“Digitisation will also inevitably change the way we do research. Many researchers in archives will tell you how they like to touch an old photograph or pore through old newspapers to get the feel, the smell, the weight. They are not saying that because they are sentimentalists but experience has told them how our senses […]
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Conference CFP: Archives for the Future
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ARCHIVES FOR THE FUTURE: An Art and Visual Culture Conference Saturday 29 March 2014, University of Westminster (309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW). The conference is organised by Mnemoscape (Elisa Adami and Alessandra Ferrini) with the support of the University of Westminster, the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture and The International Association for Visual […]
Conference Call 2014 Archives and Records Association UK & Ireland
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‘Survival of the Fittest: strengths, skills and priorities for 2014 and beyond’ This century has seen rapid changes in how we create, use, disseminate and access information. Increased interactions between states, organisations and societies have raised questions about the creation, recording and control of information. Individuals and communities are remembering and communicating in different ways […]
Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings
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Previously published as a limited edition artist’s book, Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings is a colour facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s writings on envelopes. Compiled by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin (with a preface by Susan Howe), this striking volume raises all manner of questions about archival scraps, paper and materiality. Published by Christine Burgin/New Directions in […]
Germaine Greer donates her papers
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Germaine Greer has announced that she is donating her papers to the University of Melbourne. The archive extends to 150 filing cabinet drawers and will be transferred from the UK to Melbourne in July 2014. “Archives are the pay dirt of history,” Greer said recently. “Everything else is opinion. At a certain point you actually […]
The inbox and the shoebox
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The inbox and the shoebox ‘He makes the point that between “the inbox and the shoebox”, only one will be “treasured, hoarded, moved when we move or forgotten to be found afterwards … Emails are a poke, but letters are a caress and letters stick around to be newly discovered.”’ Andrew Hill reviewing To the […]
Dunhuang: A secret library, digitally excavated
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Dunhuang: A secret library, digitally excavated Just over a thousand years ago, someone sealed up a chamber in a cave outside the oasis town of Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in western China. The chamber was filled with more than five hundred cubic feet of bundled manuscripts. They sat there, hidden, for […]
Unconventional Archives
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Unconventional Archives – Literature and the Uses of History, 17-18 January 2014 This two-day workshop will held at Ertegun House, Oxford. The aim of the workshop is to draw together students and scholars of the late 19th nineteenth century to the present, in order to explore how our understanding of substantial categories in the history […]
The Pop-up Workshops
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The Pop-up Workshops We are launching a new network initiative: the archivefutures Pop-up workshops. Read about them and think about offering to convene a pop-up!
CFP: Convergence: Special themed issue – Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices
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Convergence: Special themed issue Vol 21, no 1 (February 2015) Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices Guest Editors: Sarah Atkinson and Sarah Whatley This special issue aims to bring together researchers, artists, professionals and practitioners from the field of digital archives and the archiving of practice with an emphasis upon Art, Design, Media, Film and Performing […]
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