Finn (History), Stefanie Van Gemert (Dutch), Kate Smith (History) and Ulrich Tiedau (Dutch). Collections, like Universities, are factories of knowledge. Institutionally, they often […]
CFP Musical Materialities
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Musical Materialities in the Digital Age, 27-28 June 2014, University of Sussex Music, while summoning notions of intangibility, transience and loss, is also associated with material objects that serve to ground the musical, make the transient permanent and defer loss. Unearthing music’s association with materiality reveals a fascinating array of artefacts, including instruments, scores, transcribing […]
Archives for the Future: Programme
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Mnemoscape has announced the full programme of speakers for their Archives for the Future conference. An Art and Visual Culture Conference Saturday 29 March 2014 Fyvie Hall, The University of Westminster 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW The conference is free of charge. Registration is now open and it will close on the 25th of March […]
Archives and Libraries Reimagined
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Archives and Libraries Reimagined by creative artists. From the Glasgow School of Art.
In the Sontag Archives
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“Susan Sontag wrote seventeen thousand one hundred and ninety-eight e-mails, which will soon be available for consultation on a special laptop. I was given a special viewing at the library, and the experience gave me a queasiness that I have never felt during the years I have conducted historical research.” Benjamin Moser, In the Sontag Archives, The […]
The Allure of the Archives
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At long last there is an English translation of Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive. Yale University Press has published a translation by Thomas Scott-Railton entitled The Allure of the Archives which also has a foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis. More information here.
Perversions of Paper
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A one day symposium jointly organised by the Birkbeck Material Texts Network and Archive Futures on Saturday 28th June 2014. The call for papers can be found under Events.
CFP: Digital Memories: 5th Global Conference
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24-26 September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, UK This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environments, and how the systems used for […]
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