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 […]
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CFP: Forbidden Access: Censoring Books and Archives
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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 […]
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.
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 and Libraries Reimagined
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Archives and Libraries Reimagined by creative artists. From the Glasgow School of Art.
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.
Photo tales lost in the digital wave
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“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 […]
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 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!
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