Call for Papers for a 40th Anniversary Issue of Archivaria (Fall 2015) Archivaria Anniversary Issue: To Understand Ourselves In 1953, the Archives Section of the Canadian Historical Association was born. A decade later, Hugh Dempsey, the first editor of The Canadian Archivist, argued that “the Archives Section feels it would perform a useful service by […]
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New publication: Uncertain Curature
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Uncertain Curature: In and Out of the Archive is a new collection edited by Pippa Skotnes and Carolyn Hamilton from the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town, SA. “Uncertain Curature explores the archive – the past, our material inheritance – in the context of postcolonial world of South Africa. These engagements with the past […]
New publication: Spontaneous Particulars – The Telepathy of Archives
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A new work by distinguished American poet Susan Howe will be published this month as a New Directions and Christine Burgin co-publication. Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives continues Howe’s engagement with the materiality of archived manuscripts. From the New Drections website: “Great America writers William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Hannah Edwards Wetmore, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, […]
ARCHIVES 2.0: EMERGING RESEARCHER PANEL
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Archives 2.0 – Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future is the title of an international conference that will take place at the National Media Museum (Bradford – UK) on 25 and 26 of November 2014. Due the great amount of interesting proposals we’ve received, we have decided to organise a pre-conference event which will include three […]
Public lecture: Feminism’s Archive
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Part of the ANU Gender Institute 2014 Public Lecture Series Feminist Theory Now Presenter: Associate Professor Maryanne Dever Event date: Wednesday, 24 September 2014 – 5:30pm to 7:00pm Venue: Seminar Room 1 (3.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building (Bld 120), Australian National University, Canberra Abstract: Where is feminism’s archive? The approaches to research that defined feminist […]
It takes 4500 pages to analyse and archive one second of Twitter
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From an article on http://www.fastcodesign.com/ “How best to physically archive our digital lives seems an insurmountable task, and previous attempts to do so–like this plan to print out Wikipedia as a 1-million-page book–downright quixotic. But Philip Adrian‘s #oneSecond benefits from a far more limited scope: printing out every message sent on Twitter at a given […]
UK National Archives Academic Open Day 15 October 2014
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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 […]
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 […]
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